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Built and run by dealership operators

AI for the people
who run automotive retail.

AI Assist builds intelligent technology that enhances human capability. Every product the company builds keeps the human at the helm, not just in the loop. The system advises. The person decides.

AiF&I · Offense The AiF&I working dashboard: PVR trend, active deal queue, and the Deal Architect agent.
Argus360 · Defense An Argus360 report card: a graded, sourced account of what the store said and did.
Dealer Brain · Integrated Context Engine The Dealer Brain integrated context engine: live data sources feeding the five AiF&I agents.
Customer Advocate The Customer Advocate running on a dealership tablet, presenting to the customer while the F&I manager supervises.
Product concepts. Design partner build in progress.
01The idea

Serious AI, placed behind the people already doing the work.

A dealership is not a website. It is a sales floor, a service lane, a phone bank, and an F&I office, all run by people working under real pressure. Most AI pitches land in that world with the wrong instinct: cut the people, or wait the technology out. Both misread how the work actually gets done.

AI Assist exists to build the third path. AiF&I is built to work as a pit crew for the F&I professional rather than a kiosk that replaces one. Argus360 is built to put evidence in front of a dealer principal and let the principal decide what to do with it. The technology does the heavy lifting, and the person steers.

The pit crew does not replace the driver. It makes the driver faster.

Across the portfolio, that is the whole idea
02The four principles

The design constraint every product starts from.

01

Human at the helm

A person makes the final call in every product we build. The tools exist to make that call easier to get right.

02

Amplify, don't replace

We measure success by what our users accomplish, not by what they no longer do. The pit crew makes the driver faster. It does not take the wheel.

03

Elevate always

Every release should leave its user more capable, more confident, and prouder of the work. If a feature diminishes the person, it does not ship.

04

Prove it

Claims carry evidence. Numbers carry sources. The habit runs through the family, from the pitch deck to the report card.

04Why automotive retail, and why now

Real money on one side.
Real enforcement on the other.

$2,534
F&I gross per vehicle retailed
Publicly traded U.S. dealer groups, up 5.2 percent year over year. Source: Haig Partners, Q3 2025. The all-dealer average runs $1,700 to $1,900 (JM&A Group and StoneEagle).
97
FTC warning letters to dealerships in a single day
Source: Federal Trade Commission, March 13, 2026. Identical letters carrying no individualized findings. A letter is not a finding of wrongdoing.
$20M
Largest monetary judgment the FTC has secured against an auto dealer
Leader Automotive Group and parent AutoCanada. Source: Federal Trade Commission and Illinois Attorney General, announced December 19, 2024.

The F&I office earns a large share of dealership profit, and regulators are now examining how that money is made. AiF&I is designed to help professionals earn it well. Argus360 is designed to help principals prove it was earned honestly.