# Clearline > Clearline is the AI workforce for car dealerships. It answers every call, follows up every lead, books appointments, and keeps the CRM current. We bring dealership calls, web chat, follow-up, sales and service appointments, and customer records into one platform. We help teams turn more customer conversations into revenue and improve dealership profitability. Clearline is backed by Y Combinator, Garage Capital, and Panache Ventures. Luna is our digital worker for dealership customer conversations. She handles inbound sales, service, parts, and finance calls, follows up by phone, text, and email, books appointments, and keeps customer records current. Workflows follow dealership-approved hours, routing, responses, and escalation rules; supported integrations and booking permissions determine which actions can be completed directly. Dealership staff receive the conversation history when a customer needs a person. The links below point to our public product pages, original research, and practical dealership guides. Product pages describe our capabilities; research and comparisons include their scope, sources, and review context. Pricing and implementation requirements should be confirmed for the dealership's proposed setup. ## Products - [Inbound](https://www.useclearline.com/product/inbound): AI voice agents that answer dealership sales and service calls, route intent, and book appointments 24/7. - [Campaigns](https://www.useclearline.com/product/campaigns): Automated follow-up for sales leads, appointments, service reminders, and reactivation campaigns. - [Scheduler](https://www.useclearline.com/product/scheduler): Self-service test-drive and service booking that connects shoppers to dealership availability. - [Web Chat](https://www.useclearline.com/product/web-chat): Website chat that answers shopper questions and books the next step in the conversation. - [CRM](https://www.useclearline.com/product/crm): A unified view of calls, messages, appointments, and the next actions dealership teams need to take. ## Company and buyer resources - [About Clearline](https://www.useclearline.com/about): Our company, founders, investors, and approach to building an AI workforce for the physical world. - [Pricing](https://www.useclearline.com/pricing): Our pricing options and the products and usage to review for your dealership. - [Book a demo](https://www.useclearline.com/demo): See our platform and discuss your dealership's workflows and required integrations with our team. - [ROI calculator](https://www.useclearline.com/roi): Model potential dealership returns using your own operating assumptions; estimates are not guaranteed results. - [AI playbook](https://www.useclearline.com/playbook): A practical playbook for applying AI across dealership operations. - [Blog](https://www.useclearline.com/blog): Our published dealership guides, buying advice, and original research. ## Original research - [We mystery shopped 53 car dealerships. Here's how they actually handle leads.](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/mystery-shop-dealership-lead-response-study-2026): Our April 2026 study of 53 Canadian dealerships, with one voicemail or web-form lead per store tracked over five days. Includes methodology and aggregate findings on human response time, follow-up, and channel use; findings describe this sample. - [Mystery shop your dealership](https://www.useclearline.com/mystery-shop): Request a review of your dealership's lead response and follow-up. ## Dealership software comparisons - [Compare Clearline with other dealership tools](https://www.useclearline.com/versus): Compare our dealership platform with other AI, phone, CRM and BDC options. Bring 4+ tools together, get live with our team and automate customer work across departments. - [Clearline vs Numa](https://www.useclearline.com/versus/numa): Compare our dealership platform with Numa. Explore tool consolidation, guided onboarding, automated follow-up, customer records and service workflows. - [Clearline vs Impel](https://www.useclearline.com/versus/impel): Compare our dealership platform with Impel. Explore native CRM work, tool consolidation, guided onboarding and automation alongside Impel’s sales, voice and merchandising products. - [Clearline vs Podium](https://www.useclearline.com/versus/podium): Compare our dealership platform with Podium Automotive. Explore connected customer work, tool consolidation, guided onboarding and automated follow-up alongside Jerry, reviews and Operator. ## Dealership AI resource pillars - [All resource pillars](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/pillars): Browse our five resource hubs by dealership workflow and buying decision. - [Dealership revenue capture](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/pillars/dealership-revenue-capture): Build faster lead response, recover missed calls, improve follow-up, and turn more customer conversations into booked appointments. - [AI service advisor for fixed operations](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/pillars/ai-service-advisor): Design service-call coverage, appointment booking, reminders, and follow-up around dealership rules and real system context. - [Dealership AI data and integrations](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/pillars/dealership-data-integrations): Connect customer conversations to reliable CRM, DMS, scheduling, and reporting context without creating another isolated