AI inside the work

AI that works inside the automotive operation.Open about what it does. Clear about its limits.

Automind connects employees, partners, customers, suppliers, vehicles, products, services and workflows so people can see pressure earlier and take the next action available to them. The intelligence is woven into the workflow—not another chatbot.

A traditional DMS records each department. DIS connects those records, people and decisions into one operating flow.

From one technician and a van to a multi-company dealer group.

See DIS at work
Employees, partners, customers, suppliers, vehicles, products, services and workflows connected through Automind with human approval
One connected operating storyEmployees, customers, suppliers, partners, vehicles, products, services and workflows stay connected around human authority.
Designed by automotive people. Built with AI-assisted engineering. Shaped with customers, suppliers and partners. Governed by human authority.
DIS connects decisions, not just records.Watch the interface turn operating pressure and evidence into the next useful view for each person.Explore the DIS experience
Real DIS. Real product evidence.

Explore the screen.
Follow the evidence.

Move from Command Centre and user-controlled 3D intelligence to Vehicle Sales, Workshop Control, RO 360, the Powerfix diagnostic companion, Experience Creator and Open + Improve.

01ONE OPERATION · ONE PRESSURE · ONE ACCOUNTABLE RESPONSE

See the whole operation. Follow one pressure to the right response.

Command Centre brings Sales and fixed operations into one business-wide view. Customer, vehicle, commercial, workshop, parts and financial pressure stay connected while each accountable team retains its own authority.

Intelligence may notice, explain and prepare. The accountable person and owning workflow retain operational authority, and material outcomes remain auditable.

Seven connected views of the same automotive operating story—from vehicle opportunity to accountable outcome.

Why Automind

The gaps between departments are where promises get lost.

A customer request, a vehicle, a repair order, a part, a technician and a dollar can all describe the same job—yet many systems make people reconcile them by hand.

CustomerVehicleWorkPartsValueOne accountable decision
01 · Connect

One operating story

Customers, vehicles, work, parts and value stay linked instead of being copied into separate departmental versions.

02 · Decide

A clear next action

See what can happen next, what must happen first and the evidence behind it.

03 · Remember

Context follows the work

Conversations, commitments and outcomes stay attached to the customer, vehicle or work they concern.

DIS beyond legacy dealer systems

A Dealer Intelligence System connects the decision—not just the record.

Many legacy dealer systems are organised around departments and completed transactions. DIS keeps those dependable records, then connects the customer, vehicle, work, parts and value so people can see pressure earlier and act with context.

From recording

Accurate transactions

Keep the dependable records, controls and clear history an automotive operation requires.

To understandingSee connected pressure, relationships and possible outcomes while there is still time to act.
From isolated modules

Departmental systems

Respect each team’s ownership without forcing people to reconcile separate versions of the same work.

To one connected viewGive each person the information they need and are allowed to see—nothing broader.
From bolt-on chat

AI beside the workflow

Move beyond a question box that depends on someone knowing what to ask and when to ask it.

To intelligence inside workDIS notices, prepares and predicts. The right person decides.

Coexist first. Prove value. Replace only when ready.

The principle is the same at every scale: give people the context they need without flattening responsibility or security. Next: intelligence inside the work

Intelligence in context

Practical intelligence.
Quietly interwoven.

Automind combines operating rules, explainable signals and optional AI assistance where the reasons are already visible. It is not another conversation window waiting for someone to ask the perfect question.

01

Notice

Surface changing pressure, constraints and exceptions earlier.

02

Prepare

Explain, compare, summarise, draft or propose within the work that person can use.

03

Decide

Show the reason and supporting information so the accountable person can confirm the next step.

04

Measure

Keep the outcome visible so the organisation can learn what actually helped.

People stay in control

AI may explain, prepare or recommend.

Important actions still require the right person and the right conditions. People can see who may act, why, and what happened. Improvement remains a partnership: observe, recommend, decide, test, release and measure.

Standards-ready foundations

Industry discipline is part of the model.

DIS is designed around the identities, evidence and controls automotive operations need—not a generic system with automotive labels added later.

STAR Automotive Retail · ISO 3779/3780

Vehicles keep one identity.

VIN structure, source identifiers, correlation and lifecycle evidence support the same vehicle story across acquisition, stock, sale and service.

Auto Care ACES/PIES · GS1

Parts keep fitment and traceability.

Part identity, product classification, vehicle fitment, packaging and traceability have governed places in the shared model.

PPSR · NEVDIS · ATO GST · Peppol

Australian evidence has a home.

Vehicle search evidence, Australian legal identity, GST and eInvoicing fields are included without pretending a government or factory connection already exists.

Australian Privacy Principles

Privacy belongs in the record.

Purpose, consent, access, correction, retention, cross-border handling and de-identification are designed as governed evidence—not a footer promise.

NIST AI RMF · ISO/IEC 42001 · OWASP Agentic Security

AI has owners, limits and evidence.

