inride Expands Its AI Agent Lineup With Trade Agent Acquire, Now Available, Plus F&I and Service Agents in beta.

New product sends shoppers their trade-in value by text, works the conversation, and books the appointment, day or night, from any trade-in CTA on a dealer's website

BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- inride, the company behind Trade Agent AI, today announced Trade Agent Acquire, an AI agent that responds to every trade-in and value-my-car inquiry on a dealership's website within seconds. Trade Agent Acquire texts the shopper their trade-in value, answers questions, and books the appointment for the dealer's sales floor, 24 hours a day.

Dealers pay to drive shoppers to their websites, and trade-in tools turn that traffic into leads. But many of those leads arrive after hours or wait in a queue behind phone calls and showroom traffic. By the time someone follows up, the shopper has often lost interest or sold their vehicle somewhere else.

Trade Agent Acquire closes that gap. When a shopper values their trade on a dealer's website, the agent:

1. Sends their trade-in value by text or email within seconds, using the number from the dealer's existing valuation tool, so the shopper hears back while they are still engaged.
2. Works the conversation, answering questions, confirming vehicle condition, and handling objections.
3. Books the trade-in appointment and hands it to the sales floor, synced to the dealer's CRM with the full conversation attached.
4. Keeps following up with shoppers who are not ready yet, over days, weeks, and months.

Trade Agent Acquire works with any trade-in form or valuation widget already on a dealer's website, and with any CRM and DMS, so there is no new platform to adopt and nothing to rebuild. Stores can go live in a few days. It gives the sales team booked appointments instead of a backlog, so they can focus on closing.

Trade Agent Acquire runs on the same patent-pending core AI as Trade Agent AI, inride's outbound platform that works a dealer's customers in their DMS and is already proven at over 75 dealer rooftops since launching in February 2026. In early results from Trade Agent AI's integration with ACV's ClearCar in the DC market, 63% of trade-in leads engaged, 44% of conversations happened outside operating hours, and 52% of appointments resulted in an acquisition.

Availability: Trade Agent Acquire is available today to dealerships in the U.S. as a standalone product, and inride has already signed its first dealership customers. Dealers can learn more and book a demo at inride.ai/acquire.

Coming soon: Trade Agent Acquire is the latest in a growing family of inride AI agents for dealerships, all built on the same patent-pending core AI. Two more are already in beta:

• F&I Agent AI: finds owners whose vehicles have no service contract, or whose coverage is about to run out, and texts them protection options in real time for the vehicle's age, mileage, and eligibility.
• Service Agent AI: drives ownership loyalty, reaches owners at maintenance milestones, follows up on declined work and open recalls, and books the appointment in the scheduler the store already runs.

"Dealers don't have a traffic problem. They have a follow-up problem," said Nick Perdikis, CEO of inride. "A shopper who values their trade at 9:47 on a Sunday night is ready to talk right then. Trade Agent Acquire sends them their value and books the appointment in seconds, so the dealer who already paid for that lead is the first one the customer hears from."

About inride

inride AI is the AI company built for automotive retail. Its team combines deep dealership experience with AI product development to build autonomous products that help dealerships acquire more used inventory, book more appointments, and grow without adding headcount. inride's products include Trade Agent AI, which finds the past buyers in a dealer's DMS who are ready to trade and books the appointment, and Trade Agent Acquire, which works every trade-in lead on a dealer's website in seconds. Both run on inride's patent-pending core AI. Trade Agent AI is live at 75+ dealer rooftops, integrates with Tekion and the Fortellis marketplace, and is the first agentic AI platform approved for Ford's Tier III co-op program. inride is headquartered in Bethesda, MD. Learn more at inride.ai.

SOURCE inride