Decades in the business.
Years ahead in AI.

Automotive veterans building the AI future for dealerships.

Founders & Contributors

Meet the Team

Clay

Clay

Co-Founder / CEO

30yr Tech Exec, Author, & AI Thought Leader

Steve

Steve

Co-Founder / President

43yr Dealer Management & F&I Leadership

Chris

Chris

Co-Founder / CTO

Full-Stack Engineer & AI DevOps Innovator

Grant

Grant

Co-Founder / COO

Dealer & FinTech Vendor Integration


Contributors

Carol

Carol

Marketing Coordinator

PR, Events, & Culinary Instructor

Gabriel

Gabriel

Analyst / Contributor

UC Berkeley Engineering & Agentic AI Pioneer

Our Story

Generations of Expertise. Decades of Trust.

Thirty years ago, a father and son started building CRM technology for auto dealers. That partnership launched a career spanning automotive, healthcare, and banking technology — with ventures built, scaled, and acquired along the way.

Today, that same foundation of trust powers Maximum Automotive Intelligence. Our team brings together a 43-year veteran of dealership management, a 30-year technology executive, operations leadership forged in dealership Internet departments, a CTO shaped by FinTech, and the next generation already contributing from Silicon Valley.

You might notice something about this team: we're family. Father and son. Brothers. Life-long friends. And the next generation, already contributing.

We understand family businesses because we are one. Like the dealers we serve, we built this company on relationships that span decades — relationships where trust isn't a contract, it's a given.

Core Beliefs

What drives us

Eight principles that guide everything we build.

Code is commoditized
01

Code is now a commodity. Context is king.

We embrace the reality that software development is commoditizing through AI. Our engineering expertise now lies in orchestrating coding agents with precise context — multiplying output without diminishing craft.

Human qualities
02

In the age of AI, distinctly human qualities become our competitive edge.

Vision, timing, integrity, empathy, curiosity, imagination — these irreplaceable human traits aren't threatened by AI. They're amplified by it. The winners will be those who best combine human creativity with machine capability.

Enduring transformation
03

The tech will change tomorrow. The transformation will endure.

Today's AI embodiment will be obsolete in months. We must architect for perpetual change to play a key role in a wider infrastructure initiative.

Future of work
04

We're building the Future of Work for automotive retail.

Features are fleeting, but our mission is permanent: creating meaningful human-AI collaboration in dealerships, measured by new KPIs that capture compound intelligence. This positions us for a century of workplace evolution, not just the next product cycle.

Enhancement over replacement
05

We choose enhancement over replacement.

We don't displace existing human teams, nor compete with existing vendors. Instead, we extend a dealership's team and expand a vendor's user-base to include AI coworkers.

Strategic and tactical intersection
06

We operate at the intersection of strategic vision and tactical reality.

We understand AI's trajectory at 30,000 feet, but we also know dealerships at ground level — their people, processes, and pain points. This dual fluency is our differentiator.

Compound intelligence
07

Compound intelligence will deliver exponential gains in both performance and quality of human life.

When humans and AI truly collaborate, productivity doesn't just improve — it compounds. The same force that drives performance gains also restores work-life balance, creating sustainable excellence.

AI works while humans live
08

AI works while humans live.

We deploy AI around the clock to handle the repetitive and routine, liberating dealership teams for what matters: meaningful connections with customers, collaboration with colleagues, and time with family.

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