About Twilltac
Twilltac is a software company built by a team that has worked together for the best part of two decades. We join up the systems and data behind automotive retail.
That's the short version. Here's the longer one.
The story
Before Twilltac
We all worked at Codeweavers. For the best part of two decades we built the finance calculations, quoting and eCommerce technology used across UK automotive retail, connecting lenders, retailers and OEMs and processing the numbers behind millions of car finance journeys. In 2021 the business was acquired by Cox Automotive.
What we saw
Two decades inside the industry teaches you exactly where its systems break down. We watched retailers re-key the same customer data into multiple systems. We watched lenders and OEMs assemble reports by hand because their own network's data couldn't be joined up. We watched good businesses spend fortunes on software that didn't talk to anything else they owned.
Starting again
Three and a half years after the sale of Codeweavers, the senior technical team left to work on the problem underneath all the others: the industry's systems don't connect, and the cost of that lands on everyone.
Founded in 2024
Twilltac was founded in 2024. We've spent the time since building.
No layers, no theatre
We're a deliberately small, senior team. No juniors learning on your project, no management layer, no account team to work through. When you deal with Twilltac, you deal with the people building the software.
Small doesn't mean slow. Experienced engineers, a codebase designed from day one to be built on quickly, and serious use of AI-assisted development mean we ship at a pace that tends to surprise people. We'd rather demonstrate that than claim it, so ask us how long the last thing took.
We try to keep ego out of the work. Ideas win on merit, not seniority, and that includes ideas from our customers, which is most of the reason our early access programme exists. We'd rather show you working software than a roadmap slide.
And we've been doing this long enough to know what we don't know. When something is early, we'll say so. When something isn't ready, we won't sell it to you.
Who you'll deal with
People who have worked together long enough to skip the introductions.
Why "Twilltac"?
When we came back together, we wanted a name we could call our own and this time we were really keen to secure a .com domain. That turned out to be harder than it sounds. Almost every name you can think of had already gone.
After a lot of searching (and a few memorable near misses), we settled on Twilltac. Of everything we'd tried, it sounded the best. It also holds a small nod to where we came from: twill is a woven fabric, so a little of the "weavers" in Codeweavers lives on in Twilltac.
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How to say Twilltac
TWILL-tack/ˈtwɪl.tæk/
Twill, like the fabric your chinos are made of. Tac, like the small pointy thing holding the rota to the noticeboard.
Two syllables, with the weight on the first. If you'd rather hear it said aloud, we made a video. It gets there in the end.
That's us. Over to you.
We're opening the first round of our early access programme to a small number of retailers. Partners get the founding team and a real say in what we build next.