## Dealer Vote Solidifies STELLA Technology As Leading Innovator

Tampa, Florida – April 22, 2022 -- STELLA Automotive AI, provider of high-end conversational AI technology for automotive dealerships, was selected by automotive dealers as the winner of the 5th Kain Automotive Shark Tank Contest. [STELLA](/) is proud to be the recipient of this prestigious award during its first year in Automotive. It’s especially poignant since this is an award selected by dealership employees themselves.

The 17th Kain Automotive Client and Friends [Workshop](https://kain.auto/kain-workshop-22), held in Lexington, KY this week, featured automotive dealerships from coast to coast and several innovative technology providers. This two-and-a-half-day event brings together OEM representatives, thought leaders and automotive retail solution providers to accelerate success across the industry. Seven new technologies were nominated and evaluated by industry experts prior to the event.  Three were invited to make a pitch to the dealers onsite. Each candidate featured in the Shark Tank, sponsored by [The Presidio Group](https://thepresidiogroup.com/), received seven minutes to demonstrate their product’s capabilities. Audience members then voted on which product was the most innovative for their dealerships. According to David Kain, “each of the businesses originally nominated offers dealers incredible value.  We were excited to see so many impressive ideas make it into an actionable, executable format. STELLA won the day with their sophisticated but simple solution to empowering BDC teams to be more effective.”

With cognitive reasoning and the ability to streamline repetitive customer communication needs, STELLA stood out among the competition. Both franchise and independent automotive dealers can modernize their business processes and lower expenses while consistently offering high caliber customer experiences. Due to industry demand ahead of its official launch, STELLA Automotive AI became operational in dozens of dealerships nationwide this spring. “On behalf of the entire technology team behind STELLA, we are honored to receive this award and delighted that dealers are embracing and succeeding with our conversational AI platform. The best is yet to come!” says Josselyn Boudett, founder and CEO of STELLA Automotive AI.  

Automotive dealers that missed the Kain Automotive Client and Friends Workshop will be able to experience STELLA in action in May at Digital Dealer in Tampa, Florida and at the annual Digital Marketing Strategies Conference in Napa, California. 

### About STELLA Automotive AI
STELLA Automotive AI empowers automotive dealerships to deliver exceptional customer experience through the use of transformative conversational AI technology.  STELLA handles inbound calls, answers questions, finds and books appointments, watches phone lines and takes messages. STELLA is powered by Tiger Sharp AI developed by Telepathy Labs, Inc, a world-class AI technology provider.  With a U.S. headquarters in Tampa, Florida, STELLA helps U.S. dealers increase communication engagement, service appointments and customer satisfaction while saving thousands of hours in management and overhead costs.  For more information, visit our website, like us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Stella.Automotive), [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/stella-automotive-ai/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/StellaforAuto), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftR0XbhcnkHMCKVt5yZIUw), or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stella.automotive/). 


#### About Telepathy Labs
Founded in 2016, Telepathy Labs operates a platform of speech, voice, and semantic technology, supplying AI solutions to Fortune 100 Companies around the world.  Currently serving customers at the enterprise level in Automotive, Hospitality, Real Estate and Heavy Equipment, Telepathy Labs helps businesses streamline data, workflow, and complex systems. For more information, visit our website [https://Telepathy.ai](https://telepathy.ai).

**For Media Inquiries, contact:**

Jennifer Sanford
Vice President of Marketing
[Jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com](mailto:jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com)


STELLA Automotive AI, provider of high-end conversational AI technology for automotive dealerships, was selected by automotive dealers as the winner of the 5th Kain Automotive Shark Tank Contest. STELLA is proud to be the recipient of this prestigious award during its first year in Automotive. It’s especially poignant since this is an award selected by dealership employees themselves.

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STELLA™ Automotive AI Wins Prestigious Automotive Award

## STELLA Automotive AI wins the 2022 AWA Award in the category of Sales Process.

Tampa, Florida – March 15, 2022 – STELLA Automotive AI, a division of Telepathy Labs, announces the receipt of the AWA Award for Sales Process.  

