2026 Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence Recognize Impel for Technical Innovation of the Year in AI and Excellence in Agentic AI Deployment
New York, NY — July 24, 2026 — Impel, the global leader in AI solutions for the automotive industry, has earned two Silver Stevie® Awards in the 2026 Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence: Technical Innovation of the Year in Artificial Intelligence and Excellence in Agentic AI Deployment. Both honors recognize the company’s entry, “Rewriting the Reality of Automotive Retail Through Agentic AI.”
Impel’s Automotive AI Operating System is the industry’s only end-to-end agentic AI platform purpose-built for automotive retail operations. By unifying siloed data and orchestrating workflows across the entire customer journey, Impel enables retailers and OEMs to move at the speed of the modern consumer. A coordinated network of specialized AI agents autonomously manages and synchronizes interactions across merchandising, marketing, sales, and service, removing the administrative friction that slows operations and freeing dealership teams to focus on the high-touch relationships that build lasting loyalty. Today, Impel powers more than 8,000 dealerships and OEMs across over 50 countries.
“Being recognized at the Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence three years running, reflects both what our team has built and the results our customers are achieving,” said Devin Daly, CEO and Co-Founder of Impel. “Agentic AI is the foundation of our Automotive AI Operating System, engineered specifically for the workflows, the data, and the customer journey of automotive retail rather than adapted from general-purpose technology. We are proud of our team for setting a standard that resonates well beyond our own industry, and for delivering AI that gives dealership teams back the time to focus on the relationships that build lasting loyalty.”
Now in its third year, the Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence recognize outstanding achievements in technology across every industry. This year’s competition drew more than 700 nominations from organizations in 37 nations and territories, evaluated by more than 180 technology and business professionals serving as judges.
About Impel
Impel is harnessing the power of AI to transform automotive retailing and has become one of the largest vertical AI companies in the world. The company’s industry-leading Automotive AI Operating System helps more than 8,000 retailers and OEMs unify the entire customer journey — fueling faster decisions, deeper connections, and measurable impact at every step along the way. To date, Impel has delivered more than 42 billion shopper interactions, influencing over $12 billion in sales and service revenue across 51 countries.
About the Stevie Awards
The Stevie® Awards, widely recognized as the world’s premier business awards, are nicknamed the Stevies, derived from the Greek word stephanos, meaning “crowned.” The Stevie® Awards receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie® Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.