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Spectra AI

The AI assistant for leisure dealers.

Spectra AI answers questions from your live data, drafts the reply and writes the advert. It works within your team's permissions. Every plan includes it, with more from Professional.

Specialized for every dealership role. Each assistant uses only the tools your team allows, and acts only when asked.

Forecourt Assistant

Stock & Spec Specialist

Answers vehicle queries & drafts portal specs

Looks up layouts, berths, MTPLM, and options live, and writes verified forecourt copy in your tone.

Acts when asked • Verified tools
Communications

Email & Message Co-pilot

Drafts replies from thread & customer history

Reads the CRM thread, fills quote and payment links, and prepares the reply. Never sends without your review.

Acts when asked • Verified tools
Back Office

Document Reader

Extracts invoices & registration data

Reads supplier invoices, V5Cs, and build sheets to create inventory and ledger records with zero manual retyping.

Acts when asked • Verified tools
Dealership Ops

Workflow Engine

Automates handoffs & service alerts

Monitors workshop schedules, triggers consented follow-ups, and surfaces warranty expiries when conditions are met.

Acts when asked • Verified tools

Included in every plan. Everyday AI for the whole team, from forecourt to back office.

Assistant

Ask about your dealership in plain English and get answers from your live data.

The assistant works through around 70 tools, from CRM and stock to workshop and finance. It acts when you ask, using only the tools your role allows.

It only uses the tools your role allows, and it acts only when you ask.

Mail drafting

Draft or refine a reply grounded in the email thread and the customer's record.

Click "Draft with AI" and an agent reads the thread and the CRM, then writes the reply. Quote and payment links arrive as placeholders you fill with one click.

It never sends. Send stays blocked until every placeholder is filled, and you press it.

Needs a connected Gmail, Outlook or IMAP mailbox.

Content Studio

Advert copy, SEO metadata, social posts and a price rationale for any vehicle in stock.

Content Studio writes from verified catalogue specs, the manufacturer's own specification, analysis of your photos, your own notes and market comparables. You review, edit and save.

Nothing is kept until you save it.

Also in every plan

  • Marketing email builder

    A campaign email from a short brief.

    Spectra asks a few clarifying questions, then generates the email in your branding. You edit it in the block editor before anything is sent.

  • Document designer

    Window cards, order forms, job cards and letters, designed from a prompt.

    A wizard generates a template, and the visual designer can create or restyle a whole design from a description. Upload a Word document and Spectra converts it into a template.

From Professional. It reads your paperwork, suggests next moves, builds workflows and opens Spectra to agents.

Document Import

Turn an invoice, remittance, job sheet or manual into the right record.

Upload a PDF or a photo. Spectra extracts the data and shows you everything to check and edit. It recommends one of 19 actions and runs it when you approve.

The action runs only when you approve it.

Document Import lives in Data Hub.

Automation builder

Describe a workflow in plain English and get it built on the canvas.

Spectra turns your description into a workflow, asks a question when something is ambiguous, and checks its own work, trying to repair problems. Refine an existing flow the same way.

New workflows save as drafts. A person switches them on.

AI Suggestions

Spectra suggests the next move, and your team decides.

Switch them on in settings. AI Suggestions look at new contacts, part-exchange and booking requests, and churn risk changes, then suggest a next step. Managers review them.

Spectra spots things worth a look and flags them. Your team decides what to do.

Also from Professional

  • Spec extraction from owner's manuals

    Upload an owner's manual and Spectra pulls its specs into your catalogue.

    Spectra pulls out MTPLM, MRO, berths, axles, dimensions, warranty terms and service intervals. You check what it read, and it only fills empty fields, so nothing you entered is overwritten.

    Fills empty fields only.

  • Listing Rewrite, fact-checked

    Better shop listing descriptions, with the claims checked against your source.

    Rewrite improves a store listing's wording. A second AI pass checks its factual claims against your original and flags what it cannot support. Format only restructures.

    Any claim it cannot support is flagged for you to fix. You apply the result.

  • VHC briefings and video transcription

    Technicians start the check already knowing the vehicle's history.

