Engagement Intelligence

Engage more.
Engage better.

We are the expertise and technology engine behind the OEMs, technology companies, trainers, and consultants who serve automotive dealers.

Our Clients

The brands dealers rely on are built on our engagement intelligence.

Heartbeat Labs doesn't make the services dealers buy, we make them better.

Ford Nissan NADA Penske Maritz
OEMToyota
OEMFord
AI TechnologyImpel AI
Mystery ShoppingMaritz CX
Dealer SolutionsPinnacle Dealer Services
Training & ContentApplied Concepts
Enterprise CXMaritz
AssociationsNADA · MRAA
Holly Markel, Co-Founder of Heartbeat Labs

SPARKPLUG · Customer Experience

Holly Markel

The person behind change acceleration.

Customer experience strategist whose work earned national attention on ABC's Nightline. More than a decade advising dealerships and OEM programs for Subaru, Nissan, Acura, Honda, and GM.

Created the industry's first dealership- and BDC-specific DISC assessment.

Our Successes

Measurement that moves real performance.

26yrs

Moving Real Performance

Decades of dealer-floor execution stand behind every recommendation we make.

7

Platforms

OEMs, AI vendors, and training firms put their name on the intelligence we build behind them.

71

NPS on Reporting & Training

Coaching that gets used, not reports that sit in an inbox. Apple iPhone has a NPS of <71… just saying :)

5,000+

Dealers Engaged

Direct-to-dealer feedback on responsiveness, engagement, and process — gathered first-hand from the floor, not inferred from a panel.

Our Tech Stack

A tech stack unique to the experts that support automotive dealers.

Tools that cannot be licensed anywhere else. This is proprietary engagement infrastructure — simulation, signal, and applied AI — built here, and deployed by our partners under their own name.

White-label ready CRM + API native Ships under your brand
01
Diagnose

Omnichannel Shopper Simulation

An always-on fleet of automotive-trained shoppers and AI-modeled buyer personas probes every channel your dealers answer on — then pinpoints the exact moment engagement breaks.

  • Voice
  • SMS
  • Chat
  • Web form
  • Walk-in
02
Diagnose

Unscripted Reality Capture

Real buyers. No script, no tell. We capture what actually happens in the lane and on the line — the friction a checklist audit is structurally incapable of finding.

  • Live shops
  • Zero-script
  • Ground truth
03
Connect

Conversation Signal Grid

Every call, text, chat, and form collapses into one scored signal stream — and every miss fires a coaching moment straight into the CRM while the lead is still warm.

  • Unified capture
  • Auto-scoring
  • CRM triggers
04
Enable

Behavioral Fit Engine

Dealership-native behavioral modeling that predicts who wins in which seat before you hire — then hands the manager the exact words to coach them tomorrow morning.

  • Role fit
  • DISC-native
  • Coach scripts
05
Audit

Culture & Brand Telemetry

Continuous employee-sentiment and brand-consistency reads across the whole rooftop network, traced symptom-to-root-cause instead of averaged into a number nobody acts on.

  • ESS
  • Brand integrity
  • Root cause
06
Grow

Applied AI Foundry

Custom models trained on your data and your customer journey. Process teardown, model build, live deployment — shipped under your brand, not ours.

  • Process teardown
  • Custom models
  • Your brand

Nerd · Engagement Intelligence

Michael Markette

Twenty-six years building dealer product for car buyers and owners.

More than 20 years helping dealers and OEMs measure the customer experience. Created the original CallRevu platform and built FordDirect's mystery shop program.

One question drives the work: what really happens when a customer reaches out?

Michael Markette, Co-Founder of Heartbeat Labs

How can we help?

Tell us who you serve and where engagement is breaking. We'll show you what our intelligence can do behind your brand.

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