We're Building AI That Sells Cars...

We're Building AI That Sells Cars for Us

Prime Dealer Podcast by Ralph Marcuccilli
S1 · E3
Mar 23, 2026
01:05:37

Episode notes

Ryan Coleman, Director of Operations at Coleman Automotive Group, sits down with Ralph Marcuccilli to talk about the technology and AI infrastructure powering one of the fastest-growing privately held automotive groups in the country.

Ryan breaks down what actually happens behind the scenes when Coleman acquires a new dealership every 90 days, the software migrations, the day-one execution, and how the team's finance experience lets them inject immediate equity into underperforming stores. Then the conversation goes somewhere most automotive podcasts never go. Ryan reveals the AI agent organization he's built inside Coleman. Autonomous agents that find market gaps, build landing pages, write and send emails, and manage their own sub-agents. He talks about replacing legacy dealership software, rolling out technician video inspections, building a custom CRM dashboard that the industry's top developers called the best they've ever seen, and why he believes Coleman will build its own CRM within five years.

This is the inside look at the tech stack behind the Road to 40.

Learn more and request the Private Placement Memorandum at https://primedealerfund.com

Coleman Automotive Group — Spirit Lake, IA | Estherville, IA | Le Mars, IA | Warsaw, IN | Streetsboro, OH Prime Dealer Equity Fund — Fort Wayne, IN

Keywords

entrepreneurship
investing
investor
private equity
cars
dealership
Ai
agents
tech

What place this episode is about