Scaling Automotive Compliance with 500% Improved Video Inspection
Client Overview
PSSPL designed a high-performance, next-generation AI-powered solution for a high-growth automotive SaaS provider. The client serves 1500+ independent dealers and franchise networks by reviewing over 50,000 inspection videos daily. Their platform facilitates sales and service teams to record inspection videos, ensure compliance, and manage the vehicle trade-in appraisal process.
The clientsโ platform had already delivered the value of smart media for quality and compliance scoring. But with more dealership groups joining, it became challenging for the system, especially in times of peak business hours. This is when the client required a more powerful and scalable platform version to keep up with the scalability.
Industry
Automotive SaaS Provider
Company size
Medium
Location
USA
Project Duration
6 months
Services Provided
- Redesigned the inspection and compliance platform for rapid scalability.
- Shifted from a single-location setup to a shared platform.
- Provided end-to-end engineering, from restructuring to role-based web dashboards.
- Aligned the workflow with daily dealership operations and usage patterns.
Technologies Used
Frontend
React.js, Tailwind CSS, Recharts, Context API
Backend
Python, FastAPI, Uvicorn
Database
PostgreSQL
The Challenge
As the usage of the platform started to increase, thousands of high-definition videos were uploaded all at the same time. This resulted in processing delays, requiring the advisors and technicians to wait for compliance and quality check scores before proceeding.
The platform was also struggling to serve multiple dealership groups collectively while ensuring safe and separate data. Subsequently, group-level and regional leaders wanted to combine reports across all locations, but the platform generated these analytics too slowly. There could be a sharp rise in the cloud costs and reduced profit margins if new servers were added.
Business was growing at a breakneck speed, but the platform couldnโt handle the heavy and unpredictable demand surge. If a solution wasnโt developed, the user experience could be negatively affected, and expansion could become expensive and risky.
A new, high-performance platform upgrade was the real client demand to:
- Ensure compliance with everyday dealership data.
- Seamlessly support the rapid onboarding of the new dealerships.
- Provide reliable reporting across all locations.
The PSSPL team of Python developers worked on upgrading an existing automotive inspection and compliance platform. The system was unable to match the pace of heavy video traffic and rapid growth across several locations.
We redesigned the core video intake and processing engine using Python and FastAPI to foster speed, reliability, and scalability. This platform reengineering delivered key capabilities such as high-speed video ingestion, network-wide analysis, multi-location data isolation, and automated fraud-detection workflows.
As a result, the platform was fast and secure enough to process 500% more video load with 40% reduced processing cost.
Manish Langa
AI Practice Head, PSSPL
How PSSPL Helped
The team began with rebuilding the video intake and processing flow of the existing platform to parallelly handle multiple uploads. The goal was to prevent the system from getting stuck during peak hours and providing fast confirmation to the technicians’ post upload.
Our team also designed a secure and shared data structure facilitating full isolation of each dealership data. Additionally, the web interface refresh with role-based dashboard allowed each user to view only the information that is valuable for them.
The intent to partner with the client as their core engineering team was to move from a single tenant system to an enterprise SaaS platform that could be safely shared among multiple dealerships.
Key Features Delivered
The goal behind transforming the clientsโ existing heavy platform was to empower fast and smooth uploads, protect data among different dealerships, and promote transparency across the network. All of this was ensured by designing the system with the following key capabilities:
Secure Multi-dealership Platform
Safe sharing of one platform among multiple dealerships while ensuring strictly separate data. Consequently, group owners and executives can run combined reports across their entire network.
High-Speed Video Intake
The new flow of the redesigned platform accepts a large volume of videos at the same time and confirms them to users even during peak hours. This helps service lanes to keep moving while reducing the wait time for technicians and advisors.
Network-Wide Analytics
The leaders can easily compare the performance across different locations based on compliance and service metrics. This helps identify the top-performing locations, locations that need support, and the best practices across the network.
Role-based Dashboards
The user interface of the transformed platform can adapt to each role. Technicians use it for daily inspections, senior executives use it to review trends across locations, and service managers use it to track store operations.
Key Business Outcomes of the Platform
40% Reduced Cloud Cost Per Video
Efficient video processing significantly dropped the cost to handle each video, keeping profit margins untouched as the usage scaled.
500% Better Concurrent Video Processing
The redesigned system could handle up to 5 times more videos without impacting the performance, ensuring continued expansion.
1,000+ New Locations Onboarded in a Single Quarter
The multi-tenant architecture of the new platform made it seamless to add more than 1000 dealership locations in a single quarter without performance issues.
Sub-50ms Average Response Time
Fast and responsive web portal with quick page load speed and instant updates every time the user switches between dashboards and actions.
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