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  • Mitch Gallant
    I feel like we'd need 3-6 months for free, minimum to make an educated decision. ;-) Jokes aside... 10 days genuinely wouldn't be...
  • joe.pistell
    Blew past my allocation of tokens: "Now using credits • Your plan limit resets Thursday at 2:50 PM." mad scientist closing in on his...
  • Chris Apostalides
    Awesome and simple tool. Thanks for posting. @Alex Snyder I would have messaged you prior to my post the other day. I thought that's...
  • craigh
    craigh replied to the thread Uncle Joe's Makeover Diary 2.0.
    This is a very dated reference - we now work from home in our basements
  • joe.pistell
    Screen shots get blocked due to your image max size. Error message: "Oops! We ran into some problems. The uploaded file is too large...
  • joe.pistell
    Casa Grande CDJR 998 sold in June... and, ZERO UI support for NEW CDJR. CVNA has a shopper to VIN For Sale ratio that NO ONE can...
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  • Alex Snyder
    Wow! The bot traffic has increased way faster than I anticipated. Yesterday afternoon we had over 16,000 visitors on the site at one...
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  • Alex Snyder
    This is pretty cool! Thank you for putting it together. I would have used it at my dealership. Also, thank you for reaching out ahead...
  • Alex Snyder
    I am beginning to find that Perplexity is better at picking my purchases than I am. This requires a lot of back-and-forth in the...
  • joe.pistell
    Carson, This is the tip of the ice berg. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted in an interview 1yr ago (below) that he was surprised by how...
  • Chris Apostalides
    You need to get in front of GM's/Dealer Principals/Owners. 95% of BDC managers cannot make the decision to pull the trigger. Start from...
  • joe.pistell
    Ryan, 100% agreed. Carvana and CarMax enjoy an incredibly tight loop of business operations and engineering, where the platform leaders...
  • Chris Apostalides
    Good morning, all. I am looking to give dealers on this forum 60-days of our trade value technology at no cost. We have developed the...
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  • Dan Sayer
    What are the terms of the trial? May have a store or two willing to test.
  • Alex Snyder
    Nice write-up! We are happy to help support your new start-up as it grows, Bennett (y)
  • craigh
    Are you also bringing in DMS data or is this mostly the metadata layer of everything your dealership is producing or working in the market?
  • ryan.leslie
    Remember when "attribution" was the buzzword of the hour? It might be time for that one to make a comeback tour. Good Stuff Mr. Stauning.
  • craigh
    We are in the data lake business as of late and I agree with all points in this thread - the first big challenge is getting ALL the data...
  • Lending Mojo
    If you’re an independent dealer looking for another strong financing source for your better-credit customers, Lending Mojo is worth a...
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  • Dan Sayer
    First step for franchise dealers is to point it out to their OEM rep if the competitor is a like make. I know for Ford, when they see...
  • joe.pistell
    joe.pistell replied to the thread AI = Awesome Intelligence.
    This video is how AI Engineering burns up 100's of hours in 2026: Mega AI power users will relate to this, it has a nickname: YAK...
  • craigh
    craigh replied to the thread Website Trade-In / Purchase Tool.
    The more I play with these tools, the more I believe in the Chamath pitch that AI is essentially acting as the best co-founder for every...
  • craigh
    craigh replied to the thread AI = Awesome Intelligence.
    ChatGPT is getting useless even for the random time I decide to use it.
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    joe.pistell replied to the thread AI = Awesome Intelligence.
    AI power users, I don't know if this is me, but I swear it's not. When a new release is dropped by a frontier LLM like Claude or...
  • joe.pistell
    I said "Wiz Kids in Dealers are building custom apps" and you took it out of context due to my brevity. This is what I meant: EDITED...
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