Dealer Decision Intelligence

The operating system for dealership growth.

An AI decision intelligence platform that tells dealerships the highest-value action to take next — then activates it across signage, web, email, CRM, and paid media.

Now in product discovery with franchised dealers and dealer groups.

$1.3T+
2025 U.S. franchised light-vehicle dealership sales
16,990
U.S. franchised light-vehicle dealers in 2025
276M+
Repair orders written by dealerships in 2025
$164B+
2025 service and parts sales

Source: NADA Data 2025 Full-Year Report

The Insight

Dealerships don't have a data problem.
They have a decision problem.

Every rooftop is already data-rich. The decision layer is still human memory, vendor advice, and dashboards. Apollo turns disconnected dealership data into ranked, executable growth decisions.

The old stack tells dealers what happened.
Apollo tells them what to do next.
The Category

Dealer Decision Intelligence

A new intelligence layer that sits above core operations — and ranks the next best action:

  • DMS & CRM
  • Sales & Service
  • Inventory & Merchandising
  • Marketing & Media Systems
  • In-Store Signage & Audio
What Apollo Can Do

Not another dashboard.
A reasoning layer that connects signals to executable growth actions.

Apollo reads the dealership as a system. The value comes from combining signals your vendors see only in isolation — then acting on them.

1

Ranked next-best actions

"Here are the 3 highest-value actions to take today, why they matter, how to execute them, and how we will measure the result." Every recommendation ships with rationale, confidence, and a measurement plan.

2

Inventory pressure → action plans

Apollo detects aging units, turn-rate drift, and floorplan pressure — then recommends the best combination of in-store, CRM, web, and paid actions to move the metal that matters today.

3

Fixed ops capacity capture

Links technician capacity, RO history, and under-contacted owners to launch retention offers across signage, email, and advisor outreach — and measures appointments, RO value, and retention lift.

4

Marketing spend, best-bet allocation

Budget shifts toward the channels with the highest expected outcome for the current condition of your store — not habit, not vendor advice, not last year's mix.

5

In-store activation

Digital signage is Apollo's first actuator — already installed, no media buy, measurable. We don't replace your CMS. We tell your CMS what should happen next.

6

Closed-loop learning

Every executed action becomes an outcome-labeled decision. Apollo learns which actions produce which outcomes at dealerships with similar profiles — and gets sharper with every rooftop.

How Apollo Thinks

Signals → Opportunity Graph → Scored Actions → Execution

A decision engine, not a rules engine. Rules are inputs. Ranked opportunities are the product. Every customer, VIN, repair order, campaign, lead, vehicle, and channel becomes part of a living graph of dealership opportunity.

Business Signals

DMS / CRM / Service / Inventory

Opportunity Graph

Customers + vehicles + events

Decision Engine

Forecast + score + constrain

Action Layer

Signage / web / CRM / media
Output: "Here are the 3 highest-value actions to take today, why they matter, how to execute them, and how we will measure the result."

Recommend

rank + explain

Approve

human control

Execute

activate channels

Apollo does not start by "taking over."
It starts by making the best decision obvious.

Why It Matters

Dealership decisions are expensive, daily, and mostly intuition-driven.

Dealers spend to "try combinations" without knowing the best bet. The timing is right for a dealership intelligence layer — and every auto tech vendor knows it.

1

Margin pressure

Higher rates, inventory shifts, incentive volatility, and cost discipline increase the value of better decisions.

2

System fragmentation

DMS, CRM, OEM, website, inventory, service, and media tools still produce siloed views.

3

AI readiness

Modern AI can reason across messy systems and translate dealer goals into rules, explanations, experiments, and actions.

4

Execution channels

Digital signage, email, web, CRM, and paid media are already controllable endpoints.

Existing vendors manage systems.
Apollo manages decisions.

Vendor CategoryPrimary JobDecision Intelligence?
DMSSystem of recordNo
CRMLead workflowPartial
Marketing agencyCampaign executionNo
Signage CMSContent playbackNo
Analytics dashboardReportingBackward-looking
ApolloNext-best actionYes

Apollo sits above the stack rather than replacing it. Partner-first with your CMS, CRM, and DMS.

