{"id":1008643,"date":"2026-05-19T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008643"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:19:45","slug":"how-19-year-old-pratyush-mishra-is-using-ai-to-transform-grassroots-auto-retail-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/how-19-year-old-pratyush-mishra-is-using-ai-to-transform-grassroots-auto-retail-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"How 19-year-old Pratyush Mishra is using AI to transform grassroots auto retail in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI help streamline an automotive dealership business? A 19-year-old Pratyush Mishra proved it is indeed possible. <\/p>\n<p>Dealership workers frequently cycle between spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, phone calls, and isolated software systems just to close a single sale. While industry veterans were blind to this coordination system, a fresh perspective from a teenage tech student exposed the core issue \u2013 dealerships didn\u2019t lack software; rather, they had too many tools that simply refused to speak to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI help streamline an automotive dealership business? A 19-year-old Pratyush Mishra proved it is indeed possible. Dealership workers frequently cycle between spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, phone calls, and isolated software systems just to close a single sale. While industry veterans were blind to this coordination system, a fresh perspective from a teenage tech student exposed the core issue \u2013 dealerships didn\u2019t lack software; rather, they had too many tools that simply refused to speak to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008694,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008643\/revisions\/1008694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}