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NADA puts the benchmark at 6-7% of gross profit, or about $739 per vehicle sold. The number is easy to hit and easy to waste — here's what actually separates the two.
Every automotive AI vendor says "agentic" now. Here are the four rungs the category actually sits on, and the one question that sorts a real agent from a chat box.
AI already manages your Google Ads through Smart Bidding and Performance Max. The real question is who's supervising it — and what the automation structurally can't see.
In-house, agency, website provider, or platform — each ownership model fails predictably, and each costs differently. Including what ours costs, plainly.
Dealer platforms got good at finding marketing waste. It's still there. The gap isn't visibility — it's that nobody's job is to act on what the dashboard found.
Apple Maps ads launch this summer. 58% of businesses have never claimed their listing — and on a real dealership site, 56.7% of sessions come from Apple devices.
Stop babysitting your digital presence. Let Astra run it.
Missed VDP traffic. Dead search rankings. Ad spend on the wrong mix. A reputation issue growing undetected. These aren't surprises — they're patterns Astra catches in real time, surfaces with context, and hands you a clear path forward. Not a report. A directive.