The AWA Sales Process award recognizes STELLA, the conversational AI-enabled voice assistant, for its ability to handle all inbound calls for the dealership, both for Sales and Service.  This ensures a professional customer experience, helps customers quickly get to the right person or department, and schedules customers for appointments with no human intervention.  STELLA can answer frequently asked questions, book appointments, transcribe messages and deliver them via email or text. STELLA provides customers with a professional experience 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at a lower cost than employees or outsourced BDC operations.

STELLA is in market and answering phones for a wide spectrum of dealer groups, handling call centers, service desks, and even receptionist roles.

“STELLA’s platform is a perfect match for the needs of dealers all across the country,” says Brian Pasch, author and industry leader in automotive marketing strategies, online dealer education, marketing analytics, and digital retailing.

According to Jennifer Sanford, vice president of marketing for STELLA Automotive AI, “This recognition is meaningful because the AWA process allows vendors of all sizes to participate.  The AWA team researches the submissions both with dealers and with tech experts to ensure that these awards offer real and meaningful benefit: improving the consumer experience, creating operational efficiencies, and bringing true transparency to marketing.”

To learn more about STELLA AI, dealers can schedule an appointment by calling 727-955-3550 or visiting [www.stellaautomotive.com](www.stellaautomotive.com).

### About STELLA Automotive AI
STELLA Automotive AI empowers automotive dealerships to deliver exceptional customer experience using transformative conversational AI technology. STELLA is a multi-intelligent voice assistant and handles inbound calls, answers questions, finds and books appointments. STELLA is a SAAS platform powered by Tiger Sharp AI developed by Telepathy Labs, Inc, a world-class AI technology provider. With a U.S. headquarters in Tampa, Florida, STELLA helps U.S. dealers increase communication engagement, service appointments and customer satisfaction while saving thousands of hours in management and overhead costs. For more information, visit our website, like us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Stella.Automotive), [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/stella-automotive-ai/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/StellaforAuto), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftR0XbhcnkHMCKVt5yZIUw), or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stella.automotive/). 


#### About Telepathy Labs
Founded in 2016, Telepathy Labs operates a platform of speech, voice, and semantic technology, supplying AI solutions to Fortune 100 Companies around the world.  Currently serving customers at the enterprise level in Automotive, Hospitality, Real Estate and Heavy Equipment, Telepathy Labs helps businesses streamline data, workflow, and complex systems. For more information, visit our website [https://Telepathy.ai](https://telepathy.ai).

#### About AWA
The AWA awards were created in 2008 by Brian Pasch to recognize the best vendors in automotive digital marketing. Since then, the AWAs have become a benchmark in the automotive industry for recognizing innovative products in digital retailing, marketing automation, sales process, dealer websites, digital marketing, fixed operations, F&I, training, website merchandising, conversational commerce, business intelligence tools, video technology, OTT, and reputation management. Brian Pasch, Founder of PCG Companies and Brian Pasch Enterprises (BPE), has been actively involved with automotive franchise dealers since 2005. Brian has authored nine bestselling books for the automotive industry, is an active conference speaker, 20 Group presenter, and coach to both dealers and members of the vendor community. 


**For Media Inquiries, contact:**

Jennifer Sanford
Vice President of Marketing
[Jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com](mailto:jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com)


STELLA Automotive AI wins the 2022 AWA Award in the category of Sales Process.

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BIG WIN for STELLA Automotive AI at the 2022 AWAs!

## STELLA Receptionist manages all inbound phone calls 

Today STELLA Automotive AI, a division of Telepathy Labs, announced the launch of STELLA Receptionist to complement the company’s Service Booking product. The conversational AI-enabled voice assistant can handle all inbound calls for Sales and Service - ensuring that customers quickly get to the right person or department.  STELLA Receptionist can also answer frequently asked questions, book appointments, transcribe messages and deliver them via email or text. STELLA Receptionist provides customers with a professional experience 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at a lower cost than employees or outsourced BDC operations.

