Brian Gordon, Chief Business & Strategy Officer at Dave Cantin Group (DCG), joined Jamie Butters of Automotive News at NADA to discuss the 2025 buy-sell market and DCG’s proprietary AI software, Jump IQ.
In this episode, Brian Gordon discusses the opportunities ahead for dealerships in 2025. “You’re going to see a lot of buying, but also a lot of strategic selling,” he explains. This shift creates opportunities for smaller dealership owners to acquire valuable assets from larger groups.
Jamie Butters also asks Brian about DCG’s proprietary AI platform, Jump IQ. “We have almost complete profiles of all 18,000 dealerships in the United States, all mapped to their dealer groups. With an interface that allows us to see who they are and where they are. That type of visibility, from an M&A perspective, no one has ever really seen it before.”
More on Jump IQ – DCG’s proprietary software ingests over 250 million data points – and processes billions of data points – to create dynamic, real-time profiles of all 18,000+ U.S. franchise dealerships. The AI-powered software then uses that data to accurately and reliably establish financial information, performance data and an overall valuation for each franchise dealership. Additionally, it includes a tool to compare any subset of dealerships to one another: any brand, any geography, in real time.
Listen to the full podcast episode here on Automotive News for more insights.