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How Guyane Auto qualifies its car leads 24/7 with an AI agent

In car retail, speed drives conversion. Guyane Auto handed the qualification of its inbound requests, from its website and WhatsApp, to GenLead, an AI agent that never goes offline.

Industry
Retail & distribution
Roles
Sales, Marketing
Region
French Guiana

Key figures

  • 24/7 coverage of inbound requests, where support used to be reachable only during business hours and was hard to staff.
  • Two channels handled by the same agent: website forms and WhatsApp conversations.
  • A connection to Google Ads that finally makes the return on acquisition campaigns measurable.

Guyane Auto is a multi-brand car group, known for its wide range of new and used vehicles. Facing strong growth in inbound requests, through its website and WhatsApp, the group had to make do with support available only during business hours, and hard to staff.

In a market where speed drives conversion, the company wanted a system that could qualify leads accurately, without depending on staffing or office hours.

The context: requests that come in at all hours

A constant flow of messages and requests, highly variable by day and hour, was swamping the sales teams. Three consequences: inconsistent qualification from one lead to the next, missed opportunities, and little visibility into the real performance of acquisition campaigns.

The goals set at the start

Scoping settled on four goals, set before any tool was chosen.

  • Ensure reliable, consistent lead qualification.
  • Absorb request peaks without overloading the teams.
  • Improve sales responsiveness with 24/7 availability.
  • Consolidate ROI tracking, notably through Google Ads.

The solution: GenLead, a real-time qualification agent

GENIAL deployed GenLead, an AI agent designed to qualify car requests the moment they come in.

  • Analyze every message, from the website or WhatsApp, to understand the customer's intent and needs.
  • Automatically qualify the lead against the group's internal criteria.
  • Instantly pass the information to the sales teams and internal tools.
  • Run 24/7, including during volume peaks.
  • Connect to Google Ads to measure performance and return on investment.

What changes compared with a chatbot

A traditional chatbot spots keywords and runs a script. GenLead understands a request written in plain language, then pulls the information from the group's systems. That deep integration with the business is what makes the difference in qualification quality.

In practice, a customer who describes their need in three vague sentences gets a useful answer, and the salesperson receives a lead that is already profiled instead of a bare form to call back.

Results and impact

The effects showed within the first weeks of operation, with better performance than the solutions used until then.

  • More accurate qualification, which improves the quality of the opportunities passed to sales.
  • More reliable tracking of conversions and return on investment.
  • A smoother customer journey, with instant answers at any hour.

Agents deployed

What runs in production

Geni-Sales

GenLead: inbound request qualification

Analyzes messages from the website and WhatsApp, qualifies the lead against the group's criteria, then passes the record to sales and internal tools. Available 24/7.

24/7

coverage of inbound requests

2 channels

handled by the same agent: website and WhatsApp

2 months

from scoping to production

3 people

on the GENIAL team

Key takeaways

What this story tells other retail networks

When speed decides conversion, the bottleneck isn't the number of salespeople: it's the delay between the customer's message and the moment someone picks it up. An agent that qualifies around the clock removes that delay without changing the size of the team.

The other lesson is measurement. By connecting the agent to the CRM and Google Ads, the group stopped estimating the return on its campaigns and started seeing it, so it can allocate its acquisition budget on real conversions.

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Your inbound requests deserve an instant answer

Thirty minutes to assess, on your volumes and channels, what a qualification agent would change in your conversion rate.

Geni, the GENIAL AI agent, and Alicia

Frequently asked questions

Scoping takes 2 to 3 weeks and ends with a prioritized roadmap; deploying the first agents takes 4 to 6 weeks. The first measurable time savings usually show up after two to three months.

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