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Greenwich driver's glovebox problem becomes vehicle-history app

Revodo launched on 3 September 2026. Nine days later its founder counts 38 vehicles on the platform and more than 80 service records.

By The Gazette desk6 October 2026№ 304
Leroy Tuitt in Westfield White City on the day of Revodo Launch
Leroy Tuitt in Westfield White City on the day of Revodo Launch Photograph: Revodo

Leroy Tuitt built Revodo because his Range Rover service paperwork had nowhere to live except the glovebox.

He looked for a digital place to put it, could not find one that produced a continuous, transferable record, and built the thing himself in Greenwich, south-east London.

The platform went live on 3 September 2026. Nine days later it held 38 vehicles and over 80 service records, according to Tuitt's own count.

In his submission he puts the figure at 81 vehicle records created within nine days. The two numbers are his; he says they can be checked on request.

The mechanics are straightforward. An owner uploads a receipt or an invoice, and AI-assisted importing turns it into a structured record attached to a specific vehicle.

Services, repairs, parts and documents then sit alongside official MOT and recall information for that car.

The transfer feature is the part Tuitt is betting on. When a vehicle is sold, its Revodo history can be moved to another Revodo account.

The next owner carries on adding to the same record. Any garage or mechanic working on the car can be shown what has already been done to it.

That is the pitch against the status quo, where a car's history is split between whichever garage happened to do the work, the insurer, and a plastic wallet in the boot.

Tuitt describes himself as an ordinary driver who likes cars, not a motor-trade insider. The idea started earlier this year with his own service paperwork.

Revodo has not published customer numbers beyond the launch fortnight, and it has not said how many of the 38 vehicles belong to people other than early testers.

For founders watching, the interesting question is not the app but the network. A transferable record is only worth more than a folder once enough garages and second owners expect to see one.

Thirty-eight vehicles in nine days is a start, not a network. The number to watch is how many of those histories get handed to a second owner rather than abandoned at the first sale.

“Revodo began with an everyday frustration in my own glovebox, but the ambition is much larger: to give every vehicle one continuous digital history that remains useful throughout its life.”
Leroy Tuitt, founder of Revodo

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