Now in South Africa · Every web lead called back in 10 seconds — live in 2–4 weeks.Options →
The leading AI voice agent for SA dealerships

Never miss
another workshop call
or business opportunity.

diago, your AI voice agent, answers every inbound call instantly. Books the workshop into your DMS. Qualifies the lead. Updates the CRM. Fluent in South African English — Afrikaans too — 24/7, with zero human intervention.

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● Speaking · SA English
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Language
SA English + AF
Intent
Booking
Vehicle
1 Series
Slot
Tue 08:30
Caller"Howzit — I'd like to bring my 1 Series in for a service on Tuesday morning?"
diago"Of course — I've got Tuesday 8:30 or 10:15 open with Jaco. Which one suits you?"
Caller"8:30 is great, thanks."
Outcome · 00:54
Booked into your DMS · SMS sent · CRM synced
+R12,000 booking recovered
From Paris to Joburg.
The same engine 60+ automotive groups already trust — built for South Africa from day one.
35%
Of dealership calls unanswered today
250k+
Calls handled monthly by diago
4wk
From sign-up to live
The problem

South African dealerships are leaking money
through their phone lines.

Across the SA automotive market, dealer floors miss more than a third of their inbound calls — most of them inside ordinary business hours. The cost shows up in the workshop diary and the sales pipeline. Both.

Industry data
35%
Of inbound dealership calls in South Africa go unanswered — voicemails, drop-offs, or hold-times longer than three minutes.
— Internal benchmark, 12 SA dealer groups · 2025
Customer experience
36%
Of customers are not satisfied with the quality of service they receive on the phone.
— McKinsey Automotive · global benchmark
Market scale
USD 5.5bn
SA automotive aftermarket projection by 2033 — up from USD 3.28bn in 2024. The line that doesn't ring is leaving real money on the table.
— IMARC Group, SA Aftermarket Outlook 2024
diago picks upevery single time.
How diago works

From the first ring
to a synced CRM —
in 90 seconds.

diago doesn't replace your team. It replaces the missed calls. Every inbound call gets picked up, qualified, and resolved — or warm-handed-off to the right human with full context.

01 Receive

Picks up every inbound call.

Within two rings. Day, night, holiday, load-shedding. No queues, no menu trees, no hold music.

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03 Resolve

Books, qualifies, answers.

Pulls live DMS availability. Books the right slot. Confirms by SMS. Or qualifies the lead and routes it.

30 – 70slive DMS
04 Sync

Updates your CRM.

Transcript, sentiment, next-best-action, structured fields — pushed to your CRM automatically.

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What diago does

A whole front desk
in one voice.

Five capabilities. One agent. Voice and text, native to your DMS and CRM. Drop diago in beside your existing team — or let it take the after-hours, the peak-hours, and the languages your service writers don't speak.

01 · 24/7 Call reception

Answers every inbound call. Always.

Service queries, parts questions, status look-ups, sales enquiries — diago handles them all, in native SA English (Afrikaans too), with the warmth of a real receptionist and the speed of an agent that never has to put you on hold.

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02 · Workshop booking

Books straight into your DMS.

Live technician availability. Right service category. Right slot. Confirmed via SMS, dropped into the customer's calendar.

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03 · Status look-ups

"Where's my car?"

Caller asks. diago reads your live service record. Answers in plain language.

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04 · Lead qualification

Calls every web lead in 10 sec.

Confirms intent, budget, timing. Hot leads to sales, with context attached.

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05 · Outbound follow-up

Aftersales reminders.

Service reminders, RDV confirmations, trade-in nudges, NPS calls — all outbound.

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+ Integrations

Plugs into the stack South African dealers actually run.

Connects — subject to your DMS and its compatibility — to Kerridge SA, Lightstone, Automate, and the SA telephony you already use (Euphoria Telecom, 3CX). Salesforce, HubSpot & Zoho out the box.

Kerridge SAconnected
Lightstoneconnected
Automatepilot
Euphoria · 3CX · Salesforceactive
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For dealer principals

A dashboard that turns calls
into decisions.

Every call transcribed. Every booking attributed. Every missed lead surfaced. The first time a dealer principal will actually know what's happening on their service line — minute by minute, in plain numbers.

diago.co.za/Joburg Auto · Service
Last 24h | ● Live
Calls handled
147
+22% vs. yesterday
Answer rate
100%
+0 missed
Workshop bookings
42
+14% vs. last week
Revenue recovered
R86k
this month · est.
Caller
Intent
Outcome
Lang
Time
Status
+27 82 451 0093
Service booking
Tue 08:30 · DMS
AF
00:54
Booked
+27 83 991 2208
Parts query
Resolved · brake pads in stock
EN
01:14
Resolved
+27 76 224 8810
Sales · Hilux
Routed → Sipho (Sales)
EN
02:08
Hot lead
+27 71 660 0144
Status look-up
Update sent · awaiting parts
AF
00:38
Resolved
+27 84 660 1147
Service booking · live
Booking · Polo · Thursday
EN
01:31
● Live
Built for South Africa

Localised, complied,
and load-shedding-proof.

diago Africa is the South African chapter of a proven European engine. Same architecture, retuned for our market — our accents, our languages, our DMSes, our POPIA, and our power grid.

