What The Prompt?

The future of automotive retail isn’t coming — it’s already here.What The Prompt? is the podcast where bold conversations meet bold technology.Hosted by Michael Rodriguez, this show unpacks how AI is reshaping everything:🔹 Lead generation🔹 Sales & service operations🔹 Customer experience🔹 Dealership efficiencyEach episode features top voices from across the auto industry — from GMs to tech founders — delivering real-world insights, not fluff.Whether you’re a dealer principal, sales leader, vendor, or OEM exec…this is your front-row seat to the revolution in retail automotive.

What The Prompt? is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts What The Prompt?, a general show with 13 episodes published.

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  AI isn’t breaking dealerships — it’s exposing them (ft. Todd Smith)

  Dec 23, 202541 minS0

  <p>AI isn’t breaking dealerships — it’s exposing them. In this episode of What The Prompt (from Automotive Intelligence), Michael Rodriguez sits down with Todd Smith, CEO of Core AI and author of the upcoming book The Intelligent Dealership, to break down what dealership leaders are really reacting to when they say “AI isn’t working.” This isn’t a vendor hype conversation. Todd and Michael get into the real shift happening inside dealerships: AI doesn’t fix broken workflows — it accelerates them. And if your data, systems, and decision-making foundation is fragmented, AI simply turns the volume up on the chaos. In t...

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  Rewiring Auto Retail: The 2030 Manifesto (ft. Jason Chabot)

  Nov 27, 202549 minS0

  <p>What happens when a lifelong “car guy” spends 15 years on the showroom floor… then 15 years in SaaS and AI? You get a brutally honest look at why most dealers aren’t ready for the 2030 dealership—and what to do about it. In this episode of What The Prompt?, host Michael Rodriguez sits down with Jason Chabot to unpack two decades of lessons from retail, F&I, general management, and now AI innovation. Jason shares how burnout, misaligned systems, and “grind culture” pushed him to rethink everything—from siloed CRMs and broken processes to the way vendors and data should really work toge...

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  The Truth About SEO in the Age of AI (ft. Greg Gifford)

  Nov 21, 202551 minS0

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>AI isn’t killing SEO in auto retail — bad strategy is.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode of <b>What The Prompt?</b>, host <b>Michael Rodriguez</b> sits down with legendary automotive SEO expert <b>Greg Gifford</b>, COO at SearchLab Digital, to unpack what’s actually true about SEO, content, and AI for car dealers… and what’s pure snake oil.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you’ve ever been pitched “20 pages of SEO content a month,” promised 500 leads from ChatGPT, or told that AI visibility can be “tracked just like...

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  Fixing the “Controlled Chaos” of Dealership Service with AI | Dave Anderson, Evenflow AI

  Nov 11, 202534 minS0

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>What if your service drive could run like a perfectly packed Tetris board — every technician at full capacity, no empty lifts, and no chaos?<br /><br />In this episode of What the Prompt?, host Michael Rodriguez sits down with Dave Anderson, founder of Evenflow AI, the platform re-engineering how dealerships schedule service, allocate technician time, and recover lost revenue. Drawing on his background in applied mathematics and airline optimization, Dave explains how his team is applying “capacity-aware scheduling” to the back end of auto retail — and why dealers are seeing 20%+ revenue lifts without adding s...

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  How Vinny A.I. Saves Missed Calls & Lost Deals in Automotive

  Nov 5, 202530 minS0

  <p>Send us a text</p><p>Ever had a customer say, “I’ll call you back,” and they actually meant it — but when you followed up, they’d already bought somewhere else?<br />That’s not a missed call… that’s lost revenue.<br /><br />Welcome back to What The Prompt?, where AI meets the showroom floor. Today, host Michael Rodriguez sits down with Sanjay Varnwal, founder of Spyne — the company behind Vinny AI, a voice engagement platform reshaping dealership operations in real-time.<br /><br />🚀 What We Cover<br /><br />In this episode, we break down:<br />•How Vinny AI recovers up to $80,0...

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