AI and automation for automotive businesses
From service intake through the workshop to the back office: we show where AI already carries its weight in the motor trade — and put it to work where it pays off. The practitioner first. Then the AI.
About us
Two perspectives of equal standing sit behind Lenz Automotive KI: four decades of hands-on dealership experience and AI implementation along the value chain. One knows where the money sits in a business. The other gets it out with AI. Together they produce automation that holds up in daily operations — rather than a demo that never leaves pilot status.
Founder · 40 years in dealerships
Frank Lenz spent four decades working in dealerships — from the workshop to management, 26 of those years as the owner. He knows every process, every obstacle and every typical mistake. Today he combines that practice with AI. Without complicated tech talk, but with results you can see in figures.
AI implementation & value creation
Valentin Rademacher takes AI to where it genuinely creates value in a business. He analyses a dealership’s value chain, finds the points with the greatest leverage and implements the automation there — connected to the systems already in place. His benchmark is not what would be technically possible, but what runs reliably every day and pays for itself.
Respected in the trade
The dealership Frank Lenz ran for decades stood for quality with thousands of customers. That trust is the foundation Lenz Automotive KI builds on today.
Reviews from Frank's time as owner of Autohaus Lenz (Autopark Lenz, Oelde-Stromberg). As of 2 September 2025.
Sound familiar?
In almost every business, money is tied up in places that disappear in the daily routine. Not for lack of effort — but because nobody has the time to keep an eye on everything at once.
This is exactly where we start — with AI you do not see, but notice in the result.
How we work
Your DMS, your tools, your processes stay as they are. On top sits an automation layer that connects everything and takes over the legwork. No migration, no parallel world.
We connect to existing interfaces. Your team keeps working where it already works.
Not just in one place: from purchasing through the workshop to the invoice.
Good automation is noticed because tasks are suddenly done — not because something is labelled AI.
Concrete levers
Every lever follows the same pattern: a problem from daily operations, a solution, a benefit in time or money. We start where it pays off most.
How it works
Four steps, not a months-long project. We start with one bounded bottleneck that goes live quickly and shows early, in figures, whether the effort pays off.
We look at your processes and tell you honestly where automation pays off straight away — and where it does not.
No guesswork: you get a fixed price for a clearly described scope.
Our tech team builds the integration. Your business keeps running normally throughout.
What is built once becomes reusable. Every further business gets the same solution at lower cost.
From practice
Three profit killers that sit in almost every business — worked through at typical industry magnitudes. Holding times, unsold workshop hours, enquiries left lying.
21,304 €
a year in holding costs, unnoticed
93,000 €
extra revenue if workshop productivity rises from 82 % to 87 %
144,000 €
margin lost to enquiries left lying
Traceable worked examples based on typical industry magnitudes, not an evaluation of individual customers. The AI check works out your real figures.
2 minutes · Free
A few figures are enough: standing days, vehicle value, open workshop days. The AI check shows you in black and gold what is costing you money right now — and where the biggest lever sits.
For the whole team
That is what the Kfz KI Cockpit is for: training, ready-made assistants and a community — a platform on top, not a replacement for automation.
FAQ
No. We place an automation layer over your existing systems rather than replacing them. Your DMS, your tools and your processes stay as they are.
After the first conversation you get a fixed-price quote for a clearly described scope — no guesswork. Reusable building blocks get cheaper with every further business.
We start with one bounded bottleneck rather than an all-encompassing project. It goes live quickly and shows early, in figures, whether the effort pays off. Your business keeps running normally throughout.
No. It takes over the legwork in the background — invoice preparation, standard letters, status updates. Advice, negotiation and diagnosis stay with the team, which gets its time back.
Processing follows the GDPR under a data processing agreement, and operations run inside the EU. Which data is processed for what purpose is put in writing before we start.
From a single workshop to a dealer group. What matters is not size but how much capital is tied up in stock and how many processes still run by hand.
In 30 minutes we work out together where AI actually brings money into your business. No obligation, free of charge.
