AI Changes Work. We Change People
Shift Point.ai is a company founded by brothers Tim and Patrick Walker, two automotive professionals who built practical tools to help salespeople get better at the conversations that actually matter. Their first product, pivot, is an AI-powered trainer that simulates real text threads with internet leads so reps can practice handling objections and setting appointments in a way that feels like the real job. The company is just getting started, with pivot as the first release and several more apps already in development.
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We’re building a full suite of dealer-related, AI-powered tools. The car business doesn’t need to change. It just needs to meet clients and employees where they are.pivot is the flagship application from Shift Point.ai, an AI objection-handling trainer that lets automotive salespeople practice real text conversations with leads so they can get better at earning appointments.
We’re launching Shift Point.ai and our first product, pivot
Hey everyone,
We’re Tim and Patrick Walker, a couple of brothers who’ve spent years in the car business, and today we’re quietly putting something out into the world that we’ve been building from scratch.
Patrick’s been in the industry for seven years: salesman, business manager, director of variable ops, and now a General Manager. Tim’s put in four years on the floor and more recently has been running a Digital Retail Center. Somewhere along the way (helped by Tim’s background in teaching and studying social work and hospitality), we both got tired of watching good salespeople struggle with the same text conversations over and over. The product knowledge was there. The process was there. What was often missing was the human part: the empathy, the listening, the ability to work a real objection without sounding like a script.
So we built pivot.
pivot is an AI objection-handling trainer that feels like the actual job. It drops you into a text thread that looks just like the ones coming out of your CRM. A simulated customer (random name, vehicle, source, trade situation) starts firing objections at you. You pick the stage and difficulty, then you work the conversation the same way you would a live internet lead, trying to earn the appointment. When you’re done, an AI coach grades the session using one of five different coaching personalities and scores you against a Trust Based Selling framework.
We’ve packed it with the stuff we actually wished we had when we were on the floor:
Nine different scenario types with stages and three difficulty levels
Five AI coaches that don’t all sound the same
Real gamification (quality multipliers, appointment bonuses, streaks, personal bests, team scoreboard)
A store playbook managers can edit so the coaching matches how your store sells
Custom scenarios: a manager can type a real situation in plain English, generate a share code, and have the whole team run the exact same lead
This is a soft launch. We’re first-time developers, so there will be some kinks. We’re okay with that. We’d rather get it in front of real people, learn fast, and make it better than sit on it until it’s “perfect.”
This is just the start. We have several other apps in active development and hope to release them over the next year or so.
Right now pivot is fully public. You get a 3-day free trial, then it’s $19.99 a month.
If this sounds useful, whether you’re a salesperson who wants more practice, a manager who wants better coaching tools, or just a friend or family member who wants to support our business, drop your email on our list. We’re collecting interest so we can size the servers properly and keep improving the product based on what actual users need.
Thanks for reading. Tim & Patrick Walker Shift Point.ai
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