About Qredact

The software F&I would build for itself.

Qredact is built by F&I, for F&I. A decade behind the desk turned into the deal queue software the industry actually needed.

Founder

Ashtin Gardner

F&I Director · A decade in the box

Ten years working every kind of deal — finance, lease, cash, conditioned approvals, sketchy trades, sketchier credit. Today an F&I Director overseeing a multi-store group. Built Qredact because the tool we needed didn't exist.

Why Qredact exists

Ten years of watching the same fight.

Every multi-rooftop group has the same problem. The strong closer cherry-picks the high-PVR deals. The new F&I gets leftovers. Sales managers spend their day refereeing instead of selling cars. The audit trail lives in a Slack thread nobody can find.

You can accept it as “the way F&I works,” or you can fix it.

I built an internal version of this for the dealership group I work at. It worked. Then I rebuilt it as something other groups could use too. That's Qredact — the same workflow, packaged for any dealership that's tired of refereeing.

What we actually believe.

The handful of principles that show up in every design decision Qredact makes.

i.

F&I software should be built by F&I people.

The industry has been served generic SaaS designed by engineers who've never sat in the box. Qredact starts from the desk, not the spec sheet.

ii.

Fair queues beat fast queues.

A queue that everyone trusts is more valuable than one that's 30 seconds faster. The blind mechanic exists because trust compounds. Speed without trust just makes the fight louder.

iii.

Compliance isn't a feature. It's a foundation.

Append-only audit logs, server-enforced redaction, role-based access — these aren't enterprise upgrades in Qredact. They're Day 1. If a tool can't prove what happened, it can't be trusted with what happens next.

iv.

A good audit trail prevents 90% of fights.

Most arguments on the F&I floor come down to “who saw what when.” Qredact answers that question automatically. The fight ends before it starts.

The mission

“Replace the daily F&I fight with a system that just works. One queue, one source of truth, one less thing to argue about.”