A premium automotive manufacturer needed to rebuild its navigation application from scratch as part of a shift to a new infotainment platform, under tight timelines and with dozens of teams working in parallel. Netlight worked alongside the client as co-owners of architecture, quality and delivery, introducing modular testing standards and an analytics architecture for data-driven quality decisions.
Challenge
The client's strategic shift to a new infotainment platform meant rebuilding its navigation application, one of the most visible features in any vehicle, entirely from scratch. Dozens of teams had to establish new architectural patterns, communication frameworks and integration points at the same time. The team had to meet premium quality expectations on a tight timeline, and there was no way to capture real-world navigation performance or steer improvements with data.
Solution
Netlight worked alongside the client's engineering teams as co-owners of architecture, quality and delivery. Together we consolidated core architectural foundations, from dependency management to offline capabilities and route handling, always prioritising long-term maintainability over short-term convenience. We introduced structured cross-team alignment formats to surface integration risks early, and modular testing practices that the client's central platform teams adopted as the organisation-wide standard. We also designed an analytics architecture with the client's data teams: a data bridge connecting vehicle and backend systems, enabling data-driven quality decisions based on real-world driving behaviour for the first time.
Impact
The client is a premium automotive manufacturer with millions of connected vehicles on the road worldwide. Every piece of in-car software must meet exacting standards of quality, reliability and refinement.
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