We co-created and launched a Customer Insights platform with Toyota Dealers across the United States

The Opportunity

In 2018, Invoke hosted an ideation workshop with Toyota to brainstorm ideas to help improve their Dealer's digital experience and workflow. The problem? The Toyota Financial Services team had valuable customer data that they couldn’t put in the hands of Dealers, that they could use in resale and retention efforts.

What we built

After speaking to Dealers in multiple Dealerships, Invoke conceptualized Signal— a Customer Insights Platform that is now used daily at all 1,500+ Toyota Dealerships across the United States.  
  1. In Workshop sessions, we discovered an opportunity to create a digital product that supported prioritized and personalized dealer interactions with customers by enabling real-time collaboration and intelligence with process automation,  data consolidation, and campaigning actions

  2. We built a clickable, interactive prototype of the proposed MVP, a platform for Dealers to look up and be notified of Customer insights and intent 

  3. We conducted live validation sessions with Toyota Dealers from across multiple U.S. Dealerships. Toyota’s true customers are not the people that drive the cars, it’s the dealers themselves. We took our concepts directly to dealers with useful and directive validation sessions. This also put us in a position of selling and communicating the product’s value alongside Toyota

  4. Created product development roadmap on a now, next, later timeline

  5. Pilot program launched with a handful of Toyota Dealerships

1,500+ Dealerships

Live and operational across all Toyota Dealerships in the US

7+ Year Partnership

Invoke’s working relationship with Toyota

Centralized Data

Access to Signal data is an integral part of end-to-end vehicle sales for Dealers

Outcome

  1. From Concept to Mass Market - From focusing on a core problem, workshopping solutions, being scrappy with validation through proof of concepts and prototypes. We were able to launch a platform that is used by all Toyota dealerships today, with a proven track record of increasing a Dealer's (and Toyota’s) bottom line

  2. Connected Dealers with what their Customers actually needed - Enabling stronger dealer-to-customer relationships through accuracy, intelligence, and automation

  3. Long Term Partnership - We have continued our working relationship with Toyota, taking our scrappy approach to other opportunities throughout the organization

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