    Before an inspection, Spectra summarises the vehicle's known issues for the technician. Walk-round videos are transcribed with a caravan-trade vocabulary and summarised for the service advisor.

  • Agents and MCP

    Connect your own AI agent to Spectra, with the access you choose.

    Spectra's MCP server gives MCP-compatible agents 80 tools across 13 areas. Agents sign in with OAuth 2.1 and never get more access than the person who signs them in.

    Store descriptions drafted by an agent wait for a person to approve them.

Built to earn your trust.

AI inside your dealership should earn trust like a new member of staff. It should do what it is asked, stay within its role and leave a record.

  1. You stay in charge

    AI Suggestions record a suggestion and stop. The mail agent waits for you to press Send. Document Import runs an action only when you approve. New automations start as drafts.

  2. Limited to your role

    The assistant only has the tools your role allows, so a salesperson's assistant cannot record a payment. Agents connected over MCP only see the tools their granted access allows.

  3. A person makes the call

    The assistant acts only when you ask it to. An email goes when you press Send, and an imported invoice becomes a record when you approve it.

  4. Agent calls are logged

    Calls an agent makes over MCP go into an audit log that tags each entry as agent, human or system. Mail drafting outcomes are logged, and assistant conversations are saved.

  5. Checked against the source

    When Spectra rewrites a shop listing, a second pass checks its factual claims against your original and flags what it cannot support. Content Studio works from sources you can see.

Bring your own agent. Connect it over MCP, and decide what each agent can reach.

From Professional

  • 80 tools across 13 areas, from stock and sales to workshop, finance and VHC.
  • OAuth 2.1 sign-in, with PKCE for desktop agents and client credentials for services.
  • Agents only see the tools their granted access allows.
  • Rate-limited and audit-logged, with each entry tagged as an agent action.
  • Vehicle and customer cards render inside supporting agents.
  • Store descriptions an agent drafts wait for a person to approve them.
  • API documentation, with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, is shared on request.
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Questions about Spectra AI

Is Spectra AI really included in every plan?

Yes. The assistant, mail drafting and Content Studio are included from Starter, with the marketing email and document builders, and there is no AI add-on to buy. Professional and Enterprise add Document Import (including spec extraction from owner's manuals), AI Suggestions, the automation builder and agent access over MCP. AI use is subject to a fair-use policy.

Will the AI take action without asking?

No. AI Suggestions only record suggestions. The mail agent never sends an email. Document Import runs an action only when you approve it, and new automations save as drafts until someone activates them. The assistant acts when you ask it to, using only the tools your role allows.

Can the AI see everything in Spectra?

No. It works within the permissions of the person using it. The assistant only gets the tools your role allows, from the eight roles and 51 permissions in Spectra. An external agent only gets the tools covered by the access you grant it, and never more than the person who signs it in.

Is our data used to train AI models?

No. Customer data is never used to train AI models.

What if the AI gets something wrong?

AI can make mistakes, so Spectra shows you its work before it counts. Document Import shows every extracted field for you to check and flags totals that do not add up. Mail drafts wait for you to send them. Listing rewrites get a second pass that checks their factual claims against your source, and Content Studio works from verified catalogue specs, the manufacturer's own specification, your photos, your notes and market comparables.

Which AI models does Spectra use?

Spectra runs on leading AI models. It uses Spectra's own platform key by default, so you do not need an AI account or key of your own.

Is Spectra's valuation AI?

Not in the chat sense, and we are careful about the difference. Valuation is market intelligence: comparables from real listings, with price bands and a confidence score. We are just as careful elsewhere: customer lifetime value scores and VHC pattern detection are rules-based, and call transcription comes from your 3CX phone system.

What is MCP, and do I need it?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for connecting AI agents to software. You do not need it to use Spectra AI. It is for teams that already work in an MCP-compatible agent and want it to look things up and get work done in Spectra, with access you control. It comes with Professional.

Does the website chat widget use AI?

No. The chat widget on your website puts customers through to your team in Spectra's live chat inbox. Your staff read and reply from Spectra.

See Spectra AI at work.

Book a demo and we will show you the assistant, Document Import and the automation builder working across stock, sales and the workshop.

Spectra. The DMS for leisure dealers.