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The model

The vehicle-day: the unit that tells whether your fleet makes money.

A fleet is not steered by month or by vehicle: it is steered by vehicle-day. Every day, every vehicle produces, sleeps or costs. Backlane classifies every vehicle every morning, acts on the last two states, and collects the first.

of balance today, on a simulated 100-vehicle fleet
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Backlane does not save you time. It makes you money: rents recovered, kilometres finally billed, fines rebilled to the driver, idle days counted, a premium negotiated on your numbers, team hours given back to the exceptions.

Not a productivity tool: savings in every process. One more line on your EBITDA.

The tipping points

A vehicle does not slowly stop paying. It tips.

Three states, and above all two tipping points: that is where margin is lost, and where the agents work.

Producing→Paused

The return nobody anticipated

The driver hands the keys back on Friday, the reassignment is not ready, the vehicle sleeps for three weeks. Backlane sees the term coming 60 days ahead and prepares what follows.

−€20/day from the first idle day
Paused→Leaking

The unpaid invoice running, the claim sleeping

A missed rent without a chaser becomes three weeks of debt; an incident reported late becomes a deductible given away. Backlane chases the next day and gets it reported in 2 minutes.

−€45/day, and it compounds
Leaking→Producing

The recovery, in one decision

Payment on the portal, claim file rebilled to the contract, kilometres caught up on the next invoice. You decide, the agent executes.

+€35/day recovered

Illustrative rates: yours are measured in the diagnostic.

The loop

Four beats in a vehicle's life. A euro at every beat.

From day one to the last, no gap between actions, where margin usually leaks.
1

Day 1: they sign

Contract, direct-debit mandate, telematics, risk profile: everything live before the first trip.
A complete file from day 1.
2

They drive

Mileage flows in on its own, invoices go out on their own, rent lands on its own. The score sharpens with every trip.
Every km driven is a km billed.
3

Life happens

A fender-bender, an arrear, a fine: reported on WhatsApp in 2 minutes, handled end to end, rebilled to the right contract.
A file, not a cash-flow hole.
4

It moves on

Balance settled, vehicle re-scored, reassigned, or retired if it no longer earns its keep.
A vehicle that moves on, not a file that lingers.
Those tipping points, measured on the first fleet under management: ÷3 collection delay+€15 /vehicle/month of recovered km+€10 /fine rebilled1 FTE freed /150 vehicles The method and the cohorts →
The architecture
Five layers.
One single loop.
The agents read the ledger. Nothing goes out without passing through governance.
Result: vehicle-days that produce
05Surfacesconsole, customer portal, driver
04Governanceapproval, guards, traceability
03The agentsthe layer that works
02The ledgerone line per invoice, per contract, per vehicle
01Connectionstelematics, e-invoicing, payment, insurer
05Surfaces
operator consolecustomer payment portaldriver space
approved action▲
04Governance
human approvalsend guardstraceabilitylearning from corrections
proposal▲
03The agents
collectionsbillingintakeclaimssalesanalyst
reading▲
02The ledger
invoicescontractsfleetcustomersclaimstelemetry
01Connections
telematicse-invoicing platformpaymentinsureremail · SMS · WhatsApp
Nothing reaches a surface without passing through governance.

No action goes out without passing through governance. None.

Your data never leaves the system. Trips, contracts, payments stay in your registry; only scores and contractual documents move. It is your asset: we put it to work, we do not let it out. Security & data →
What next
Who executes

The agents

Billing, collections, contracts: each holds one beat of the loop, and announces its work the day before.

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What it yields

The results

Collection delay divided by 3, kilometres recovered: the method and the cohorts, without flattering rounding.

See the numbers →
Where money goes

The leaks

Unpaid invoices, kilometres, fines, claims, premium: one page per leak, with what we recover.

Unpaid invoices & collections →
Frequently asked questions

Is the vehicle-day just marketing?

It is the product's unit of account: every vehicle is classified every morning, and margin is computed per day, not per contract. The rates shown are illustrative; yours come out of the diagnostic.

What decides that a vehicle is leaking?

Written rules, not an opaque score: an unpaid amount past a threshold, an undeclared claim, an immobilisation that drags, a premium above the measured risk. Every classification is justified by the rule that produced it.

What if our business is not long-term leasing?

The engine only speaks of vehicles, contracts and days: it applies to long-term leasing, short-term rental and driver rentals. The vocabulary changes, the arithmetic does not.

How much are you losing today?
No theoretical number: we measure it with you. In 30 minutes on your real fleet, or quantified from 6 months of history, delivered within 48 hours.
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No commitment. Nothing changes with your current tools or insurer.