Along with a technology partnership to help dealer groups monitor and process their expenses more effectively, Tekion on Tuesday unveiled four new innovations driven by artificial intelligence as part of its agentic AI suite, built on the Tekion AI platform.

Announced during Tekion’s inaugural conference, T1 Pro, Salesperson AI, F&I Manager AI, and Accounts Payable AI are expanding Tekion’s AI portfolio across automotive retail operations.

Built on real dealership business context and trained on the full lifecycle of automotive retail, Tekion’s new AI agents are designed to act as intelligent teammates that can help teams move faster, reduce manual errors, stay aligned across departments, and focus on what matters most: customers.

Joining Scheduler AI, Technician AI, and Service AI, the new AI innovations include:

—T1 Pro: Tekion’s unified AI interface and agent orchestration layer within its AI-native Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) platform. It can find what matters, recommend next steps, and help teams take action across dealership workflows with greater speed, alignment, and efficiency.

—Salesperson AI: The tool can engages leads quickly with relevant responses on pricing, availability, and vehicle details, while helping sales teams drive follow-up and appointment setting. The result is faster response times, stronger engagement, and more opportunities to convert.

—F&I Manager AI: The tool can help F&I teams catch missing documents, incomplete checklist items, and potential compliance issues before submission, reducing funding delays and improving consistency in the deal workflow.

—Accounts Payable AI: The tool can automate invoice processing by capturing key details, recommending coding, matching purchase orders, flagging discrepancies, and routing approvals based on dealership rules. The result is faster processing, greater visibility, and more efficient accounting operations.

Tekion highlighted these innovations are advancing its vision for AI-native automotive retail, where workflows across the dealership are more connected, informed, and efficient.

With AI supporting sales, service, and operations, Tekion founder and CEO Jay Vijayan said dealers can increase throughput, improve profitability, and make better decisions using accurate, unified data.

Vijayan sees the result as a dealership that runs smarter, adapts faster, and frees employees to focus on higher-value customer interactions.

“AI isn’t a trend car buyers are waiting on. It’s already shaping how they shop, decide, and transact,” Vijayan said. “It is redefining automotive retail, and Tekion is building the foundation for AI-native dealerships.

“Every Tekion AI agent is grounded in real dealership data and context, from customer interactions and service appointments to trade-in decisions and repair orders,” he continued. “That real-world context is what makes our AI relevant, actionable, and uniquely valuable to dealers.”

Details of Tekion partnership with Brex

In other company news at its conference, Brex announced a partnership with Tekion to launch Brex for Tekion Spend.

Built directly into Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC), Brex said it is the first fully embedded corporate card and spend management solution that can delivers a native spend management experience designed for the operational complexity of modern automotive dealer groups.

The companies acknowledged dealer groups are some of the most operationally complex businesses in the country, spanning multiple rooftops and entities with service, parts, F&I, and ops all generating spend daily.

Brex and Tekion said most dealer groups also are still running on shared owner cards, personal credit lines, and AP workflows that cut more than 100,000 checks a year at $5 each, often to pay invoices of just $50 or less.

The companies added existing card programs have no native connections to dealership management workflows, leaving finance teams to manually match transactions against repair orders, parts invoices, and vendor payments across every store.

Tekion Spend, built on Brex Embedded, can address these challenges directly.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, Brex brings the speed and technology of a modern fintech platform backed by the scale and institutional credibility of a leading national bank with deep roots in the automotive industry.

The solution integrates Brex’s API-driven infrastructure layer and global corporate card capabilities directly into Tekion ARC.

The companies said every transaction is automatically mapped to the corresponding ARC record in real time, and spend controls are enforced at the rooftop, department, or individual level.

Furthermore, Brex for Tekion Spend gives dealer groups access to:

—Real-time reconciliation: Every transaction auto-matches to its originating ARC record, eliminating manual reconciliation and accelerating daily operations and visibility.

—Instant card issuance: Issue Brex cards directly inside Tekion ARC workflows for fuel, vendor invoices, and other purchases without the context switching.

—Replace paper checks and unlock working capital: Move vendor payments off manual check runs and ACH onto Brex cards to cut per-transaction costs, earn rewards on everyday dealer spend, and free up credit-backed float.

—Built-in policy controls: Cards are issued with pre-coded merchant, category, amount, and entity limits, all customized to the dealerships’ operations.

—Manage every rooftop from one account: Dealer groups control cards, budgets, entities, and policy across every store in the same way their organization is structured, with full visibility for the CFO and the right local autonomy for each GM.

Autumn Ross is chief financial officer at Ewing Automotive Group.

“As a dealership utilizing Tekion, having a Brex spend card natively embedded within our ARC DMS is exactly what modern dealerships like ours have been missing,” Ross said in a news release from Brex.

“Full visibility, accountability, and more efficient workflows, seamlessly integrated into how we already function. The redundancies eliminated and efficiencies gained translate to real, measurable savings that go straight to the bottom line,” Ross continued.

Brex for Tekion Spend is currently available to select ARC dealers, with a broader rollout planned across Tekion’s dealer network through the remainder of the year. Art Levy is chief business officer at Brex.

“Brex Embedded exists to bring best-in-class financial infrastructure to companies and customers inside the platforms they already depend on,” Levy said. “Tekion Spend puts Brex’s global card infrastructure, real-time spend controls, and automated reconciliation directly into the platform dealers use every day, so finance teams spend less time on reconciliation and more time running the business.”

Tekion co-founder and COO Guru Sankararaman added, “Building Tekion Spend’s card program on Brex means dealers can manage every dollar of operational card spend right inside the platform they use to run their business.

“Embedding native spend management into our platform was the natural next step in Tekion’s mission to deliver a truly end-to-end platform for automotive retail,” Sankararaman went on to say.

For more information, visit https://www.brex.com/brex-for-tekion.