- Controls
- Vendor decisions that touch store profitability and anything that needs the owner's signature.
How to open: Ask which department they would fix first if they had the time, and what has been tried.
Automotive appointment setting: meetings with dealer principals, fixed ops and fleet buyers
Dealerships and fleets hear from vendors every day, and most of it goes to voicemail. The meetings that happen are the ones tied to a real problem in a specific department: service capacity, a software contract ending, a fleet that costs too much to run. We book those meetings for software providers, parts suppliers, service vendors and fleet providers selling into the auto business.
Qualified automotive meetings on your calendar, booked by U.S.-based SDRs under your name.
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The sales floor behind your automotive program
- $1B+in client revenue generated
- 100,000+meetings booked a year
- 2,000clients
- 17+years on the phones
- 4.8 / 5on Google, 4.6 on Clutch, 4.64 with the BBB
Abstrakt company figures as of October 2026; ratings as published on Google, Clutch and the BBB, September 2026. See client results.
What we fix
Why automotive pipelines stall, and what changes
Vendor fatigue at dealerships
The SDR opens with one department's specific problem and asks questions, instead of pitching a product the GM has heard a dozen versions of.
Decisions split between store and group
We map the store GM, the department head and the group-level contact, and work them in the right order.
Reps spending their days driving between stores
Your SDR fills the calendar with qualified meetings so field reps spend time in front of buyers who expect them.
Long contracts that rarely open
Nurture keeps you in contact until a renewal, an acquisition or a leadership change creates the opening.
How it works
How we fill your automotive calendar
- 01
Build the list
Target dealerships, groups, shops or fleets in your territory by brand, rooftop count or fleet size, with the department heads and executives who buy.
- 02
Run the outreach
A U.S.-based SDR team works phone, email and LinkedIn under your company name, speaking to the department you serve in its own terms.
- 03
Book qualified meetings
Every meeting is with the right company, the right contact and a real timing reason, booked straight onto your calendar.
- 04
Nurture the rest
Accounts locked into a current vendor stay in a follow-up cadence until the contract or the leadership changes.
Every meeting clears three checks before it reaches you
- Right companyAn account that fits the work you want.
- Right contactSomeone who signs or shapes the decision.
- Right timingA stated need or a reason to talk now.
Then it is graded on our 25-point 5 Star Scorecard. What counts as a qualified appointment.
We take one automotive client per territory
If yours is open, a strategist can walk you through the target list, the outreach and the meeting number on one call.
Where the pipeline comes from
The accounts an automotive program calls
- Franchise dealership groups
Multi-rooftop groups standardize vendors across stores, so one decision at the group level can cover many locations.
- Single-point and independent dealerships
The dealer principal and GM make decisions quickly, and many are open to a vendor who can show a clear effect on a department.
- Collision centers and independent repair shops
Shops and multi-shop operators buy parts, equipment, software and services, and capacity is usually the constraint.
- Commercial fleets
Service companies, utilities and delivery operators run trucks and vans that need acquisition, upfitting, maintenance, telematics and fuel programs.
- Municipal and public fleets
Police, public works and school transportation buy through formal cycles and look at total cost of ownership across the fleet.
- Rental, leasing and used vehicle operators
High vehicle turnover creates steady demand for reconditioning, transport, inspection and remarketing services.
Who decides
The people behind an automotive buying decision
- Controls
- Service, parts and body shop vendors, equipment and the tools technicians use.
How to open: Ask how far out service appointments are booked and where bays or technician hours are being lost.
- Controls
- Vehicle acquisition, maintenance vendors, telematics and replacement cycles.
How to open: Ask how they decide when a vehicle gets replaced and what downtime costs a crew.
- Controls
- Contracts across stores or departments, renewal timing and vendor consolidation.
How to open: Ask which vendor agreements renew this year and whether they are bid or rolled over.
Reasons to call
What opens an automotive account
- Acquisitions and new rooftops
Dealer groups that buy stores bring them onto group-wide vendors, which opens a decision across every new location.
- Software and vendor contract renewals
DMS, CRM, digital retail and service platform contracts run on terms. The months before renewal are when a group will compare.
- Service capacity problems
Long appointment waits, technician shortages and idle bays push fixed ops directors toward equipment, scheduling and process vendors.
- Fleet replacement and budget cycles
Fleets plan acquisitions and maintenance contracts around annual budgets and vehicle age, so the calendar is predictable.
- New leadership in a store or fleet
A new GM, service director or fleet manager reviews vendors in their first months and is open to change.
Our terms
Why companies hand us the phones
Program commitments
Program expectations and commitments are defined in your agreement. Before launch we agree on what a qualified meeting is, who we call and how results are reported.
Exclusive to your territory
One automotive client per territory. We will not run the same program for your direct competitor in your territory.
A U.S.-based SDR team
Your SDR works under your company's name from our St. Louis campus, home to 500+ U.S.-based team members.
Every meeting graded
Every booked meeting is graded on a 25-point scorecard before it reaches your calendar. Grade a sample call yourself.
Straight answers
What we hear before a program starts
“Our best work comes from referrals.”
