Good enough wasn't laziness. It was math. For 30 years, "good enough" was the rational play in automotive — the capital math didn't reward excellence at every touchpoint. But the cost of intelligence just dropped 6,000x in four years, and the customer in your parking lot now has a $20/month alternative to most of what your stack delivers. Which means "good enough" is no longer the safest zone. It's the most exposed. Here's why vendors get squeezed before dealers — and the pat

IBM’s latest CEO study exposes the real AI gap: not skills, but organizational design. For dealerships, the opportunity isn’t buying another AI tool. It’s redesigning workflows so AI moves from a side tool to the operating layer behind sales, service, F&I, and growth.