Your AI confirms the service booking on WhatsApp.
It books the slot, drafts the customer-facing explanation of the job, and watches parts stock against upcoming bookings. Self-hosted DMS removes the per-user monthly fee that hits every role on the floor.
What your AI would do in Automotive.
Concrete jobs an AI operating system set up around your business could take on, including the ones that catch a problem before it lands on your desk.
01
Answers service booking requests and confirms the slot without a call.
02
Reads a job card and drafts the customer-facing explanation of what was done and why.
03
Watches parts stock against upcoming bookings and flags what to order before the car arrives.
04
Flags a customer's service interval coming due and reaches out before the warranty lapses.
45%.
of US vehicle owners are dissatisfied with their dealership service experience, mainly over unexpected costs and poor communication
What your AI does about it:
It drafts the customer-facing explanation of what was done and why from the job card, and confirms service slots without a call.
Imagine it. Here it is.
See it work.
A short, fictional scenario. Watch the AI handle it end to end.
R 4.57M
Typical annual licence spend
Across 6 common automotive tools
R 4.11M
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
3
Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The automotive stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical automotive firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Automotive stack
6 tools · R 4.57M/yr in licences
Replace
CDK Global
DMS / Dealer Management · R 2.66M per year
With
Dolibarr Auto / Odoo Fleet
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 2.40M
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 4.57M
Estimated OSS hosting
R 457K
Annual savings
R 4.11M
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where automotive time and money leak
What we hear on every automotive discovery call.
Service bookings still tying up a phone line
Booking and confirming a service slot by phone ties up the desk. An AI confirms it on WhatsApp and only calls when something needs a person.
DMS monthly per-user pricing is punishing
Dealership DMS often starts at R3k per user per month, brutal for an SME dealer across floor, finance and admin.
Service history trapped in vendor software
Decades of service records sit on a DMS with a renewal hammer. Migrating means losing history unless you plan for it.
How we handle the automotive edges
The sector-specific things we get right.
Now it's real.
Four things stay true, whatever we build for you.
Your hardware or ours
On your server, on ours, or on a machine in your office running an open model. Your call.
A person approves what matters
Payments, deletions and anything going to a client wait for a yes from you or someone you choose.
Every action logged
You can see what it read, what it did and why, for every task.
Built with POPIA in mind
We set it up the way we set up any system that handles personal information, with the same care our compliance work gets.
Questions people ask
Does the AI quote a price without a mechanic looking at the car?
No, it books and confirms the slot. Any diagnosis or pricing still comes from your workshop.
How does this help with FICA for large transactions?
Self-hosted keeps the customer file and proof-of-compliance on your own server, ready for a FICA audit.
Can it still pull real-time parts availability?
Yes, we integrate the same parts-catalogue APIs your current DMS uses, without the premium-tier gate.
Will we lose service history moving off our current DMS?
No, we migrate service records first so history follows the customer, not the vendor.