The team.
Through their cars.
AI experts meet automotive veterans.
CEO
Porsche 911
Classic, fast, zero fluff
COO
Land Rover
Things should just work
CTO
BMW M3 E46
Balanced and responsive
CRO
Cadillac Escalade V
Big presence, big moves
Design
Ferrari F355
Form meets function
Engineering
Honda Civic Type R
High-revving, efficient
Why this team
DealSmart AI was founded by people who spent years inside dealerships and saw the same problems repeated everywhere: leads going unanswered, compliance violations from manual processes, and BDC teams burning out from repetitive follow-ups that could be automated.
We combine deep automotive retail experience with world-class AI engineering. Our team has built products used by millions, scaled enterprise software companies, and most importantly, understands the daily reality of running a dealership. We are not building AI for the sake of AI. We are building the operating system that lets dealers focus on what they do best: selling and servicing cars.
Every member of our team is a car enthusiast. We believe that building great automotive technology requires genuine passion for the industry, not just technical skill. That is why we describe ourselves through the cars we drive. It says more about how we think than any resume ever could.
Our Mission
DealSmart AI was founded with a single conviction: automotive retail is broken, and the people working in it deserve better tools. Every day, talented dealership staff burn out chasing leads that should have been handled automatically, responding to voicemails that arrived hours ago, and manually enforcing compliance rules that should be baked into the system. We are building the technology that frees them to do what they do best: sell cars and build relationships.
Our team brings together expertise in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, automotive retail operations, and enterprise compliance. We have spent years inside dealerships understanding the actual workflows, not just the theoretical ones, and we have built Max to handle the reality of how dealers actually work. The result is an autonomous agent that integrates seamlessly with existing CRM platforms and requires no changes to current operations.
We are a small, focused team that moves fast and ships constantly. We believe the best products come from people who deeply understand the problem they are solving, which is why we spend as much time in dealerships as we do writing code. If that sounds like the kind of company you want to build, we would love to hear from you.