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AI STRATEGY & EXECUTION
FOR AUTOMOTIVE RETAIL

Make AI your
dealership’s
advantage.

We help dealer groups decide where AI matters, develop the people to use it, and apply it to customer acquisition and everyday operations.

Executive advisory & internal championsAI video & social growthAgentic dealership workflows

WHAT WE DO

Three priorities.
One connected approach.

Better AI decisions, stronger internal capability, and practical execution. Start with the problem that matters to your business.

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AI Leadership
& Champions

What should we do with AI—and who will lead it?

Help leaders prioritize the right work and coach internal champions to improve real tasks.

CEO advisory · Champion coaching

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AI Video &
Social Growth

How do we turn attention into a sales conversation?

Connect AI video and social content to approval, publishing and a clear inquiry handoff.

Strategy · Production · Activation

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Agentic AI &
Dealer Operations

How can our data become an intelligent operating system?

Connect automotive knowledge, customer intelligence, AI agents and approved tools to support decisions and carry work forward.

Data strategy · AI agents · Integration

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INSIGHTS & FIELD GUIDES

Ideas you can
put to work.

Explore a concrete decision, a first champion project, a content journey or an agentic system. Read the guidance and work through an example, right here.

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FEATURED GUIDE · INTERNAL CAPABILITY

Choose a first project
your champion can own.

A useful task is not simply the most repetitive one. Look at the input, the reviewer, the consequence of error and the support your employee needs.

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WHY AINERGY

Automotive context.
AI judgment.
Practical execution.

Automotive data and AI experience, social-video expertise and hands-on capability building—connected to the specific decisions and tasks in your dealer group.

AUTOMOTIVE DATA & AGENTIC AI

Dr. Jie Cheng

Customer intelligence.
Automotive data systems.
AI strategy and applications.

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Dr. Jie Cheng is an automotive data and AI executive and the founder of Gausscode. He previously served as Chief Analytics Officer at Acxiom and ADARA, with earlier leadership experience at Ford Motor Company and J.D. Power and Associates. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Acxiom & ADARA
Former Chief Analytics Officer
Ford & J.D. Power
Earlier leadership experience
Gausscode
Founder · Automotive data & AI
University of Michigan
Ph.D.

CAPABILITY BUILT FROM THE WORK

Helping people who know the task
learn how to improve it.

Our coaching approach draws on internal experience at QIYU, where non-coding employees developed work-related automation tools through AI training and coaching. This informs the method; it is not a claim of measured U.S. dealership results.

HOW WE WORK

A clear question.
A practical next step.

Your business goal comes first. Scope, people, evidence and operating responsibility connect every part of the work.

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Understand the business.

Identify the decision or task, the current tools, people and constraints.

02

Choose the right approach.

Agree scope, responsibilities and the simplest suitable way to proceed.

03

Work with your team.

Deliver the advice, coaching, content or technical work in the agreed engagement.

04

Review what changed.

Check the result, effort and actual use. Decide what to continue, revise or stop.

This is a delivery method—not a required purchasing sequence. Defined video and workflow projects can begin directly.

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A CONTINUING PARTNERSHIP

Your dealer group’s
External AI Office.

A team that knows your priorities, your people and the decisions already made. Keep executive advice, champion development and the next AI initiative connected.

Executive advisoryChampion coachingRegular AI reviews
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COMMON QUESTIONS

Before we begin.

How is the champions program different from Agentic AI Solutions?

The champions program develops your people. Choosing a first project, learning to use approved tools and checking the result are part of that coaching. Agentic AI Solutions is a separate technical practice: automotive knowledge and data, agent behavior, tool access, integration and operating controls. A champion can be the business owner of an agentic project without being responsible for its engineering.

Are you a consulting firm or a technology vendor?

AINERGY provides strategy, coaching and scoped execution. We help choose an appropriate approach and support the work agreed with your team. We work alongside your existing technology; we do not offer a replacement CRM or DMS.

Can we start with a video or workflow project?

Yes. A defined production, campaign or workflow need can be scoped directly. You do not have to buy executive advisory or an ongoing Office contract first.

Do our AI champions need to be developers?

Prior coding experience is not a prerequisite for entry. We select tasks around the participant, the available support and the operating risk. Complex technical work is reviewed and scoped separately.

Will we have to replace our existing systems?

Not by default. We first examine existing capabilities and approved ways to connect or supplement them. Any replacement or integration needs its own business and technical case.

What would you need from our team?

A business sponsor, the people who know the task, agreed working time and appropriate information. Data access, tools, review and production responsibilities are defined before the relevant work starts.

How do you judge whether the work helped?

Measures depend on the engagement: decision quality, participant capability, actual usage, production effort, workflow quality or customer-response measures. We agree the baseline and review method at the start rather than promise a universal percentage improvement.

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LET’S START WITH YOUR BUSINESS

What should AI change
in your dealer group?

Bring a decision you need to make, a team you want to develop, or a project you are ready to explore.

Email Dr. Jie Cheng to start the conversation. Your email app will open with the subject prepared.

Email jie.cheng@ainergysource.com