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Reputation · Review + sentiment

Every review, answered. Every rating, defended.

The Reputation Agent listens to every Google, DealerRater, Cars.com, and Facebook review in real time — drafts an on-brand response inside 12 minutes, flags the ones that need a manager, and quietly lifts your star rating with the customers who already love you.

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Reputation · always-on
12 min
Median response time
+0.4★
Avg. rating lift · 90 days
94%
Reviews answered
24/7
Sentiment monitoring
Latest signal · Agent finished its run and posted to your Command Center.
Runs live inside
CDK GlobalTekionDealertrackReynolds & ReynoldsPBS
How it runs

A repeatable loop, not a one-off script.

  1. 1

    Listen

    Polls Google, DealerRater, Cars.com, Facebook, Yelp and your CSI feeds for every new review, mention, and survey response.

  2. 2

    Classify

    Scores sentiment, tags the department (Sales / Service / F&I), and matches the review back to the deal jacket or RO when possible.

  3. 3

    Draft

    Writes an on-brand response grounded on the actual deal / RO — no generic 'thanks for your feedback' — with named-employee credit where earned.

  4. 4

    Approve & post

    Manager approves in the queue; the agent posts to the platform, notifies the employee, and logs the response in the audit timeline.

Anatomy of the agent

What it reads, how it thinks, what it ships.

Inputs
  • Live review streams from Google, DealerRater, Cars.com, Facebook, Yelp
  • Post-sale and post-service CSI surveys
  • Deal jackets and repair orders for context matching
  • Employee roster with role, department, and pronunciation
  • Rooftop brand voice, escalation matrix, and legal-safe language rules
Reasoning
  • Never fabricates facts — every response cites something in the deal / RO
  • Escalates any review mentioning safety, discrimination, or legal risk to a human immediately
  • Prefers first-person response from the named employee when CSI attributes praise
  • Suppresses response when the review is under active BBB / attorney dispute
  • Auto-requests a review only from customers with a 9+ CSI and no active complaint
Outputs
  • Drafted, on-brand response for every review — pending manager approval
  • Sentiment + department + employee tags on every review
  • Escalation ticket for any review scoring below the risk threshold
  • Weekly reputation digest: rating trend, unanswered count, top praised employees
  • Review-request cadence to high-CSI customers — Google-policy compliant
What lands in your inbox

A real recommendation, not a dashboard to hunt through.

Every run posts a decision-ready card to your Command Center — with the math shown, the writeback pre-wired, and a one-tap path to approve, edit, or hold.

Reputation · Draft response
Just now
Google · 2★ · Service · RO #48221
Customer: J. Rivera · 2021 Toyota Camry · Advisor: M. Chen
Sentiment
Negative · wait time complaint
Matched RO
3.4 hrs actual vs. 2.0 hrs quoted · loaner declined
Escalation
Auto-routed to Service Manager · SLA 2 hrs
Drafted response
Personal apology · offers detail + free oil change · names advisor
Legal review
Clear · no admission of fault, no PII disclosed
Projected impact
Public reply within SLA · 63% odds of rating revision
Drafted 9 minutes after the review posted. Awaiting Service Manager approval — one click posts to Google and pings advisor M. Chen with the resolution playbook.
Interactive · Reputation Agent

From new review to posted reply — in twelve minutes.

Watch a real 2★ Google review flow through ingest, classification, drafting, risk review, and manager approval.

Scenario · 9:14 AM · Google Business Profile emits a new 2★ review on Bell Toyota — customer J. Rivera, RO #48221, matched against yesterday's 2021 Camry service visit with M. Chen.
Step 1 of 5 · Listener · cross-platform
Signal ingested

The Reputation Agent polls Google, DealerRater, Cars.com, Facebook, and Yelp on a 60-second cadence. A new 2★ Google review lands and is fingerprinted against the last 90 days of ROs and deal jackets.

consumes ←review.posted · google
Source
Google Business Profile · Bell Toyota
Rating
2 of 5
Author
J. Rivera · verified visit
Detected at
9:14:02 · 47s after Google publish
Onboarding · Setup checklist

Get the Reputation Agent live in about 45 minutes.

Walk through the required data sources and permissions in order. Your progress is saved locally, so you can hand off any step to the right owner.

Required steps
0/8
0% complete · your progress is saved on this device.
  1. Data sources
    • Verified Google Business Profile for every rooftop
    • Location IDs for each rooftop (one per franchise brand)
    • At least one Owner or Manager on the GBP location
    Permissions & scopes
    • OAuth scope: business.manage (reviews.read + reviews.reply)
    • User granting access must be a GBP Owner or Manager
    • Add connector-gateway.lovable.dev as an authorized redirect URI
Investor metrics · Reputation ROI

The board-ready case for the Reputation Agent.

Modeled from a 20-rooftop reference cohort over the first 12 months post-launch. Baselines pulled from public Google review data + CSI benchmarks; projections use conservative mid-case assumptions.

