Why we built the record first.
There is an enormous amount of software that will tell you where a vehicle is right now. There is almost none that can tell you, in five years, what happened to it, how it was used, what was done to it and whether any of that can be proved.
That gap is not a missing feature. It is the reason a fleet manager spends the week before a board meeting rebuilding numbers by hand, the reason a used vehicle sells for less than it should, the reason a financier prices uncertainty rather than an asset, and the reason a driver cannot get a straight answer about their own car.
So we built the record first and everything else second. Fleeter is a home for everything a vehicle is: one account of one car, kept honestly, for its whole life, available to each authorised party, with each seeing only what their role requires.
Every design rule traces to research, every claim to a source, every number to a method and a date.
“Fleet Managers are middle management, not C-Level, and they’re responsible for everything but have no authority.”
Four rules.
- Defensibility over decoration
- Every number traces to a source, a method and a date, because our buyer has to defend it in an audit, an FOI release or a board meeting. Provenance is an interface element, never a tooltip.
- Exceptions over inventory
- Attention should scale with what deviates, not with how much you own. We show the handful that need a human today and let the healthy majority cost nothing.
- Honesty over persuasion
- We show the real mess, itemise the true cost of a lease, and compare a saving to your actual next best alternative rather than to an inflated baseline.
- One engine, many brands
- The same audited logic underlies every brand on the platform. Only the surface changes, and accessibility and compliance critical interface elements are a core that no skin can override.
Fleeter is the engine behind Source Cars, OpenAuto and Carfan: the same audited substrate, wearing a different skin. The engine is the same; the surface is theirs.
What a novated quote is actually made of.
The industry’s deepest trust wound is the opaque quote: a single savings figure with the interest, margin and fees folded in where you cannot see them. Fleeter does the opposite, and itemises by default. There is no standardised novated comparison rate in this market, so a transparent total is a wedge rather than a courtesy.
| Line | What it is | Per fortnight |
|---|---|---|
| Financier base rate | The wholesale cost of the money | $318.40 |
| Broker marginusually hidden | What most quotes fold in silently | $41.10 |
| Establishment fee (amortised) | One off, spread over the term | $9.13 |
| Management fee | Servicing the lease | $15.38 |
| Running costs | Fuel or charging, tyres, rego, insurance | $204.60 |
| Less: tax benefit (GST and income tax), shown on its own | −$233.30 | |
| Your real position, per fortnight | $355.31 | |
Illustrative figures for a sub $75k electric vehicle on a novated lease; the employee contribution method does not apply to an eligible EV. Your quote itemises your own numbers, with every rate and fee named.
Where we are up to.
The record, the fleet surfaces, the forward plan, the emissions ledger, the risk register, the finance and packaging back office, the operator tooling and the governed assistant are built and running. The lender portal and the trade partner surfaces are in build, and their pages say so. If you want to know exactly what is real before you commit anything, ask and we will show you the actual screens.
An Australian company, built by people who have run fleets and the systems under them.
Fleeter is operated by Carcanvas Pty Ltd, trading as Fleeter, ABN 99 673 731 934. We are founder-led and based in Australia, and the platform is hosted onshore, end to end. The record, the calculators and the evidence bundles were built here, against Australian tax, registration and reporting rules first.
If you would like to meet the people before you meet the product, say so on the contact form and we will put a name and a calendar invitation in front of you rather than a sales sequence.
Lynnard started out on the floor of Holden’s Elizabeth plant and has spent the years since on every side of the vehicle: manufacturing, supplier quality, purchasing, government policy and fleet consulting. He built Fleeter after writing one too many fleet strategies that ended their lives as a PDF nobody actioned.
He has senior executive experience across the corporate and not-for-profit sectors, is an electrical engineer by training, and a car enthusiast at heart.
Come and prod it.
Bring your own data and your most awkward question. The fastest way to find out whether any of this is true is to watch it run on something you already know the answer to.