AI is changing software development
Building your own automotive software just got easier. Keeping it secure, compliant and running as you grow and connect it to the systems you use is still a challenge. That is where Twilltac helps.
Before AI, most businesses relied on the software their suppliers offered.
Now you can build your own, and nobody understands your business better than you do.
Twilltac helps you build and integrate software that works for your business.
The impact on your business
AI-assisted development brings different opportunities and challenges for retailers, lenders and software providers. Choose your type of business to see the impact.
Building software is getting easier. Connecting it and looking after it still takes time and money.
This is nobody’s fault. The industry has been adding software for thirty years, and building your own now costs far less.
You probably won’t build your own software this way, and you don’t need to. Your retailers will, and they will want it to connect to your systems.
A customer who builds the missing 20% of your product themselves may start to wonder whether they need the other 80%.
Getting it working is just the start
The first version of something you built yourself can be a better fit than the thing you were going to buy, because you built it around your business.
The difficulty arrives later, in five predictable places. We have spent the best part of two decades working on all five.
Maintenance
Working software can be quick to generate and expensive to change later. Someone still needs to understand and maintain it in three years.
Scale
What works for one site on a quiet Tuesday behaves differently across a group at month end.
Security
You are handling customer and finance data. The standard is the same whether you bought the software or wrote it.
Compliance
Consumer Duty, affordability, disclosure and audit trails all need attention. Your software needs to keep up as requirements change.
Connections
Your software needs to connect to other systems. There is always another one to add, and the ones you have keep releasing new versions.
None of these are reasons not to build. They are reasons not to build all of it.
What you can expect
Built around your business, use our shared services and connect to the systems you already work with.
Build your advantage
You know your business better than any supplier ever will. Build on our services and APIs, and what you build is yours: your process, your terms, your competitive edge, not a feature request in someone else’s queue.
Shared foundations
Security, scale, uptime, data protection and changing compliance requirements need ongoing work. Our shared services help you manage these demands without building everything from scratch.
Ready to connect
Lenders, compliance providers, valuations, stock, your DMS, your website. Build against one set of APIs to use our integrations. We maintain those connections as the systems behind them change.
Prefer ready-made?
Plenty of the businesses we work with won't want to build their own software. A lender may need to connect to a network running on dozens of different systems, at a pace its risk team can sign off, rather than build its own software. The same foundations do that job: you take the finished products and the integrations, and leave the building to us.
See the productsWhat makes the difference
Industry experience
We have worked on integrations for lenders, retailers and OEMs for the best part of two decades. We understand the challenges of connecting automotive systems and keeping them working over time.
Faster development
A deliberately small, senior team, a codebase designed from day one to be built on quickly, and serious use of AI-assisted development. We use these tools ourselves and bring that experience to what we build for you.
API-first
Built API-first, so our products and your own apps are first-class citizens of the same platform. Nothing is reserved for us, and nothing you build is a second-class bolt-on.
Built for scrutiny
UK-based on AWS, with an information security management system and data protection policies written for scrutiny by regulated businesses. Moving quickly and being auditable are not alternatives.
Where we are today
The services and integrations are already running. The tools that make them easier to build on are still in development. That is why the first round of early access is small: the people taking part help shape the tools around how they work. If you want to help decide what we build next, we would like to hear from you.
Your software, your advantage
Software was priced on the assumption that building anything was expensive. AI is changing that. What still takes time and investment is looking after it: security, compliance, integrations and ongoing maintenance.
More businesses can now build what makes them different and use shared services for their common needs. We are building for that, helping automotive businesses develop their own software without taking on every part of the platform behind it.
Help shape the toolkit
We're opening the first round of our early access programme to a small number of retailers: direct access to the founding team and a real say in what gets built next. If you are a lender, software vendor or OEM, we'd like to hear from you too.