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Case study · Ford · Auto/Mate

Every call answered at Court Street Ford. 10.6% more appointments.

A forty-year Ford store put its service phones and its outbound campaigns on ShortLoop's Phone AI.

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Court Street Ford dealership
Bourbonnais, IllinoisLive since December 2025
+10.6%
service appointments, year over year
11,442
calls answered, every one picked up
153h
advisor time back on the drive
In Their Words

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“AI doesn't have a bad day. It keeps making appointments.”
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Books into Auto/Mate, and the systems other stores run

Reynolds & Reynolds
CDK Global
Xtime
Tekion
DealerFX
myKaarma
VinSolutions
PBS
How It Works

When a Ford customer calls Court Street.

No new hire, no new DMS, no change to how advisors work the drive.

  1. The call is answered right away

    Including after hours and when several customers call at once.

  2. The customer books a slot

    Main shop or express lane, on the store's own rules.

  3. Some calls go to an advisor

    Anyone who asks for a person, with the context already collected.

Appointment goes into Auto/Mate

Captured on every appointment
  • Slot
  • Vehicle info
  • Concern
Jeff Swank
“ShortLoop has significantly reduced our inbound call load by booking service appointments automatically. Our advisors stay focused on the customers in front of them.”
Jeff Swank · Fixed Ops Director, Court Street Ford
The Results

90 days, from the dealership's own dashboard.

Service calls handled by the AI
5,083
65%
Booked with no human on the call
35%
Handed to an advisor
  • Booked with no human on the call
  • Handed to an advisor
Where it booked them
Main shop55%
Express lane45%
  • Main shop
  • Express lane
Outbound campaigns
Appointments
44
$25 off service

Booked in week one, zero advisor hours

Customers
152
Recall outreach

Reached within days of the list dropping

Engagement
1 in 3
Rewards and rebate

Across 400+ combined contacts

All figures from the ShortLoop dashboard and the Court Street Ford dealer case study, May 1 to July 31, 2026.

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Straight Answers

What dealerships ask about Phone AI and Auto/Mate.

Does it replace our advisors?

No. It takes the booking calls so advisors stay with the customers in front of them.

Does it sound like a robot?

Callers talk to it the way they talk to an advisor, in English or Spanish, script or no script.

What if a caller asks for a person?

It transfers by name, role or department, with what it has already collected. At Court Street that was 35% of calls.

Can we set our own booking rules?

Yes. It books on your rules, main shop or express lane, not a generic script.

Do we change our numbers or our phone system?

No. Same numbers, same phone system, nothing ripped out.

Does it only work with Auto/Mate?

No. Also Reynolds, CDK, Xtime, Tekion, DealerFX, myKaarma and PBS.

What happens after hours and at the weekend?

It is always on, with no cap on how many calls it takes at once.

Does it take sales calls too?

Yes. It picks up the sales calls your team misses and writes the lead into whichever CRM, DMS or scheduler you run.

Does it do outbound as well?

Yes. Court Street runs recalls, declined service, lost leads and CSI through the same AI.

Can we see what happened on every call?

Yes. Every call is logged with what the caller wanted and what the AI did. Every figure above came from that dashboard.

Something we did not cover? Ask on the call.

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