Fast Company recognizes Numa for pioneering AI-powered dealership operations that drive revenue, efficiency, and better customer experiences
SAN FRANCISCO — Numa, the leading AI for dealership customer operations, is proud to have been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026, ranking #10 in the automotive category. This year’s list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations. Numa’s innovations promote responsible AI governance, showing how automation, when built thoughtfully, can elevate both business performance and human experience.
Numa is continuously launching innovative tools that are changing how automotive dealerships work. They are bringing enterprise-grade AI to one of the most relationship-focused industries in the economy. At the heart of this change is Numa’s AI Agent Platform. It provides constant intelligence across voice, text, and chat, ensuring that every customer inquiry gets answered right away. This setup prevents missed calls and lost sales. Key offerings like the Appointment Agent, which fully automates service booking, and the Call Intelligence Agent, which turns conversations into usable insights, are already producing strong results. These include a 45% increase in appointment conversions and a significant decrease in no-shows.
“We’re incredibly honored to be recognized by Fast Company as a top 10 company in the automotive category. This accomplishment is a testament to the real impact our customers are seeing every day,” said Tasso Roumeliotis, founder and CEO of Numa. “Over the past year, we’ve gone beyond the promise of AI and delivered real results. We’ve helped dealerships capture missed revenue, work more efficiently, and create better experiences for their customers. What excites me most is that we’re just getting started. This recognition confirms our belief that AI can change even the most traditional industries. We’re eager to keep exploring what’s possible and help every dealership operate at their best.”
At the 2026 NADA Show, an annual convention and expo hosted by the National Automobile Dealers Association, Numa unveiled a suite of new products designed to modernize dealership operations and turn customer interactions into a real-time growth engine. By addressing the core drivers of profitability – speed, follow-through, and personalized engagement – the following solutions help dealerships respond faster, convert more demand, and retain customers at scale:
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To learn more about Numa and its AI dealership capabilities, please visit: www.numa.com.
Numa is the AI used by elite dealerships to run customer operations. Our mission is to build the AI-native dealership and help dealers increase profitability by 300% by 2027.
Numa rescues all inbound calls and appointments and unifies every customer conversation across voice, text, and digital channels, and deploys AI agents that manage conversations and operational workflows in real time—while intentionally keeping humans in the loop where judgment, empathy, and trust matter most.
Trusted by more than 1,300 dealerships across the U.S. and Canada, Numa is based in Silicon Valley and founded by the team behind Location Labs. The company has raised $55 million from Google, Threshold Ventures (founding investor of Tesla), Mitsui, Costanoa Ventures, and Touring Capital. Inc. 5000 recognized Numa as the #168 fastest-growing company overall and the #1 fastest-growing dealership software company.
To learn more, visit www.numa.com.
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