STELLA Automotive AI launched its first automotive pilot in March 2021 with a service booking multi-layered intelligent voice assistant. Dealerships found STELLA’s capability to simultaneously answer multiple service calls beneficial to their front-line staff, enabling employees to serve in-dealership customers while the BDC focuses on outbound calls. As the product matured, dealerships asked to deploy STELLA at the reception desk to handle all incoming calls.

With its ability to assimilate and curate information quickly, STELLA added receptionist skills related to managing customer sales needs. STELLA Receptionist is simple to deploy, seamlessly integrates with existing VoiP phone systems and manages the entire phone system. Unlike traditional IVR Phone systems which prompt customers to press “1 for sales, 2 for service”, STELLA simply asks, “How can I help you?”
STELLA Receptionist "learns" with each customer conversation -- becoming better day by day. According to Josselyn Boudett, “STELLA Receptionist is the foundation upon which STELLA Automotive AI will build. It is the first in a series of product launches that will continue to evolve to match retail automotive dealership needs.” 

STELLA provides an improved customer experience through consistent processes, and reduces the time managers would designate to hiring, managing, and training BDC staff. “Installation is simple, requiring only a day or two to get started.  I have seen an immediate improvement in our teams’ productivity without any additional time investment in managing the software. STELLA shows up every day and doesn't call out sick” says Adam Smith of Empire Automotive Group.  

To learn more about STELLA Receptionist and STELLA Service Booking, dealers can schedule an appointment by calling 727-955-3550 or visiting [www.stellaautomotive.com](/products_and_services#schedule)

STELLA will be at booth #6751N at NADA 2022, March 10-13, 2022, in Las Vegas, NV. Product demonstrations are available for scheduling at: [www.stellaautomotive.com/NADA2022](/nada2022). 

### About STELLA Automotive AI
STELLA Automotive AI empowers automotive dealerships to deliver exceptional customer experience using transformative conversational AI technology. STELLA is a multi-intelligent voice assistant and handles inbound calls, answers questions, finds and books appointments. STELLA is a SAAS platform powered by Tiger Sharp AI developed by Telepathy Labs, Inc, a world-class AI technology provider. With a U.S. headquarters in Tampa, Florida, STELLA helps U.S. dealers increase communication engagement, service appointments and customer satisfaction while saving thousands of hours in management and overhead costs. For more information, visit our website, like us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Stella.Automotive), [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/stella-automotive-ai/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/StellaforAuto), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftR0XbhcnkHMCKVt5yZIUw), or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stella.automotive/). 


#### About Telepathy Labs
Founded in 2016, Telepathy Labs operates a platform of speech, voice, and semantic technology, supplying AI solutions to Fortune 100 Companies around the world.  Currently serving customers at the enterprise level in Automotive, Hospitality, Real Estate and Heavy Equipment, Telepathy Labs helps businesses streamline data, workflow, and complex systems. For more information, visit our website [https://Telepathy.ai](https://telepathy.ai).

**For Media Inquiries, contact:**

Jennifer Sanford
Vice President of Marketing
[Jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com](mailto:jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com)

Today STELLA Automotive AI, a division of Telepathy Labs, announced the launch of STELLA Receptionist to complement the company’s Service Booking product. The conversational AI-enabled voice assistant can handle all inbound calls for Sales and Service - ensuring that customers quickly get to the right person or department.  STELLA Receptionist can also answer frequently asked questions, book appointments, transcribe messages and deliver them via email or text. STELLA Receptionist provides customers with a professional experience 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at a lower cost than employees or outsourced BDC operations.

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## Artificial Intelligence Empowering Retail Automotive Dealerships


**Tampa, Florida – February 1, 2022** -- Telepathy Labs, global provider of AI technology for Fortune 100 businesses, announced the launch of [STELLA Automotive AI](/) for retail automotive. STELLA uses a high-end multi-layered intelligent conversational AI technology with cognitive reasoning to streamline repetitive customer communication needs. This allows both franchise and independent car dealers to modernize their business processes and lower expenses, while offering a high caliber customer experience.

Known for building global custom intelligence applications with scalable frameworks, Telepathy Labs stepped into the automotive retail market in late 2020. The company realized they could simplify the service booking process, allowing dealership customers to easily set, confirm or change appointments through proactive and personalized voice calls.  The resulting product became STELLA Service Booking.


