Austin's Automotive Dealer Engineering Partner
For auto dealerships and service groups in and around Austin, we deliver production-grade apps in same-day cadence from our LA HQ — with one team, one codebase, and one price.
The automotive dealer problem in Austin
What's really happening with auto dealerships and service groups here.
The pattern we see
Here's what we hear from Austin auto dealerships and service groups: "service and sales customer data live in two different DMS silos." We've heard it in South Congress, we've heard it in East Austin, and we hear it in every Travis County intake call. The tools your team uses weren't built for Austin, weren't built for automotive dealer, and weren't built for how your operation actually runs.
How we build for Austin
Not a template. A custom stack, assembled for your operation.
We build the custom software layer your Austin automotive dealer operation actually needs. That means branded inventory search with saved alerts, in-app service scheduling and reminders, and trade-in estimator with photo capture — wired into CDK and Reynolds & Reynolds so your existing stack keeps working. The outcome: unify sales + service customer and pull deals through faster. The benchmark: dealers compress retail delivery time by 30–50%.
Austin is not a generic market and your app shouldn't be generic either. The tech, entertainment, and real estate mix here shapes how auto dealerships and service groups operate — from the customer profile in South Congress to the operational tempo around the Domain. We've built software for professional-services and real-estate operations across Travis County, and that context shows up in every product decision we ship.
What we build
Five services. One retainer. Pick what fits, or stack them.
Branded Mobile App
A native iOS + Android app branded as Austin's automotive dealer leader. Published under your developer accounts, with push notifications tuned to unify sales + service customer and pull deals through faster.
- native iOS and Android from a single codebase
- App Store and Play Store submission under your developer accounts
- push notifications, deep linking, and offline support
Web Application
A production-grade web app your team in Travis County uses daily, and your customers reach from any browser. Optimized for the CT cadence your auto dealerships and service groups actually run on.
- production-grade React/Next.js front end
- custom domain, SSL, and CDN delivery
- role-based access and admin dashboards
Custom Internal Software
The internal tool CDK and Reynolds & Reynolds couldn't build for your Austin operation. digital retailing — credit app, deposit, and delivery scheduling, role-based access, and full audit trails.
- back-office operations dashboard
- workflow automation and approval chains
- data import/export and reporting exports
Systems Integration
Make CDK, Reynolds & Reynolds, Tekion — the stack your Austin automotive dealer team already depends on — finally behave as one system. Two-way sync, queue-backed retries, monitoring.
- two-way sync across CRM, billing, and ops systems
- webhooks, API proxies, and queue-backed retries
- monitoring, alerting, and error remediation
Ongoing Product Team
A product + engineering team on retainer. Weekly feature releases, uptime monitoring, and a monthly roadmap built around the Austin automotive dealer market's changing demands — not a fixed-bid handoff.
- monthly product roadmap with your leadership
- feature releases every 2 weeks
- uptime monitoring, patching, and incident response
How we build automotive dealer apps in Austin
Three phases. No surprises.
Design Review
We ship a clickable prototype in week 2 and walk through it with your team — in person when you're in Austin, on video when scheduling won't allow. You approve, we build.
Ship & Iterate
Your app ships within 6–10 weeks. Weekly release cadence after launch, with product-engineering retainer that treats your automotive dealer business like a product, not a project.
Integrate & Migrate
We migrate your existing data from CDK (and whatever else your Austin team already uses) so day-one launch doesn't lose a single customer or record.
Integrations we plug into
Keep the tools your Austin team already knows. We build around them, not over them.
Compliance, architected in
Requirements drive architecture, not retrofits. We scope compliance into the build from day one.
Frequently asked questions
Specific to auto dealerships and service groups in Austin.
Do you work with auto dealerships and service groups outside Austin?
Yes. We serve the full Travis County service area within roughly 30 miles of Austin, and we work remotely across the US. Most Austin projects get same-week on-site kickoffs when requested.
What does a automotive dealer app cost for a Austin business?
$850/month, all-in. That covers design, development, hosting, support, and ongoing iteration. No per-seat fees, no per-transaction cuts, no surprise invoices. Most auto dealerships and service groups we work with in Travis County recover the monthly cost within the first quarter through unify sales + service customer and pull deals through faster.
What about FTC Safeguards compliance?
Every credit-app data flow is built to the FTC Safeguards Rule — encryption, access controls, audit logging, and written information security policies covered.
Can each rooftop have its own app?
Either a multi-rooftop single app with location switching, or per-rooftop branded apps sharing one backend. We'll recommend the structure that fits your group.
Do we own the code and the data?
Yes. Your codebase, your App Store and Play Store listings, your customer data. If you ever decide to leave, we hand over a clean repo and a documented deployment. No lock-in, no exit fee.
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