Industry

AI use cases in automotive

Car makers, dealers and mobility providers: sales assistance, in car assistants, service booking and warranty operations.

Use cases
8
Deployments
10
Organizations
8
Outcome disclosed
20%

8 Automotive use cases

8 organizations in 4 countries run these use cases in public. 20% of those 10 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Cross industryBanking

AI agent for early collections and hardship support

A voice and messaging agent that contacts customers in early arrears and answers their inbound calls, takes payments and sets up payment arrangements within preapproved rules, and recognises signs of hardship or vulnerability so those customers go straight to a trained person.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Reported cost reduction
75%
SameDay Auto Finance, vendor claim
Cross industryTechnology and software

AI agent for inbound lead qualification and meeting booking

An AI agent that engages inbound prospects the moment they arrive on the website, chat, messaging or the sales phone line, answers their first questions, qualifies them against the organization's criteria, and books a meeting or hands a ready conversation to the right salesperson, with the context written into the CRM.

Deployments
4 public, best grade C
Reported conversion uplift
19%
8x8, vendor claim
ManufacturingAutomotive

AI copilot for plant operators and maintenance technicians

A generative AI assistant for the people who run and repair machines in plants, workshops and service centres: it answers fault and procedure questions from equipment manuals, fault reports, shift logs and live machine data, in the technician's language, with links to the sources, so faults are diagnosed faster and expert knowledge is not lost when experienced staff retire.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Reported time saved per task
up to 18 minutes
Textron Aviation, vendor claim
Cross industryGovernment and public sector

AI document intelligence for unstructured forms and documents

AI that takes documents in any format, such as scanned forms, PDFs, photos, emails and handwritten notes, splits and classifies them, extracts the required fields with a confidence score, validates them against business rules and source systems, and sends only the uncertain cases to a person before the data enters the downstream process.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported accuracy
at least 90%
Ancine, vendor claim
Cross industryBanking

AI for legacy code modernization

AI that reads legacy code such as COBOL, PL/I or old Java, explains what each program does, maps its data flows and dependencies, drafts the equivalent modern code or specification, and generates the regression tests needed to prove the new system behaves like the old one.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
about 50%
Google, organization claim
Cross industryGovernment and public sector

AI for support knowledge article generation and maintenance

AI that drafts knowledge base articles from resolved tickets, cases and conversations, detects questions the knowledge base does not answer and articles that are outdated or contradict each other, and proposes new or revised articles for a knowledge owner to review and publish.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
ManufacturingAutomotive

AI quality inspection on the production line

AI that inspects every unit on a production line, from camera images, sound or machine process data, to find defects, missing parts and wrong variants in real time, and routes the few anomalies it flags to a quality inspector instead of relying on manual sampling at the end of the line.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Reported cost reduction
7%
Pegatron, vendor claim
Automotive

Generative AI voice assistant in the car

A voice assistant built into the vehicle that uses a large language model to hold a natural conversation with the driver and passengers, controls comfort, navigation and media functions, answers questions about the car and the world, and keeps the vehicle's own commands and data under the car maker's control.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Autonomous

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AI use cases in automotive: the playbook

8 use cases with deployments, value, playbooks and governance, in one document for your team.

What the evidence says

Computed from the 10 public deployments behind these use cases at automotive organizations. Numbers update with every checked record.

Organizations with a public deployment

Audi, BMW Group, CarMax, Mercedes-Benz Group, Rivian, Toyota Motor Europe, Volkswagen, Volvo Group.

The same use cases in other industries

19 public deployments at 19 organizations outside automotive run these use cases too. They are not counted in the numbers above; each use case page shows them.

Other industries