STELLA Service Booking picks up the call on the first ring- identifying callers by their phone numbers to anticipate the vehicle needing service.  By maintaining context based on customer histories, STELLA can resolve issues quickly, reducing call times. For those needing additional assistance, STELLA can transfer calls to a dealership employee.
Telepathy Labs partnered with Bayside BMW in March 2021 to curate intelligence offerings for the service drive with STELLA Service Booking.  Bayside BMW consistently ranks in the top 10 BMW dealerships nationwide. With STELLA’s help, the dealership schedules over 400 service appointments per month. Doug Foss, general manager of Bayside BMW says, “At first, we were worried that customers wouldn’t like talking to an AI.  Also, being in the NYC suburbs means our demographic includes a melting pot of nationalities and accents – even our own staff sometimes has difficulty understanding what our customers are saying.”


Less than a year later, STELLA manages over 60% of the dealership’s BDC service calls, enabling the store’s representatives to focus their skills on outbound calls and important customer issues. “Customer satisfaction with STELLA is higher than we expected, with over 75% rating STELLA calls at the 9-10 level.” says Foss. 

Due to industry demand ahead of its official launch, STELLA Automotive AI is operational in dozens of franchised dealerships. According to founder and CEO, [Josselyn Boudett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/boudett/), “Our technology has been in development for five years. This past year proved that STELLA can transform the automotive consumer experience while simultaneously improving the dealership’s bottom line.  We continue to invest in our infrastructure as we position STELLA for further growth and advancement in 2022.”

The company is growing at a rapid pace, hiring in every department to meet demand.  To hone the product’s capabilities for dealer-specific needs, Telepathy Labs hired [Hunter Swift](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunterswift/), 20-year veteran of automotive CRM and digital marketing technology, as the vice president of product.  [Jennifer Sanford](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifersanford/), with ten years of experience marketing automotive retail software, was hired as vice president of marketing and industry relations to lead the company’s marketing efforts. 

To learn more about STELLA AI, dealers can schedule an appointment by calling 727-955-3550 or visiting [www.stellaautomotive.com](/).  

STELLA will be at booth #6751N at NADA 2022, March 10-13, 2022, in Las Vegas, NV. Product demonstrations are available for scheduling at: [www.stellaautomotive.com/NADA2022.](/nada2022) 

### About STELLA Automotive AI
STELLA Automotive AI empowers automotive dealerships to deliver exceptional customer experience using transformative conversational AI technology. STELLA is a multi-intelligent voice assistant and handles inbound calls, answers questions, finds and books appointments. STELLA is a SAAS platform powered by Tiger Sharp AI developed by Telepathy Labs, Inc, a world-class AI technology provider. With a U.S. headquarters in Tampa, Florida, STELLA helps U.S. dealers increase communication engagement, service appointments and customer satisfaction while saving thousands of hours in management and overhead costs. For more information, visit our website, like us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Stella.Automotive), [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/stella-automotive-ai/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/StellaforAuto), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftR0XbhcnkHMCKVt5yZIUw), or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stella.automotive/). 


#### About Telepathy Labs
Founded in 2016, Telepathy Labs operates a platform of speech, voice, and semantic technology, supplying AI solutions to Fortune 100 Companies around the world.  Currently serving customers at the enterprise level in Automotive, Hospitality, Real Estate and Heavy Equipment, Telepathy Labs helps businesses streamline data, workflow, and complex systems. For more information, visit our website [https://Telepathy.ai](https://telepathy.ai).

**For Media Inquiries, contact:**

Jennifer Sanford
Vice President of Marketing
[Jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com](mailto:jennifer.sanford@stellaautomotive.com)

Telepathy Labs, global provider of AI technology for Fortune 100 businesses, announced today the launch of STELLA Automotive AI for retail automotive dealerships. STELLA uses a high-end multi-layered intelligent conversational AI technology with cognitive reasoning to streamline repetitive customer communication needs. This allows both franchise and independent car dealers to modernize their business processes and lower expenses, all while offering a high caliber customer experience.

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