🔗 LinkedIn пост · Alex Perdikis · Dealer Principal building agentic AI for automotive retail | CEO & Owner @ Koons Motors - Ford•Lincoln•Mazda + more! | Founder @ inride.ai -Trade Agent AI | Equity Mining · Used Vehicle Acquisition · Dealer Profitability · 2026-05-28 · 👍 23 · 💬 4 · 🔁 9
Grateful to Digital Dealer for the platform to put this on the record:
An AI agent now gets reimbursed like a billboard.
On April 1, a new line appeared in the Ford dealer co-op dropdown, the program that pays dealers back for what produces sales.
For 75 years, every line on it described some sort of media.
This one read: inride – Trade Agent AI.
Ford didn’t approve a tool. They approved a coworker…..an autonomous agent treated as real work worth real money.
Here is the factor that EVERYONE needs to pay attention to, it isn’t just automotive.
Healthcare, HVAC, insurance, real estate ….. every business built on remembering its customers has an April 1 coming. Most don’t see it yet.
I’ve spent almost 30 years running dealerships and now our team is building AGENTIC AI for them at inride.
Calling these shifts early, before the industry catches up has become the work I care about most. This is the clearest signal I’ve seen yet.
And none of it is a solo act.
Nick Perdikis and the inride team built the thing this article is really about.
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