Service booking agent
Takes the registration, pulls the vehicle and service history, offers real slots from the workshop diary, confirms the courtesy car, and writes the booking straight into the DMS. English and Arabic.
Automotive & dealerships · Riyadh
AI for automotive & dealerships in Riyadh
For a dealership or service centre in Riyadh, two leaks cost the most: the service line that rings out after hours, and the web enquiry about a specific vehicle that goes cold before anyone calls back. Riyadh is the fastest-moving market in the Gulf, with Vision 2030 pouring investment into retail, hospitality, healthcare and automotive. Demand is huge and the pressure is on operations to keep up — exactly where AI on the repetitive work pays back quickest.
The local picture
What we design around in Riyadh
Riyadh is the fastest-moving market in the Gulf, with Vision 2030 pouring investment into retail, hospitality, healthcare and automotive. Demand is huge and the pressure is on operations to keep up — exactly where AI on the repetitive work pays back quickest.
Riyadh concentrates the Kingdom's decision-making and capital: SDAIA and the ministries sit here, the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) anchors the financial sector, and the Regional HQ programme is pulling multinational headquarters into the city under Vision 2030. The pace means operations are under constant pressure to keep up.
Regulation. Saudi Arabia's PDPL, overseen by SDAIA, introduces data-residency and cross-border transfer restrictions that limit how international AI providers can serve Saudi customers — a real reason to work with a firm that architects for it.
Language. Arabic is the primary language of business and customer service in Riyadh; Modern Standard and Gulf Arabic handling is essential, with English as a secondary.
What we would build
For automotive & dealerships in Riyadh
After-hours sales agent
Answers the sales line outside opening hours, qualifies against actual stock, captures budget, part-exchange and finance intent, and books the test drive into the salesperson's diary for the next morning.
Job-status line
Answers "is my car ready" from live DMS status without touching a service advisor, and proactively texts the customer when the job moves to ready.
Lead triage and follow-up
Every web, portal and WhatsApp enquiry captured in one pipeline, scored, and followed up automatically until a human takes it or the customer opts out.
Where the money goes
The leaks we find
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The service line is a bottleneck, not a channel
Booking a service is a five-question conversation: registration, mileage, symptom, courtesy car, preferred day. It does not need a person, but it consumes one — and while that person is on the phone, the customer standing at the desk waits.
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Test-drive enquiries decay by the hour
A buyer who enquires about a specific vehicle is in-market that week, often that day. The gap between enquiry and first contact is the single biggest determinant of whether you get the appointment, and most dealer groups measure it in hours rather than minutes.
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Arabic-speaking customers get an inconsistent experience
In the Gulf, whether a caller gets served well in Arabic frequently depends on who is on shift. That is a service inconsistency your competitors are increasingly solving.
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Parts and status calls crowd out selling
"Is my car ready?" is the highest-volume, lowest-value call a service department takes. It is also the easiest to answer from the DMS automatically.
How we would engage
Services for Riyadh
Build it
Agentic AI & Automation
Voice and chat agents that answer every call, qualify the enquiry, take the booking and write it into the systems you already use — in English and Arabic, around the clock. Amira, running live for a Dubai client, is one of ours.
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GTM & Lead Management
Most businesses do not have a lead problem, they have a follow-up problem. We build the capture, qualification and nurture system — with AI doing the repetitive work — so nothing you have already paid to attract goes cold.
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Automotive & dealerships in Riyadh: your questions
Do you work with automotive & dealerships in Riyadh?
Yes. Altus is based in Dubai and delivers across the GCC, including Riyadh. We build and run voice and chat agents, put AI governance in place, and automate the repetitive work — scoped to your systems and to how business is done in Riyadh Province.
What is specific about deploying AI in Riyadh?
Riyadh concentrates the Kingdom's decision-making and capital: SDAIA and the ministries sit here, the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) anchors the financial sector, and the Regional HQ programme is pulling multinational headquarters into the city under Vision 2030. The pace means operations are under constant pressure to keep up. We design around Riyadh's regulation and language reality from the first call rather than retrofitting it later.
Will customers know they are talking to an AI?
Yes — the agent identifies itself. In our experience customers mind far less about talking to an AI than about waiting on hold or leaving a voicemail nobody returns. Trying to disguise it is both unnecessary and, in several jurisdictions, a compliance risk.
What happens when it does not know the answer?
It says so and hands to a person, with the full conversation attached so the customer does not repeat themselves. We design the handover before we design the conversation.
Do we need to replace our DMS?
No. We build around what you run. If a specific integration is not viable we will tell you in week one and design the workflow to avoid it, rather than proposing a system replacement.
How does this work for a group with several franchises?
One agent per brand and per line, sharing infrastructure. Manufacturer rules and tone differ by franchise, so the guardrails do too — but the build cost per additional site drops sharply after the first.
Talk to us about Riyadh
Bring a month of call logs or enquiry data and we will show you, specifically, where it is leaking and what it is worth fixing — for your operation in Riyadh.