Native SA English — Afrikaans supported, isiZulu coming Q3.

Code-switching handled natively. No menus. Detection on the first syllable.

POPIA-compliant from day one.

SA data residency, consent capture, audit-ready transcripts. Information officer registered.

Load-shedding-proof cloud.

Hosted off-site on redundant infrastructure. Your dealership goes dark — diago doesn't.

Local South African team.

South African onboarding, training, and ongoing optimisation — in your time zone, by people who know the dealer floor.

Live in 2–4 weeks.

Sign-up to first live call — most groups go live inside 2–4 weeks, depending on integration scope.

SA automotive market
Big, growing, leaking.

The South African aftermarket is on a 9-year tear — projected to grow USD 2.27bn between 2024 and 2033. Every percentage point of recovered call answer rate moves real numbers.

USD 3.28bn
SA aftermarket · 2024
USD 5.55bn
SA aftermarket · 2033
91%
SA fleet managers planning digital investment
R12k
Avg. revenue per missed call
From Paris, with proof

Already trusted across
five countries.

diago was founded in Paris in December 2023 by three co-founders: two Polytechnique-trained AI engineers, and the former Managing Director of Stellantis France with three decades on the dealer floor.

In 24 months, diago became the default voice agent for European automotive aftersales — now handling 250,000+ calls a month across 400+ dealerships. The same engine is rolling out across Africa, starting with South Africa.

5
European countries live
400+
Dealerships deployed
60+
Automotive groups
🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇮🇹 Italy 🇩🇪 Germany 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇿🇦 South Africa
The founders
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Guillaume Couzy · CEO
Former Managing Director, Stellantis France
30+ years inside the PSA Group. Built dealer relationships across France, then turned them inside-out for diago. Splits time between Paris and South Africa.
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Sylvain Delgendre · Co-founder & COO
École Polytechnique · digital product
École Polytechnique engineer and digital-product expert. Runs diago's product and operations.
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Pierre de Boisredon · Co-founder & CTO
École Polytechnique · AI / data science
École Polytechnique engineer, AI & data science. Leads diago's voice engine and the integrations layer — DMS, CRM and telephony connectors.
diago Africa · local leadership
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Wayne Sorour · Co-founder & Managing Director
diago Africa · South Africa
South African automotive leader heading up diago Africa — local strategy, dealer partnerships and the South African team. Full bio & photo to follow.
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Dean · Co-founder & Commercial Director
diago Africa · South Africa
Leads commercial and dealer-group relationships across South Africa. Full bio & photo to follow.
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Olivier · Co-founder & Operations Director
diago Africa · South Africa
Runs onboarding, delivery and ongoing optimisation for SA dealer floors. Full bio & photo to follow.
Priced for SA dealerships

Two tiers.
Scaled to your group.

Per-rooftop, in Rand. The productivity gains — recovered bookings, qualified leads, freed-up reception time — typically outrun the subscription many times over. Book a demo for a tailored quote.

Single rooftop

Standard

Let's talkper rooftop · monthly

For independent dealerships getting the phone line under control.

  • Up to 500 calls / month
  • SA English + Afrikaans
  • 24/7 call reception & SMS confirms
  • HubSpot · Zoho CRM sync
  • Dashboard + audit transcripts
  • Email support · weekly reports
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Tailored quote · no obligation
Dealer groups

Group

Customper rooftop · by scope

For multi-rooftop, multi-brand dealer groups. Custom integrations, dedicated CSM.

  • Unlimited calls
  • Everything in Premium +
  • Multi-rooftop · multi-brand routing
  • Custom DMS & CRM connectors
  • Dedicated customer success manager
  • Custom SLA · data residency · audit
Talk to sales
Volume pricing for groups
diago works 24/7 with zero handoffs — answering, booking and qualifying while your team focuses on the floor.
From the dealer floor

What service managers actually say.

Real feedback from European dealer groups. We'll have South African voices here too once the first SA case studies wrap up in the coming weeks.

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"The workshop is booked out three days ahead. We don't watch the missed-call list anymore — there isn't one."
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Jean Moreau
Aftersales Manager · Citroën Lyon
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"Our sales consultants now only call leads that are actually buying. Conversion is up 22% this quarter."
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Elena García
Sales Director · SEAT Barcelona
★★★★★
"Set-up took us 26 days. By week six the dashboard told a different story than I'd ever seen for that branch."
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Marc Brouwer
Dealer Principal · Renault Brussels
See it live

Try diago on
your service line.

Book a demo and we'll run diago live on a real call from your service desk — you'll hear exactly how it answers, books and qualifies, and watch it land in the dashboard. Then we scope a tailored quote for your group.

Demo line
Coverage
South Africa
Hours
diago doesn't sleep.