01 · Arrive
Create or find the donor record
The vehicle identity, source, arrival reference and available documents are brought together. A mismatch remains visible for authorised staff to resolve.
Authorised treatment facilities · Vehicle dismantlers · Auto recyclers
Vehicle dismantling automation, around the system you already use
Keep the donor vehicle, intake evidence, destruction status and recovered-parts record connected without replacing a working dismantling or stock platform. Your authorised staff retain every statutory, treatment and grading decision.
Fixed scopeQuoted before work starts
Human controlDecisions stay with your team
Honest boundaryKeep existing systems where they work
From vehicle arrival to a findable recovered-part record
A dismantling platform may already cover much of this journey. We identify the unsupported handoff—often evidence capture, duplicate entry, location updates or retrieval—and connect it to the record your team already trusts.
02 · Evidence
Attach the source material
Images, documents and recorded checks stay linked to the vehicle and event rather than being scattered across phones, folders and paper files.
03 · Record
Keep statutory decisions human
An authorised person records the relevant treatment or destruction status in the approved system. Automation carries the fact; it does not make the decision.
04 · Recover
Link the item to its donor
A reusable item can inherit the donor reference and known vehicle details while description, condition and grading stay with the responsible team member.
05 · Locate
Record where the item went
A confirmed shelf, bay or container movement updates the supported stock record. Unrecorded physical movement cannot be corrected by a dashboard.
06 · Retrieve
Find the record and its evidence
Search or reconciliation can bring the vehicle, part, location and supporting record together without creating an ungoverned duplicate database.
One donor vehicle, followed into the parts record
This is an illustrative information flow. The exact fields, decisions and approved systems come from the ATF's own process and responsibilities.
A vehicle arrives and a reusable component is recovered
- Intake
- The vehicle identity, source reference, arrival time and evidence receive one internal record or match an existing one.
- Decision
- An authorised team member completes the required checks and records the outcome through the appropriate system; the automation does not infer it.
- Recovery
- The component record carries the donor reference and selected known details, while a person confirms description and condition.
- Location
- The actual bay or shelf is recorded at the handoff point and passed to the supported stock route.
- Query
- Later, the team can retrieve the part record, donor link and supporting evidence without searching several unrelated folders.
Connect, do not recreate, a dismantling platform
A working vehicle and parts platform should remain the system of record. We assess its documented API, exports, imports and supported workflows, then quote the smallest connection that removes duplicate work or makes missing evidence visible.
Useful connection points
Records around the core platform
- Vehicle intake document capture
- Donor-reference handoff to parts records
- Supported location or stock update
- Exception and incomplete-evidence queue
- Reconciliation and document retrieval
Separate commercial scope
Not assumed from an intake project
- Marketplace listings and image preparation
- Parts pricing or interchange data
- Customer orders, payment and invoicing
- Courier and despatch integration
- Yard hardware, labels and devices
The traceability boundary: a system can preserve a donor link only when the identifier is recorded at recovery and maintained at each later movement. Software cannot reconstruct an unrecorded physical history with certainty.
Statutory routes stay separate from operational automation
GOV.UK describes the DVLA certificate of destruction and notification of destruction service for authorised treatment facilities. The ATF remains responsible for using the correct service and keeping accurate records; Inferred does not issue a certificate or make that statutory decision on the operator's behalf.
CoD and NoD
Evidence organised, responsibility retained
A bounded workflow may make the intake evidence and recorded outcome easier to retrieve. The authorised user still completes the official route and remains responsible for what is submitted.
Waste receiving records
A different reporting workstream
If the site also needs to prepare receiving records for mandatory digital waste tracking, see our separate digital waste tracking readiness review. It maps the data and named submission route without claiming compliance.
Written into every scope: which system owns the vehicle record, who makes and submits statutory decisions, what the automation copies, and how incomplete or conflicting evidence is handled.
Primary guidance: Certificate of destruction and notification of destruction service and end-of-life vehicle guidance for waste sites, GOV.UK.
A bounded operational build, with the exclusions in writing
Automation project
Fixed price from £1,495
- One repeated intake or records handoff mapped
- Named system of record and supported connection
- Human decisions and exceptions identified
- Retrieval or reconciliation output
- Working system, documentation and code you own
Not included
No implied compliance or platform replacement
- Replacement dismantling or stock platform
- Issuing a CoD or submitting statutory records for you
- Legal advice, permitting or waste classification
- Parts grading, safety or interchange decisions
- Marketplace, ecommerce and hardware unless quoted
When we would tell you not to buy: if your current platform already connects the donor, evidence, recovered part and location—and the team uses it consistently—another workflow would create a second place to maintain.
Questions vehicle dismantlers and ATFs ask
Do we need to replace our dismantling software?
Usually not. We first establish which record it owns and which supported interfaces it offers. The useful project is normally an unsupported handoff around the platform, not a new platform.
Can Inferred issue certificates of destruction?
No. The authorised treatment facility uses the official DVLA route and remains responsible for the submission and accuracy. We can only scope supporting record flow around that process.
Does this cover digital waste tracking?
Not automatically. Receiving-site reporting is a separate data and submission workstream. Our readiness review maps it explicitly before any integration is proposed.
Can it identify or grade every recovered part?
No. It can carry confirmed vehicle details and references into a draft record. Identification, condition, grading, interchange and suitability decisions remain with competent people and trusted data sources.
What if we process only a few vehicles?
If the current record process is quick, consistent and easy to retrieve, automation may not repay its cost. We measure the duplicate effort and exception load before recommending a build.
Can sensitive operational data remain private?
Yes. Processing can run on infrastructure you control. We still map the existing email, platform and backup routes so the privacy boundary is accurate rather than assumed.
Bring one intake record and one recovered-part record
The first call is fifteen minutes and free. We will trace where the link breaks, what your current platform supports and whether a small operational workflow is worthwhile.
If the honest answer is that the process needs the system rebuilt rather than one step automated, that is a bespoke parts, collection and dismantling system.