Tools stay least-privilege, important actions stay human-approved, and evaluation, incidents and outcomes remain visible.

DIS interface and output standards

The experience is governed too.

Responsive, accessible patterns, five interface languages, traceable local and ISO time, and HTML, spreadsheet, open-document and print-ready outputs share one standard.

This is a reviewed alignment baseline: it means the data model and control surfaces are prepared for implementation. It is not a claim of external certification, licensed conformance testing or a live entitlement to any third-party service.

Automind DIS Information Studio showing governed forms, reports, dashboards and app outputs
Live governed canvasPeople can shape useful outputs while shared records, permissions and workflow meaning stay intact.
Experience Design

One governed DIS. Personal to the person using it.

Standard automotive workflows stay dependable while the experience can respond to an organisation’s culture, the work in front of someone and their own bounded preferences.

See the governed creation workflow
Industry to individual

Authorised settings can adapt language, density, motion, visual exploration and working views without changing the meaning of a customer, vehicle, repair order, part or financial record.

Responsive and enjoyable

One interface standard spans desktop, tablet, phone, keyboard, touch and reduced motion—designed to feel quick, engaging and clear rather than bureaucratic.

Observe → decide → prove → improve

Today, Automind observes authorised evidence, explains pressure and can run reversible internal signals inside a declared policy. Its improvement model is to earn broader delegation through measured outcomes—while data meaning, workflow authority, permissions, money, safety, law and production release remain protected human boundaries.

One foundation, different scale

Start with the operation you have.

Choose one useful starting point. Add people, locations and modules when they earn their place.

02Independent workshop

A useful first proof

Prove workshop flow without a big-bang replacement.

Begin where capacity, parts and customer promises collide. Keep the existing system while DIS demonstrates a clearer controller view.

  1. 01Capacity and conflicts
  2. 02Repair-order readiness
  3. 03Costing and final output
Automind DIS Workshop Controller with repair-order containers and capacity lanes
Workshop ControllerSee repair orders, technician capacity, skills, parts readiness and customer commitments in one controlled view.
Automotive signal desk

A useful reason to come back.

This is a curated reference desk—not a live feed. Choose a pressure and use authoritative Australian sources to ask a better operating question.

The 90-second check

Turn market movement into an operating question.

Headline registrations and dealer-sector research are useful when they change a stock, capacity, follow-up or customer decision—not when they become another chart nobody owns.

  1. 01Is enquiry mix moving faster than our stock and follow-up plan?
  2. 02Which vehicle trends could change workshop, parts or charging demand?
  3. 03Which assumption should we test before committing more capital?
Go to the sourceLinks checked
Federal Chamber of Automotive IndustriesFCAI public releases

Public new-vehicle headlines and industry statements.

Publisher dates each releaseOpen official source Australian Automotive Dealer AssociationAADA media releases

Dealer policy, research and public used-market perspectives.

Publisher dates each releaseOpen official source

External information belongs to the named publisher. Automind is independent, summarises in its own words and does not treat a link as certification, endorsement, legal or financial advice, or a live system connection. Check the publication date and verify the source before acting.

A coexistence road path

Keep what works.
Change what hurts first.

You should not have to trust a big-bang replacement promise. Begin with a bounded pressure, prove the operating outcome, then expand deliberately.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Map the pressure, its owner and the outcome worth measuring.

  2. 02

    Connect

    Coexist with the current dealer system through controlled interfaces.

  3. 03

    Prove

    Start with one bounded workflow or intelligence layer.

  4. 04

    Extend

    Add people, modules and locations as value and confidence grow.

  5. 05

    Transition

    Retire legacy functions deliberately—not in one disruptive leap.

Connections to vendor, factory and OEM systems are agreed and proven individually before they are used in a customer operation.

How we work

Open about the product.
Clear about its limits.

Automotive operations are human systems. The technology should connect people without hiding responsibility, reasons or uncertainty.

Our valued team is human and AI

Automotive people bring judgement, care and accountability. AI helps notice, explain and prepare; people can still see who may act, what happened and why.

Departments connect

Sales, CRM, F&I, floorplan, police book, workshop, parts, warranty and accounting can share foundations without sharing everything with everyone.

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Simple per-user structure

Our intended model grows with the people and capability required. Migration, integration, hosting and support are stated separately.

Evidence before claims

We show what works today, what still needs testing and what is only an idea. We would rather show a gap than hide it.

Founder ambition
“The ambition is to create the first AI-generated automotive solution that combines machine intelligence with human experience.”

That is our ambition. We intend to prove it.

Ready for a proper conversation?

Bring the systems, spreadsheets and frustrations your team lives with.

We will map a staged path without asking you to replace everything at once.

Selected organisations may receive a fixed-term, invitation-only beta. The recurring software subscription is $0 during the agreed beta term. The beta does not start, renew or convert automatically. Live operational data, custom integration and production support require separate signed terms.