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Questions to Ask When Looking for an AI Provider

Guidelines and questions to assist you in organizing and coordinating your company's efforts to achieve its technology goals.

As automotive Artificial Intelligence evolves it’s important to understand your current tech operations before utilizing AI. As various platforms develop, it may take time to understand their different uses and capabilities. Practice and learning through experimentation will continue until the next version emerges, renewing the cycle.

Today, you must be versatile and capable of learning AI offensively and defensively. This requires understanding your business challenges that need to be solved, goals, available resources, and team strengths.

To fully comprehend AI programs, their capabilities, and functionalities, focus on the specific situations you aim to address. When issues arise in various areas of your business, pay close attention to their status, and explore creative alternatives. This approach allows you to stay ahead of potential problems and select the most suitable AI tool to maximize your advantages across multiple departments or applications.

Additionally, familiarize yourself to anticipate future conditions so you’re prepared to adapt. You must have an awareness of where the next big play in the market will take place and be able to move swiftly and assertively. Even when you think AI may not be suitable for a particular situation, it’s worth exploring AI’s performance potential in areas such as your website, social media, and lead messaging.

It's also essential to ask the right questions when you’re exploring automotive AI tools to determine your position and objectives as a customer. This enables you to identify actual needs and select the appropriate AI model, strategy, and objectives for your business while ensuring success within the specified timeframe.

Below, we’ve provided guidelines and questions to assist you in organizing and coordinating your company's efforts to achieve its technology goals.

Identify the problems you need to solve with AI

1.     Consider other issues aside from the initial set of problems.

2.     Determine the advantages that your desired business position would bring.

3.     Explore what you admire about your competitors and whether you can incorporate those aspects into your own business.

Question to ask: How are your conversations trained?

Assess the automation from your AI provider

1.     Ensure it is appropriate for your goals in terms of timing and format.

2.     Define your objectives and determine if your target audience will provide a strategic advantage.

3.     Evaluate the effectiveness of your current conversational approach.

4.     Provide recommendations and assess how they will enhance your position.

5.     Consider exploring other industries or companies outside the automotive sector that may experience future growth.

Question to ask: Can you show and explain your roadmap?

Outlines the path you will take to achieve your plan

1.     Develop your business roadmap and long-term strategic goals.

2.     Ensure that your AI provider’s roadmap aligns with your vision and provides a timeline for achieving your goals.

3.     The roadmap can be flexible, accommodating different levels of detail based on your business maturity and team size.

Question to ask: Are you integrated with my current tools?

Determine the improvements AI tools will bring

1.     Assess if you are currently utilizing any AI services.

2.     Evaluate if your expectations have been met.

3.     Identify areas of opportunity within your current business situation.

Your next steps: Click here to schedule your consultation with our experts so you can begin asking questions and we can determine the mostpractical and beneficial AI tool for you.  

About the author

Bernabe Garza a multi-talented creative from Torreon Coahuila and has over 5 years of automotive experience and more specifically the sales departments. As a true curious researcher and passionate reader, this College Tec de Monterrey graduate focused his collegiate studies on Marketing and his Masters in administration. In his personal life, this enjoys spending time visiting the beaches of Mexico, movies, boxing and of course, reading the classics of literature.

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About the author

Bernabe Garza a multi-talented creative from Torreon Coahuila and has over 5 years of automotive experience and more specifically the sales departments. As a true curious researcher and passionate reader, this College Tec de Monterrey graduate focused his collegiate studies on Marketing and his Masters in administration. In his personal life, this enjoys spending time visiting the beaches of Mexico, movies, boxing and of course, reading the classics of literature.

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