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AMA FourEyes | Death by 1,000 papercuts: what’s yours?

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David Steinberg

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Feb 13, 2020
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I’m David Steinberg, founder/CEO of Foureyes. Disclosure up front: we just released the Connect MCP, which lets you work with your store’s unified data (CRM, DMS, website, inventory, phones) right in the Foureyes platform or from the AI tool you already use.

Nobody’s day at a dealership gets wrecked by one big problem. It gets bled out by a thousand papercuts: logging into four systems to answer one question, a spreadsheet someone rebuilds every Monday, a lead that went cold because nobody saw the customer was back on the site, a call that never made it into the CRM, a list you can’t pull because the data lives with a vendor.

Every one of those is small. None of them was ever big enough for a software company to fix for your store, so you worked around them, every day, for years.

I think that just changed. We tooled up the MCP with builder capabilities, so the AI doesn’t just answer questions. It builds and deploys working apps on your unified data: it can save audiences, contact only the people you’re allowed to contact, and write the follow-up back to your CRM.

So here’s the deal: reply with your papercut. What slows you down? What do you rebuild every week? What question takes three systems and twenty minutes to answer? I’ll pick a few, build a sample app for each on demo data, and post the working result and how long it took.

And if you’d rather just ask me anything about dealer data, AI, vendor lock-in, or consent, go for it.

I'll pick an idea or two and build a live app in 15 minutes to demo it on Friday.
 
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I'll pick an idea or two and build a live app in 15 minutes to demo it on Friday.

Looking forward to that!

I like your timing, since dealers (and vendors) are just finishing their October closeout. Having an MCP to my Foureyes-connected data could be quite the month-end reporting speed-upper!
 
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✨ AI Highlights

David Steinberg, CEO of Foureyes, opens a discussion inviting dealers to share their most persistent small operational frustrations — the daily workarounds like logging into multiple systems, rebuilding Monday spreadsheets, or missed follow-ups when a customer returns to the site. The thread serves as both a pain-point discovery conversation and a soft introduction to Foureyes' new Connect MCP, which aims to unify CRM, DMS, website, inventory, and phone data into one accessible layer. The key insight is that dealership inefficiency rarely stems from one catastrophic failure but from dozens of tolerated micro-frictions that no vendor ever found worth solving individually.

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