tool. - [Dealership AI governance and quality assurance](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/pillars/ai-governance): Set ownership, permissions, escalation, testing, and review standards before customer-facing AI represents the dealership. - [How to buy and scale dealership AI](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/pillars/dealership-ai-buying-guide): Compare vendors, scope a pilot, model costs, define proof, and expand only after the dealership can verify operating outcomes. ## Recommended guides - [The practical guide to AI for car dealerships](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/ultimate-guide-ai-car-dealerships): A practical guide to AI for car dealerships across calls, lead response, CRM, appointments and service, with rollout roles, integration tests and profit measurement. - [How to evaluate dealership AI vendors: 15 questions](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-dealership-ai-vendors): Use 15 practical questions and a 30-point scorecard to compare dealership AI vendors on workflows, integrations, data, results, and cost. - [AI BDC pricing for dealerships: a buyer's guide](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/ai-bdc-pricing-dealerships): Compare AI BDC pricing for dealerships with a practical framework for plans, usage, integrations, hidden costs, pilots, and expected value. - [Best AI phone answering for car dealerships: what to compare](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/best-ai-phone-answering-car-dealerships): Compare our AI phone answering with Numa, Impel, Podium, Drivee and CallRail Voice Assist using official sources and practical workflow tests. - [Best automotive CRM software: a dealership buyer’s comparison](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/best-automotive-crm-software): Compare our automotive CRM with DriveCentric, VinSolutions, CDK, DealerSocket and AutoRaptor using official sources and a practical demo test. - [Automotive CRM pricing: compare the full cost, not just the subscription](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/automotive-crm-pricing): Compare automotive CRM pricing with a fill-in worksheet covering subscriptions, usage, integrations, migration, training, contract terms and retained tools. - [Why consolidating your dealership's tools is the real AI strategy](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/dealership-tool-consolidation-ai): Dealerships investing in AI without consolidating their tools first are feeding their AI incomplete data. Here's why unification is the prerequisite, and how to get there without disrupting operations. - [Automotive CDP guide for dealerships](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/centralizing-customer-data-for-dealerships): An automotive CDP unifies dealership customer data. Compare CDP, DMS, and CRM roles, then use the rollout checklist to protect leads and appointments. - [AI service advisor for car dealerships: an operator's guide](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/ai-service-advisor-car-dealerships): Learn how an AI service advisor handles dealership calls, scheduling, follow-up, handoffs, integrations, and measurement without replacing human judgment. - [Dealership AI rollout checklist: what to decide before you launch](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/dealership-ai-rollout-checklist): Rolling out AI in a dealership requires more than picking a vendor. Use this dealership AI rollout checklist to define workflows, guardrails, integrations, testing, and launch approval before customers interact with your AI. - [BDC KPIs dealership teams should track every day](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/bdc-kpis-dealership): The best dealership BDC KPIs measure customer intent moving through the funnel, not just rep activity. Use this scorecard to improve contact rate, appointment set rate, show rate, and conversion. - [How many calls does a car dealership miss? (and what it's costing you)](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/missed-calls-car-dealership-revenue): How many calls does a car dealership miss? Usually more than leadership sees in CRM. This guide breaks down the revenue impact and the operating fix. - [The AI lead-response playbook for car dealerships](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/ai-lead-response-playbook): Implement dealership AI lead response with practical templates, ownership rules, escalation paths and pass/fail tests for booking, opt-outs and failed handoffs. - [AI BDC vs human BDC: a dealership staffing and workflow comparison](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/ai-bdc-vs-human-bdc): Compare AI and human BDC workflows with a responsibility matrix, staffing continuity checklist, total-cost review and measured dealership outcomes. - [Service lane revenue AI guide](https://www.useclearline.com/blog/service-lane-revenue-ai): Use dealership call, booking, show-rate, and repair-order data to measure whether AI is creating incremental fixed ops revenue. ## Optional - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamclearline): Our company profile and updates. - [X / Twitter](https://x.com/useclearline): Our company updates. - [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearline): Our company profile in Y Combinator's directory. - [System status](https://status.live.useclearline.com): Current service availability and incident updates.