Keep every one of them. Referrals close well, but they do not arrive on a schedule and they never reach the accounts that have not heard of you. Outbound adds a source you control, under your name, so a slow referral quarter does not turn into a slow year.
“Our buyers do not answer cold calls.”
Most do not, the first time. That is why your SDR works phone, email and LinkedIn together and keeps going after the first no. Meetings come from persistence and a specific reason to talk, not a clever script.
“We tried an appointment setter and the meetings were junk.”
Then nobody pinned down what a meeting was. Before launch we agree on the definition with you: right company, right contact, right timing. Every meeting is graded on our 25-point 5 Star Scorecard before it reaches your calendar.
“We could hire our own SDR.”
You can. Then the recruiting, training, data, dialer and management are yours, and a hire that does not work out costs months before you know it. With us the SDR, the data and the management come with the program. Program expectations and commitments are defined in your agreement.
Customer results
Client results, published only with approval
We publish a client result after the client approves it and the figure has a period. There is no approved automotive story yet, so we are not showing one. The Success library has approved stories from other industries, and a strategist can introduce you to a current client on request.
Calculate my opportunity
What an automotive pipeline takes, in your numbers
Set a monthly meeting goal and your own conversion rates. Green tags are Abstrakt history, yellow is a broader cross-industry benchmark, gray tags are your inputs. Value appears once you enter your own average.
Illustrative math from your inputs. It updates as you type.
- 1,000dials a month
- 48dials every working day
- 2proposals a month
- 0.4wins a month, on average
- 4.8wins from 12 months at this pace
- 96meetings over 12 months
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Enter your average first-year deal value to see contract value. We do not fill in a number for you.
First-year deal value won each month
First-year deal value from 12 months of wins
How this works: appointments x dials per appointment = outreach, spread over 21 working days. Appointments x your proposal rate x win rate = wins. Wins x your value = contract value: what signed work is worth, not revenue recognized. Fractions are monthly averages. Not a forecast, a quote or a promise.
Decide with the facts
See how Abstrakt works for automotive
Abstrakt at a Glance answers the five questions buyers ask before they sign: how it works, what clients got, what calls sound like, what reviewers say and what it costs.
Program commitments
Program expectations and commitments are defined in your agreement. Before launch we agree on what a qualified automotive meeting is, who we call and how results are reported.
Exclusive to your territory
One client per trade per territory: we will not run the same program for your direct competitor in your territory.
Pricing
Outbound BDR programs: starting at $5,000 per month. See what a program includes.
Beyond the calls
What your automotive buyers see after the first conversation
Our SDRs open the door. Our creative and inbound teams make sure what a buyer finds next, your website and the material your reps send, closes the gap.
Sales collateral Sell sheets, case studies and decks for dealer principals The one-pager in the follow-up email, the case study they forward upstairs, the deck for the first meeting. See the collateral portfolio →
Websites and inbound A website that turns automotive searches into calls Inbound SDR builds the site, content and search presence that turn interest into conversations your team can work. Shown: Polymatic. See Inbound SDR →
Questions
Automotive appointment setting, answered
Is this for dealerships selling cars to consumers?
No. This program is business to business: companies that sell products and services to dealerships, repair shops and fleets, and dealerships or providers selling vehicles and services to commercial fleets. If you run a dealership and want marketing aimed at car shoppers, see our automotive marketing page at /abstrakt-automotive/.
What can outbound generate meetings for?
Dealership software and digital retail tools, service and parts equipment, reconditioning and transport, F&I products and services, fleet vehicles, upfitting, maintenance and telematics programs.
Who does the SDR call?
Dealer principals and GMs, fixed ops and service directors, fleet managers, and group controllers or procurement.
Will you work for a competitor of mine?
No. We take one automotive client per territory, so your territory and strategy stay yours.
One partner. Multiple ways to grow.
Sales development is the core of what we do. Search and sales collateral support it, so the buyer hears the same story on the call, on your website and in the follow-up.
Core sales development
- This service is part of
Outbound BDR
A BDR team that builds the target list for your trade and territory, runs phone, email, direct mail and LinkedIn as one campaign, and grades every meeting before you get it.
Pricing starting at $5,000 per month See Outbound BDR -
Enterprise SDR/BDR
Dedicated SDR/BDR teams for Fortune 1000 and large enterprise sales: named accounts, new markets and channel partner recruitment, backed by research from Abstrakt Intelligence.
Custom pricing See Enterprise SDR/BDR
Supporting growth solutions
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Inbound SDR
A website of up to 100 pages, local SEO and a new blog every business day, built to get you found on Google and cited in AI answers.
Packages starting at $1,000 per month See Inbound SDR -
Brand Boost
Sell sheets, case studies, pitch decks, trade show materials and video that tell the same story as the call.
Packages starting at $500 per month See Brand Boost
Get Outbound BDR, Inbound SDR and Brand Boost together, starting at $6,500 per month
One team runs the outbound calls, the website and search, and the sales collateral, so every touch tells the same story. Enterprise SDR/BDR is priced custom, to the size of the dedicated team.
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