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Personal Agent Protocol
Your next car buyer may never visit your website
Dealer Handshake brings Personal Agent Protocol to car shopping, with support live on Car Handshake and rolling out to dealership clients.
Dealer Handshake Journal
Ideas for the next automotive interface.
Field notes on AI, automotive retail, buyer behavior, and the open protocols connecting dealerships to AI assistants.
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Personal Agent Protocol
Personal Agent Protocol: the front door for AI agents — and where automotive fits
What the Personal Agent Protocol announcement means for dealerships, and how its identity and permission layer fits with the automotive vocabulary of AAP.
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Auto Agent Protocol
Vibe coding still needs open source
The case for sharing code, tests, and standards grows as more teams generate their own software.
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Dealer Operations
Your inventory feed needs a ten-VIN test
A practical check for dealers evaluating whether an AI shopping connection can answer from the cars they actually have.
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Car Handshake
Car Handshake: A Car Search Site With No Paid Rankings and No Spam Calls
Live participating dealer inventory, with search criteria determining the order and shoppers choosing when to make contact.
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Dealer Operations
What does the Auto Agent Protocol actually give my dealership?
A dealer asked what the Auto Agent Protocol buys him. A real dealership experiment compares web-only AI shopping with a direct inventory connection.
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Car Handshake
You Can Now Ask ChatGPT to Find Cars for Sale Near You — Here’s How (It’s Free)
Car shopping sites haven’t changed in 20 years. So we built Car Handshake — a free car search that works on the web and inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, across the US and Canada.
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Industry Research
We measured what an AI assistant actually sees on a dealer’s website. The median was 5.3% of the lot.
We scanned 234 US dealership websites the way an AI assistant would: two in five refused datacenter traffic outright, and the rest exposed a median 5.3% of their own inventory.
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Auto Agent Protocol
Harley-Davidson & LiveWire Architect Just Gave AAP v1.2 Motorcycles and EVs
Sergey Kovalchuk, a Solutions Architect at Harley-Davidson and LiveWire, built AAP’s first major community release in his personal capacity — and it opens agentic vehicle commerce to the entire powersports and electric market.
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A2A Protocol
A2A: the quiet protocol that lets anything talk to anything
Agent-to-agent communication is becoming the common language of the AI era — and it is far more than AIs talking to AIs. Here is why it is a big deal, and why automotive is the first industry to plug in.
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Industry Research
How do car buyers like to reach out to dealerships? The data is brutal.
A look at every channel buyers actually use now — phone, text, chat, email, social, and AI — and what the latest research says about each.
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Announcement
Auto Agent Protocol hits 1.0 — and we’re connecting 1,000 dealerships for free
The open standard for AI and car dealerships is now stable. Here’s what that means, why it matters, and how your dealership gets in — free, forever.
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Auto Agent Protocol
What if your AI could actually buy you a car?
Meet the Auto Agent Protocol — a tiny open standard that lets any AI talk to any dealership in the same language.
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Put the protocol to work
Make your inventory available to AI shoppers.
Practical dealer guides
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Compare AI visibility providers
See what GEO agencies, monitoring tools and inventory connections deliver, with sources and a shared acceptance test.
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Gemini and Google AI visibility
Check indexing, test broader shopper questions and measure mentions separately from inventory accuracy.
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AI visibility for car dealerships
Check whether assistants can find your store, read your inventory, and support a useful next step.
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Get your inventory into ChatGPT
Understand dealer participation, shopper setup, and the inquiry that reaches your CRM.
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Automotive GEO, AEO and SEO
Compare the work behind search visibility and the measurements to ask a provider for.
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Connect to personal AI agents
See how AAP, MCP, inventory feeds, and permission controls fit together.
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Auto Agent Protocol and its founding team
Read the history, the open contract, and your implementation options.