The 10-Second Version (AI Summary)
What happened: AutoIndustry.ai launches AI for Dealers, a podcast hosted by Barnes Crossing Auto Group's Daniel Kim, on Monday, Nov. 9.
Why it matters: Each episode puts a working dealer on screen walking through a real AI workflow and how they measure it.
What to do: Pick one task your team already does well, and get your data in order before you try to automate it.
AI-generated and reviewed by the ASOTU team.
On our team, we never hand AI a task we haven't done many times ourselves.
We automate a process only after we've worked it with the tool long enough to agree on exactly what we're trying to automate. Every task we shorten frees up time to explore a new idea. That idea eventually becomes its own process, and then we shorten that one too. An LLM is a ship. Somebody still has to be the explorer.
Daniel Kim is one of those explorers, and he joined Kyle on today's episode to introduce a show built for dealers who are charting the same waters.
What is the AI for Dealers podcast?
AI for Dealers is AutoIndustry.ai's new podcast, and it launches Monday, Nov. 9. Daniel hosts it and also serves as Director of Operations at Barnes Crossing Auto Group, so the show comes from inside a working dealer group. Each episode features a dealer walking through a real AI tool or workflow, often on screen, along with how they measure the results.
Upcoming guest | Dealer group | What to know |
|---|---|---|
Jim Kosobucki | Morgan Auto Group | Chief of Data & AI; his team automated about 75 reports and KPI emails, saving hundreds of hours a month |
Grant Mullinax and Kate Howell | Mullinax Auto Group | Among the first wave of guests |
Dustin Schuler | Bud Clary Auto Group | Among the first wave of guests |
Daniel helped launch two auto tech startups without ever being a developer. He says AI has pulled down that barrier, and the last nine months have been "a wild ride." The show started as a pitch to Kyle at a conference only about two months ago.
"[A]s I went to all these conferences, I was like, 'Wow, there's so many of us out there, just hiding in the dark corners, trying to figure things out together.'"
Daniel Kim, host of AI for Dealers
Where should a dealership start with AI?
Daniel's answer is setup. You train for a marathon before you try to run a fast one, and AI works the same way. The first step is building data infrastructure that gives AI the context to understand your business. Everything else comes after that.
"If you really want to make it effective, it's all about the setup."
The show's job is to walk dealers from treating AI as a glorified search bar toward building their own workflows. Not every listener needs to become a builder, and that's fine. What matters is the pace of change. At ASOTU CON 2025, Steve Greenfield predicted a wave of people across the industry building software through vibe coding. Today, being six months ahead of that wave puts a store wildly ahead of the curve.
The dealers on this show charted their own routes before they let the tools carry the load. That order matters.
The first episode of AI for Dealers drops Monday, Nov. 9.
Find it on any podcast platform. Daniel and Kyle walk through it in full on today's ASOTU episode, including how Daniel went from searching to building and why he thinks AI has become a creative outlet for the hustlers in this industry.
