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Auto CollabsAuthor: More Than Cars Media Network
Collaboration through connection.Hosted by Paul J Daly, Kyle Mountsier, and Michael Cirillo, Auto Collabs is your connect point to the human side of the retail automotive industry: what motivates its leaders, how they navigate change, and what keeps them pushing forward. Its beyond-the-business-card conversations with real people powering dealerships, technology platforms, and everything in between.From the team behind the More Than Cars movement, this podcast is built on one big belief: thriving people create thriving businesses. With candid conversations, industry insight, and just enough unfiltered banter to keep things interesting, Auto Collabs delivers authentic stories that inspire real collaboration. // Auto Collabs is produced by Automotive State of the Union (ASOTU). Learn more at https://www.asotu.com Language: en-us Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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AI Isn’t a Bolt-On Anymore And Dealers Are Running Out of Time
Thursday, 9 April, 2026
Send us Fan MailAutomotive spent years patching old systems together and now AI is forcing the industry to confront what should have been rebuilt a long time ago.Misty Tippets of Podium joins the show with a perspective the industry badly needs: one foot in modern SaaS, the other in the reality of retail automotive. With a background in agency work, Salesforce implementations, and enterprise tech, she brings an outsider’s clarity to one of the biggest questions dealers are facing right now: why does adopting new technology still feel so messy, expensive, and fragmented?This conversation quickly moves past the usual AI hype and gets to the deeper issue underneath it: infrastructure. Misty breaks down why bolt-on AI tools are already falling behind, why month-to-month vendor culture may be doing more harm than good, and why fixed ops could be the biggest overlooked opportunity in the market right now. It’s a sharp conversation about contracts, data, operational discipline, and the narrow window dealers still have to leap back to the front of the pack.Timestamped Takeaways0:00 AI Moved Fast Dealers Went From “Maybe” to “We Have No Choice”2:22 Why Misty’s Tech Background Made Automotive’s Systems Gap Impossible to Ignore4:24 What Salesforce Implementations Reveal About How Underbuilt Auto Tech Really Is6:01 Dealers Don’t Actually Want Salesforce, They Want Modern Systems That Finally Fit 20267:35 Automotive May Be Years Behind on the Data Foundation It Needs9:47 The Bolt-On AI Era Is Ending Faster Than Most Vendors Want to Admit12:04 COVID Gave Other Industries a Reason to Rebuild Automotive Mostly Kept Selling Cars13:49 Fast Onboarding Sounds Great But Some Tools Should Take 90 Days to Get Right14:39 Month-to-Month Contracts Might Feel Safe But They Can Quietly Kill Real Partnership18:46 The Vendors Winning Trust Aren’t Selling from a Distance They’re Sitting Inside Dealerships20:20 This Isn’t Really an AI Conversation It’s a Technology Reckoning the Industry Delayed Too Long21:23 The Biggest AI Opportunity in Auto May Be Fixed Ops Not the Sales FloorConnect with Misty Tippets at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mistytippets/Learn more about Podium at https://www.podium.com/⭐️ Love the podcast? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your LinkedIn or Instagram handle so we can thank you personally! We have a daily email! https://www.asotu.com✉️ Sign up for our free and fun-to-read daily email for a quick shot of relevant news in automotive retail, media, and pop culture.🎧 Like and follow our other podcasts: Automotive State of the UnionASOTU CON Sessions
