Automotive Software Development Company
FISTA Solutions builds automotive software above the vehicle platform: dealer and service experiences, connected vehicle data pipelines, fleet and telematics applications, parts and inventory tooling, and AI agents for service scheduling, diagnostics support, and parts operations.
- 150+
- projects delivered
- 50+
- companies served
- 99.9%
- verified uptime
- 47%
- efficiency gains
- 12+
- countries reached
What we build
What does a automotive software development company build?
FISTA builds dealer and service experiences, connected vehicle data pipelines and dashboards, fleet and telematics applications, parts and inventory tooling, owner mobile apps, and AI agents for scheduling, diagnostics support, and parts and warranty operations.
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Dealer and service platforms
Online service scheduling, work order visibility, digital vehicle inspections, and customer communication tied to the DMS.
Dealer - 02
Connected vehicle pipelines
Telemetry ingestion, normalization, and analytics at fleet scale, with consent and privacy controls applied at ingestion.
Connected - 03
Fleet and telematics apps
Utilization, maintenance, driver behavior, and cost dashboards with the drill-down that fleet managers actually ask for.
Fleet - 04
Parts and inventory tooling
Catalog lookup, availability across locations, ordering workflow, and returns handling integrated with supplier systems.
Parts - 05
Owner mobile apps
Vehicle status, service history, scheduling, and notifications built for reliability and battery discipline.
Owner - 06
Automotive AI agents
Service scheduling and reminders, diagnostic code explanation for advisors, parts lookup, and warranty document processing.
AI
Requirements
Which requirements shape automotive software development?
Automotive software must stay outside safety-critical boundaries, handle telemetry at scale with privacy controls, and serve dealer operations that run on entrenched DMS platforms with limited integration surfaces.
| Requirement | What it means here | How FISTA builds to it |
|---|---|---|
| Safety separation | Consumer and fleet applications must not influence vehicle control. | Read-only consumption of vehicle data, no control-path integration, and documented boundaries in the architecture. |
| Telemetry scale | Connected fleets generate continuous high-volume data. | Streaming ingestion with edge filtering, time-series storage with rollups, and cost-modeled retention tiers. |
| Privacy and consent | Vehicle and driver data is personal and increasingly regulated. | Consent capture and enforcement at ingestion, purpose-scoped access, retention limits, and data minimization by default. |
| DMS constraints | Dealer systems expose limited, rate-limited interfaces. | Integration layer with caching, queued writes, and graceful degradation when the DMS is slow or unavailable. |
| Warranty and recall records | Claims and campaigns require accurate, retrievable history. | Immutable service and campaign history, document retention, and exportable evidence per vehicle. |
Where AI fits
Where do AI agents fit in automotive?
AI agents fit automotive in customer contact and technical lookup: service scheduling and reminders, explaining diagnostic codes to advisors, parts identification, warranty document processing, and summarizing fleet exceptions. Repair decisions and warranty approvals remain with qualified staff.
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Service scheduling agent
Books and confirms appointments from customer messages and reminders, respecting shop capacity and advisor rules.
- 02
Diagnostic support agent
Explains codes and symptoms from approved technical content with citations, helping advisors communicate with customers.
- 03
Parts lookup agent
Identifies parts from descriptions, VIN, and photos, checking availability across locations before an advisor promises a date.
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Warranty document agent
Extracts and validates claim documentation, flagging missing evidence before submission rather than after rejection.
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Fleet exception agent
Summarizes utilization, maintenance, and cost exceptions across the fleet with the underlying records attached.
Cost and timeline
How much does automotive software development cost, and how long does it take?
Cost is driven by telemetry volume, DMS integration constraints, and application breadth; timeline by OEM or DMS data access approvals. FISTA does not quote blind: the scoping call returns a specification, a data architecture, and a phased estimate.
Data access approvals often set the schedule. OEM connected vehicle APIs and DMS integrations involve contracts, quotas, and review processes that move independently of engineering. FISTA identifies those gates in discovery and sequences the build so work continues while approvals proceed.
Telemetry retention is the main running cost. What you keep, at what resolution, and for how long is a financial decision with analytical consequences. FISTA models it against your fleet size and sampling rate before the pipeline is built, and designs rollups so long-horizon analysis does not require raw retention.