Use Cases

From signal to decision to measured result.

Illustrative scenarios from the product vision. The value is not "play a truck ad." It is knowing trucks are the best bet today.

Use Case 1 · Inventory

Inventory pressure → ranked action plan

Detected signals
  • 62 Silverado units on the ground
  • 87 avg. days in stock
  • Floorplan pressure rising
Apollo recommends
  • Promote aging truck inventory in-store
  • Retarget CRM truck intenders
  • Shift budget away from low-yield channels
  • Measure unit velocity and lead quality

The point: knowing trucks are the best bet today — before spending a dollar.

Use Case 2 · Fixed Ops

Fixed ops capacity → service revenue capture

Detected signals
  • Tech capacity available
  • RO volume softening
  • Tire sales trailing
  • 36+ month owners under-contacted
Apollo recommends
  • Launch service retention offer across signage, email, and advisor outreach

Measured: appointments, RO value, retention lift, repeat purchase path.

Use Case 3 · Marketing

Marketing spend → best-bet allocation

Before Apollo
  • Budget spread across vendors by habit
  • Attribution is partial
  • Decisions made on vendor advice
With Apollo
  • Budget shifts toward channels with the highest expected outcome for the current dealership condition

The long game: an AI assistant for dealership growth investment.

The Integration Library

Apollo speaks your stack's language.

Apollo is only as smart as the signals it can read and the channels it can activate. That's why the integration layer is the product's foundation — DMS, CRM, inventory, websites, analytics, media, and in-store endpoints.

Featured On-Ramp

CDK Fortellis Marketplace

Fortellis is CDK's open API marketplace for dealerships — it solves data access, integration, distribution, and billing in one move. It is the on-ramp to the ground-truth outcome data Apollo needs, with dealer-authorized, consent-based data sharing.

DMS / API Data AccessStandardized CDK APIs — Sales, CRM, F&I, Service, Parts at transaction level.
Billing & ProvisioningAutomated subscription billing and consent-based data sharing — no custom contracts per rooftop.
Dealer DistributionA ready-to-buy storefront in front of thousands of CDK dealers.
Trust & ConsentDealer-authorized data sharing through CDK — a credibility and compliance rail.

Dealer Management Systems

CDK GlobalReynolds & ReynoldsTekionDealertrack DMS (Cox Automotive)PBS SystemsDealerBuiltDominion VUEAuto/Mate

CRM & Lead Management

VinSolutionsEleadDriveCentricDealerSocketTekion ARCProMax

Inventory & Merchandising

vAutoHomeNetLotlinxFirstLookMAX Digital

Dealer Websites

Dealer.comDealerOnDealer InspireSincro

Analytics & Attribution

Google Analytics 4FoureyesClarivoyGoogle Search Console

Marketing & Paid Media

Google AdsMeta AdsPureCarsFullpath

In-Store Signage & Audio

Samsung VXTBrightSignLeading signage CMS platforms

Communications

Email service providersSMS platformsAdvisor outreach tools

Integration library reflects Apollo's product roadmap and discovery scope. Third-party names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners; inclusion indicates planned or in-evaluation integration scope, not partnership, certification, or endorsement.

Who We Are

Car people.

We've spent decades inside retail automotive — on the showroom floor, in the service lane, and behind the technology dealerships run on.

Retail automotive DNA

Our team helped build and scale in-dealership media serving thousands of rooftops across North America. We know how a store actually operates — sales, F&I, fixed ops, and the daily decisions in between.

Dealer technology operators

We've built, consolidated, and shipped dealer-facing platforms at scale — DMS integrations, in-store networks, and the vendor stack dealers live in every day. We sit above your stack because we've worked inside it.

AI product builders

We build AI systems with human-in-the-loop control: recommend, approve, execute. Decision intelligence that explains itself — rationale, confidence, and a measurement plan on every action.

The North Star

What is the highest-value thing this dealership should do next?

Apollo answers continuously.

We're in product discovery now — working directly with franchised dealers and dealer groups to shape what Apollo becomes. If you run a rooftop or a group, we want your input at the table.