“Climate change is now a genuine existential emergency”
“Climate change is now a genuine existential emergency”
The cost of cars is therefore a cause for concern for people.
We’re an Australian-based public company (with plans to list on the ASX) with multinational reach (and a multinational basis to justify our R&D expenses). We’re introducing a new professional role to the auto sector. We’re independent, impartial, and trustworthy in being unbiased. We’re here to help empower people with financial savvy regarding their second biggest monthly expense.
Auticus is pioneering this role because it has a unique background.
Auticus’s Founder is a past professor who has a PhD in cost engineering (the thesis then being published by the university as a book). The mathematical modelling techniques involved provided the foundation for Auticus’s core computing engine.
He has written tax software, called TAX-Ability, that was relied upon by all the big auditing firms & by a national government’s tax office. He also wrote a tax book that many of the automakers, banks and fleet companies gave to their fleet customers (as gifts on how to achieve tax-efficiency with cars).
For 20 years he has also owned and maintained the schedule of cost rates (that the Automobile Association in SA asked that he take over from them) that employers use to reimburse their staff fairly for the use of their cars.
Auticus has developed Autix to be a white-labelled, customised cloud-based computational Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that will enable automaker OEMs to add Total Costs of Ownership (TCOs) into their websites / apps …and, if they wish, their dealerships’ websites / apps. Each deployment will be customised and integrated to suit the licensee. Each deployment will take account of the local tax laws and financial regulations applicable to that country.
Triptech will be a cloud-based service, largely accessed via a smartphone app, to help car owners keep tabs on their car usage and expenses, and add intelligence as regards…
Tripmates will serve to enable sustainable car pooling and car sharing. Like a peer-to-peer version of Uber, or a peer-to-peer version of a car rental. Drivers may request the sharing of selected, genuine costs. Car pooling makes car use affordable, it reduces traffic, requires less roads / parking and is sociable. Tripmates will keep this friendly. Keep it fair. Make sure everyone pays their way. Tripmates will even make sure all shared trips are carbon-neutral (using GreenCar’d).
Auticus’s GreenCar’d will provide a means to carbon neutralise the use of any car. Built into Triptech as an option, Auticus will scientifically determine the necessary financial contribution. Typically this cost is quite nominal. GreenCar’d will facilitate employers being able to collaborate with their staff (those interested) on this expense - on terms that they can decide for themselves, which Auticus will then administrate for them (making it really easy). Auticus then helps to facilitate university climate change research by way of giving Triptech users the choice of a line-up of PhD students asking for funding. Auticus will facilitate these contributions being tax-deductible donations (potentially with WorkPlace Giving arrangements) through a not-for-profit Auticus Institute set up for the purpose. The liaison with the universities and these students is administered by an Academic Council. See www.auticus.org.
BSc(QS) [Wits] A cost consultant for the past 35+ years. Started his career as a quantity surveyor with JJ Schneid in South Africa, then moved to Sydney 24 years ago with Josh Hey....
Read More
BSc(QS) [Wits] PhD [UCT] Cost Engineer, and a past Associate Professor and Associate Dean of of the faculty of Sustainable Development at Bond University. Author of two books: one....
Read More
BSc(IT)[Goldsmiths, U. of London] MBA [Sasin] MSc(Analysis, Design & Mgmt of Info Systems) [LSE] Direct marketing, CRM & retail experience Extensive data science and CR....
Read More
LLB BCom [Canterbury] Past Sharebroker, Forsyth Barr Past Solicitor and Company Secretary Past General Manager - Laboratory & Support Svcs, Canterbury District Health Board ....
Read More
Bachelor of Business, Accounting & Finance [CQU] FCPA FGIA CEO of modnpods Past Director - Transformer (startup incubator), Bond University Past CEO, Superloop (at the time....
Read More
BSc(QS) [Wits] MBA (Cum Laude) [Reading] Colin is the Joint Managing Partner of Rider Levett Bucknall (‘RLB’) Singapore and Regional Practices, a global cost consultancy. A ....
Read More
Bill is admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of NSW; holds a Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Commerce (Economics), Diploma of Corporate Management and a Bachelor of Science (....
Read More