Conversational AI for automotive dealership sales and customer engagement
Matador builds a conversational AI platform purpose-built for car dealerships, with GPT at its core and a data stack built for scale: Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Redshift, and ClickHouse power real-time pipelines and AI workflows. The company is actively scaling its data infrastructure (evident from projects around Kafka-based streaming, data contracts, and event-driven architecture) while migrating ERP from QuickBooks Online to NetSuite—a shift suggesting operational maturation as headcount and deal volume grow.
Matador delivers conversational AI solutions to automotive dealerships, automating lead engagement, outreach, and follow-up across SMS and other channels. The platform handles customer interactions end-to-end, personalizing conversations and routing opportunities to sales teams. The company operates from Montreal with a lean, senior-heavy team focused on data infrastructure, product, and engineering. Core technical operations run on AWS, with event streaming (Kafka), relational and NoSQL storage (PostgreSQL, MongoDB), and data warehousing (BigQuery, Redshift) supporting real-time AI inference and customer interaction logs.
Matador uses GPT, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, LangChain, and LlamaIndex. Data pipelines run on Kafka with schema management via Avro and Protocol Buffers.
Active projects include real-time data pipeline architecture, AutomitiveGPT platform roadmap, Matador Superhuman AI development, event-driven streaming data architecture, and NetSuite ERP implementation.
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