Flai just raised $27 million to keep car dealerships talking to AI instead of humans.
Flai builds AI software that handles scheduling for car dealerships, and it just closed a $27 million Series A round. The funding lands after a year in which the company's revenue grew 20x. That growth is largely driven by its core product: AI that now books about 50,000 dealership appointments a month, standing in for the humans who used to answer the phone and work the calendar.
Dealership back offices are a mundane but massive market: every service appointment and sales walk-in still runs through phone calls and scheduling software from decades ago. If Flai's AI is really handling 50,000 bookings a month, it's proof that generic automation, not a flashy chatbot, might be the first real wedge for AI in car retail. A 20x revenue jump in a year suggests dealerships are willing to hand over this chokepoint fast, once the tool actually works.
Call it vertical AI's least glamorous success story yet: nobody's demoing a dealership scheduler on stage, but someone's finally booking the appointment.