Dealers on Tekion’s Automotive Retail Cloud can now connect Trade Agent AI directly to their DMS and acquire more used cars from the customers they already have.
Trade Agent AI, inride’s autonomous used car acquisition platform, is now officially integrated with Tekion. Dealers running Tekion’s Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) can connect Trade Agent AI to their DMS and put it to work on the past buyers already sitting in it. Setup is handled by inride’s engineers, so there is nothing for the store to configure.
Your DMS Already Knows Who Is Ready to Trade
Dealers are paying record prices for used inventory at auction while thousands of past buyers sit in their DMS, many of them driving a vehicle the store would gladly buy back. Finding the right ones means working through the whole customer base and following up with each person individually. No BDC has the hours to do that at scale.
How the Integration Works
Trade Agent AI draws on the customer and vehicle records in the dealer’s Tekion DMS to find the past buyers who are ready to trade. It reaches out by text, delivers real-time vehicle values, answers questions, and works through objections in natural back-and-forth conversation. It follows up over days, weeks, or months until the customer is ready, then books the trade-in appointment and hands it to the sales team with the full conversation and customer context, ready to close.
Built to Support Your BDC, Not Replace It
The BDC stays focused on the leads in front of it today. Trade Agent AI works the past buyers your BDC can’t reach, around the clock, and turns them into warm trade-in appointments. Your team gets better deals to close.
Proven Across 75+ Rooftops
Trade Agent AI runs on more than 75 rooftops and has handled more than one million text conversations with car owners about selling or trading their vehicles. It re-engages past buyers at response rates of 20 to 32 percent, well above the 3 to 6 percent norm for conquest outreach. The Tekion integration joins Trade Agent AI’s existing Fortellis Marketplace certification for CDK dealers and its integration with ACV’s ClearCar.
“Tekion dealers already run one of the most modern platforms in the industry. What most of them still don’t have is someone working every past buyer about their next trade. Trade Agent AI now works directly from their Tekion DMS, finds the customers who are ready to trade, and books the appointment. The team gets better deals to close, and the dealer buys more cars from their own customers instead of at auction,” said Nick Perdikis, CEO of inride.
To see how Trade Agent AI acquires used cars directly from the past buyers in your Tekion DMS, book a demo at inride.ai/get-started or see how it works.