Google star rating
4.6★+0.4★
Baseline 4.2★
Compounds monthly · rating floor moves as low-star reviews get answered and recovered.
Median response time
12 min−99%
Baseline 38 hrs
Human approval kept in the loop. SLA breach rate drops from 61% to under 4%.
Reviews answered
94%+63 pts
Baseline 31%
Backlog cleared in the first 30 days. Ongoing coverage across all 6 platforms.
Attributable GP lift
$41k / moper rooftop
Baseline
From rating-driven VDP traffic + service retention + CSI-tied OEM bonus.
Rating trend · 12 months

Star rating: baseline vs. with Reputation Agent

Google avg · 20-rooftop cohort
Response-time distribution

Time-to-public-reply, % of reviews

Last 90 days · post-launch
Per-rooftop economics

$493k of annualized lift per rooftop — from one agent.

Rating moves lift VDP click-through and closer rates; faster CSI recovery preserves OEM bonuses and service retention. Net of platform cost, the Reputation Agent pays back in under 30 days.

Front-end GP lift
$28k / mo
+0.4★ → +6.8% VDP CTR → 11 incremental deals
Fixed-ops retention
$9k / mo
CSI recovery raises RO return rate by 3.1 pts
OEM CSI bonus
$4k / mo
Sustained CSI above tier threshold across all brands
Model assumptions
  • Baseline avg. rating 4.2★, 180 reviews / mo / rooftop
  • VDP CTR elasticity of 1.7% per 0.1★ (industry benchmark)
  • Avg. front-end GP $2,540 · avg. F&I GP $1,180
  • OEM CSI bonus $48k / yr at threshold, pro-rated by month
  • Agent cost fully loaded, human approval labor included
Source: Pitlane reference cohort (Jan 2025 – present), Google Places API, DealerRater public data, and dealer-provided DMS extracts. Full model available under NDA.
Playbooks it runs

Named plays, on a schedule you set.

Add your own · edit any of these · pause per rooftop.
01
Playbook

12-minute first response

When
Any new public review posts on Google, DealerRater, Cars.com, Facebook, or Yelp
Does
Drafts a context-grounded response tied to the deal / RO and queues it for one-click manager approval
Outcome
94% of reviews answered inside the platform SLA — up from ~30% baseline
02
Playbook

Negative-review triage

When
Review scores 1–2★ or trips the risk classifier (safety, legal, discrimination)
Does
Escalates to the department manager, opens a resolution ticket, and drafts a private outreach in parallel
Outcome
Cuts time-to-first-contact from days to under 2 hours; measurable rating recovery
03
Playbook

5-star amplification

When
High-CSI customer completes a survey with 9–10 score and no complaint
Does
Sends a policy-compliant, single-touch Google review request with the salesperson's or advisor's name pre-filled
Outcome
Steady lift in review volume without violating Google's incentive policy
04
Playbook

Employee credit routing

When
Review names or clearly attributes praise to a specific employee
Does
Tags the employee, drops the review into their profile, and notifies the department manager for recognition
Outcome
Turns public praise into a retention + coaching signal, not just a rating point
Pitlane+

Connect your Google Business Profile and CSI feed — the Reputation Agent starts drafting replies for every unanswered review inside an hour, and your first reputation digest lands next Monday.

Deal-jacket-grounded replies

Every response references something real — the vehicle, the advisor, the RO — because the agent reads the underlying deal or repair order before it writes.

Risk classifier

Automatically flags reviews mentioning safety, discrimination, legal action, or regulatory keywords and routes them to a human before any public reply.

Cross-platform listening

Google Business Profile, DealerRater, Cars.com, Facebook, Yelp, and your CSI provider — one unified inbox with source-of-truth attribution.

On-brand voice

Learns your rooftop's tone from the last 90 days of manager-approved replies. No canned 'we appreciate your feedback' templates.

We went from answering maybe a third of our Google reviews to answering ninety-plus percent, inside twelve minutes, in our voice. Our rating climbed four-tenths of a star in a quarter — and every advisor knows when a customer names them.
M
Marcus Bell
Fixed Ops Director, Bell Automotive Group
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  • Inputs, reasoning, outputs
  • Sample recommendation card
  • Named playbooks & outcomes

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Answers

The questions dealers ask us first.

Does the agent post replies automatically?+

No. Every public reply routes through the same approvals queue as our pricing and F&I actions. Managers approve in one click — and can edit inline before posting.

How does it stay compliant with Google's review policies?+

Review requests are single-touch, non-incentivized, and only go to customers who scored 9+ on CSI with no active complaint. We never gate requests behind a filter for positive-only feedback.

What platforms does it monitor?+

Google Business Profile, DealerRater, Cars.com, Facebook, and Yelp out of the box. CSI feeds from most major providers plug in via DealerSchema.

How does it handle negative reviews?+

The risk classifier escalates any review touching safety, legal, or discrimination language to a human within seconds. For standard negative reviews, it drafts a private-outreach note in parallel with the public reply so resolution starts before the reply posts.

Free 14-day pilot

Every star, defended. Every reply, in your voice.

Connect your Google Business Profile and CSI feed — the Reputation Agent starts drafting replies for every unanswered review inside an hour, and your first reputation digest lands next Monday.

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