Send the scope you have, even if it is a paragraph. You get a written brief, an architecture sketch, and a phased estimate before any commitment.
Get a scoped quoteDelivery
How does FISTA deliver an industry software project?
FISTA delivers in four gated phases: a discovery sprint that produces the specification and integration map, an architecture and compliance design that names every control, iterative builds demoed weekly on your environment, and a verified release with runbooks, monitoring, and a handover or a managed operations option.
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Discover and specify
Stakeholder interviews, system inventory, data classification, and a written specification with acceptance criteria and a phased plan.
OutputSpecification, integration map, estimate
- 2
Design for compliance
Architecture, data model, security controls, and the evidence plan for any audit, agreed before the first sprint.
OutputArchitecture decision record, control matrix
- 3
Build and demonstrate
Two-week sprints with automated tests, contract tests on integrations, and a demo on your environment every week.
OutputWorking increments in your repository
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Verify and operate
Load, security, and acceptance testing against the spec; release with runbooks, dashboards, and alerting; optional managed operations.
OutputVerified release, runbooks, SLOs
Why FISTA
Why choose FISTA Solutions for automotive software development?
FISTA builds automotive software strictly outside the control path, with privacy enforced at ingestion and integration layers that tolerate DMS limitations. Work is contracted through a US entity with full IP assignment.
Automotive specifics
- Vehicle data is consumed read-only; no component in the architecture sits in a control path.
- Consent and purpose scoping are enforced at ingestion, not applied later in reporting.
- DMS integrations assume rate limits and outages, with caching, queued writes, and graceful degradation.
- Telemetry retention and rollups are cost-modeled against your fleet before the pipeline is built.
How FISTA engineers
- Spec-Driven Development: every deliverable starts as a written specification with acceptance criteria, so scope is testable before it is built.
- AI-native delivery: engineers direct coding agents under review gates and evaluation harnesses, compressing build time without loosening verification.
- Official Anthropic partner, with production experience across Claude, OpenAI, Google, and open-weight models, chosen per workload rather than by default.
- One accountable delivery lead, weekly demos on your environment, and code in your repositories from week one.
What you get as a client
- 150+ projects delivered for 50+ companies across 12+ countries since 2017, with 99.9% verified uptime on systems we operate.
- A US entity (FISTA Solutions Inc., Wilmington, Delaware) for contracting, invoicing, and IP assignment, with an engineering center in Faisalabad, Pakistan for cost-efficient senior capacity.
- US business-hours overlap for standups and reviews; written decision logs so nothing depends on a meeting you missed.
- Flexible engagement: fixed-scope build, embedded forward deployed engineers, or a dedicated team that you can scale month to month.
Clear answers
What buyers in this industry ask first.
Straightforward guidance for evaluating scope, fit, and the next step.
01Do you work on in-vehicle or embedded software?
No. FISTA builds the software above the vehicle platform — dealer, fleet, owner, and data applications that consume vehicle data read-only. Safety-critical embedded development is a different discipline with its own certification regimes.
02Can you integrate with our DMS?
Yes, through the interfaces your DMS and contract permit, with an integration layer that handles rate limits, latency, and outages so customer-facing experiences stay responsive when the DMS is not.
03How do you handle connected vehicle data privacy?
Consent is captured and enforced at ingestion, data is minimized to what the use case requires, access is purpose-scoped, and retention limits are applied automatically — so privacy is a property of the pipeline rather than a policy document.
04Can AI diagnose vehicle faults?
Agents explain diagnostic codes and symptoms from approved technical content with citations, which helps advisors and customers understand the situation. The repair decision remains with a qualified technician, and the system records who decided.
05Do you build for fleets as well as dealers?
Yes. Fleet work centers on utilization, maintenance planning, driver and cost analytics, and exception handling over telematics data, usually with a different user base and SLA profile than dealer systems.
06How long does an automotive software project take?
A focused dealer or fleet application typically takes a few months, with OEM or DMS data access approvals as the usual critical path. Discovery identifies those gates and sequences work around them.
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Bring the dealer workflow, the fleet question, or the telemetry pile. The scoping call returns a specification, a data architecture, and a phased estimate.