Owllys
Legal Technology (UK Parking Enforcement)

ParkingAppealMate

Full-Stack Legal-Tech SaaS Platform

End-to-end product design, development, and deployment

Key resultsparkingappealmate.co.uk
35
Legal Strategies
Encoded across private and council tickets
30+
Operator Database
UK parking operators profiled
24
SEO Pages
High-intent landing pages
100%
Legal Compliance
PoFA 2012, GDPR, PCI-DSS
<£70/yr
Infrastructure Cost
Ultra-low cost architecture
9.5/10
Security Rating
Comprehensive hardening
The challenge

A legal-tech engine that ships

Build a production-grade SaaS platform capable of guiding users through the entire UK parking ticket appeal process — encoding complex parking law into an automated strategy engine, with frictionless UX, near-zero infrastructure cost, and full legal compliance from day one.

Production-grade platform

Build a SaaS platform that guides users through the entire UK parking ticket appeal process.

Encode complex law

Automate strategy detection across the Protection of Freedoms Act, Traffic Management Act and BPA Code of Practice.

Frictionless UX

Convert visitors into paying customers with minimal drop-off and zero-friction onboarding.

Near-zero cost

Launch at near-zero infrastructure cost, scaling expense only as revenue grows.

Full compliance

Achieve GDPR, ASA advertising and Trading Standards compliance from day one.

Value-first design

Show users their appeal strategies before requiring login or payment.

The solution

What we built

We delivered a complete, production-ready SaaS platform encompassing frontend, backend, infrastructure, payments, SEO, and security — all built to enterprise standards.

Intelligent ticket analysis engine

OCR-powered intake using Google Vision API extracts PCN number, issuer, dates, contravention code and penalty amount from a photo — parsed in seconds.

Legal strategy detection system

A rules engine encoding 35 appeal strategies across private (18) and council (17) tickets, evaluating ticket data against a hierarchy of legal grounds and ranking them by effectiveness. Includes 30+ operator profiles.

Professional document generation

Generates tailored appeal letters in DOCX and PDF, each referencing specific legislation, evidence requirements and the formal structure operators and tribunals expect.

Frictionless conversion funnel

A 6-step flow optimised for conversion — Upload → Analysis → Questions → Processing → Preview → Download — with no login required until users have seen their strategies.

Authentication & security

Passwordless login via 6-digit magic codes plus Google OAuth, JWT RS256 asymmetric encryption, Helmet.js, rate limiting, CORS, input sanitisation and admin audit logging. Security rating 9.5/10.

SEO & content infrastructure

24 SEO-optimised landing pages — 9 operator guides, 10 city guides, 6 location-type guides — each server-rendered with structured data, meta tags and conversion-optimised CTAs.

By the numbers
35
Legal Strategies
Encoded across private and council tickets
30+
Operator Database
UK parking operators profiled
24
SEO Pages
High-intent landing pages
100%
Legal Compliance
PoFA 2012, GDPR, PCI-DSS
<£70/yr
Infrastructure Cost
Ultra-low cost architecture
9.5/10
Security Rating
Comprehensive hardening
Highlights

What makes it production-grade

  • OCR-powered ticket analysis with Google Vision API
  • Rules engine encoding 35 appeal strategies
  • 6-step conversion funnel with value-first design
  • Passwordless auth + JWT RS256 encryption
  • 24 SEO-optimised landing pages with structured data
  • Infrastructure cost under £70/year
Legal & regulatory

Compliant from day one

  • Zero ASA / Trading Standards violations
  • UK GDPR compliant — data stored in London
  • No misleading success-rate claims
  • Legal disclaimers on every page and letter
  • Honest metrics only — no fake testimonials
  • 1-year data retention policy
Technology

The stack underneath

Frontend·Expo SDK 54 + React Native
Backend·Express.js on Node.js
Database·Firestore (London)
OCR·Google Vision API
Payments·Paddle
Hosting·Google Cloud Run
CDN / Security·Cloudflare
Services delivered

End to end, by one team

  • Product strategy & UX design
  • Full-stack development
  • Cloud infrastructure & optimization
  • Payment integration (Paddle)
  • OCR integration (Google Vision API)
  • Authentication system (passwordless + OAuth)
  • SEO strategy & implementation
  • Security hardening
  • Production deployment & monitoring
The outcome

What the client got

  • A production-deployed platform with live payments, OCR and document generation
  • A scalable architecture handling 0 to tens of thousands of users without re-engineering
  • An SEO foundation with 24 landing pages and structured data for organic traffic
  • Enterprise-grade security with secrets management and audit logging
  • Near-zero operating costs until meaningful revenue
  • Mobile-ready codebase — iOS and Android apps from existing code

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