From Dealership Floor to AI Automation | Danny Jacobs & Kirsty Bishopp, Auto Lot Impact #4

Danny Jacobs spent 35 years as a Dealer Principal in automotive. He lived the problem every dealership knows: social media posting that's inconsistent, manual, and always the first thing to slip when the floor gets busy.Instead of complaining about it, he built a system to fix it.Danny is the Co-Founder and CEO of Auto Lot Impact, an AI-enabled platform that turns dealership inventory into a social media lead machine. Joining him is Kirsty Bishopp, his partner and the technical lead who builds and runs the system.Here's how it works: the system watches dealership inventory. When something changes — a new car hits the lot, a price drops — it triggers automatically, generates branded content, and posts it to social. No marketing hire. No agency retainer. No gaps in posting when things get busy.The result, in Danny's words: a lead machine that drives dealership digital assets organically for a fraction of the price.In this episode, Danny and Kirsty walk us through:▸ The 35-year operator's view: what dealership social media actually looks like from the inside▸ The breaking point that turned an operator into a builder▸ A live demo of the system: inventory trigger to published post▸ Where AI does the work vs where automation and rules take over▸ What happened when they took it to their first dealer▸ The lead volume and cost comparison against agencies and in-house hires▸ The operator + technical partner dynamic: how a non-technical founder and a builder work together▸ Advice for anyone who sees a broken process in their industry and wonders if they could fix itThe core message: the best AI businesses come from operators who lived the problem for decades — and finally had the tools to fix it.▸ ▸ ▸ABOUT 120 OCTANE120 Octane is the podcast where founders, operators, and builders show us the AI systems they actually built. No hype. No theory. Real builds. Real impact. Real numbers.Hosted by Avi Slavin and Alexandra Jacobo, every episode pulls back the curtain on a real AI system in production — and extracts the lessons, playbooks, and tactical advice listeners can use in their own work.▸ ▸ ▸WHERE TO FIND USWebsite: 120octane.comApply to be a guest: 120octane.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/120-octane▸ ▸ ▸GUEST LINKSDanny Jacobs on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/daniel-jacobs-29440524Kirsty Bishopp on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstybishopp/Auto Lot Impact:https://www.linkedin.com/company/auto-lot-impact▸ ▸ ▸If this episode helped you, please rate, review, and share it with one operator who needs to hear it. Every subscribe matters when a show is just getting started.Until next time. Stay building.