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A national product launch, built end to end: the public website and the dealer software behind it.

Website + Custom Software · AgricultureLaunched October 28, 2026exedydrones.com

Exedy Drones, a U.S. company and part of the EXEDY group, brought its AYRE CX agricultural spray drone to market through a nationwide network of authorized dealers. Think Cre8tive designed and built both halves of the launch: exedydrones.com, the public site that introduces the AYRE CX and connects every buyer with a dealer, and the Exedy Dealer Hub, a private platform where dealers order, file warranty claims, get support and manage their public listings.

exedydrones.com homepage
Exedy Drones logo
2
Platforms, one launch
website + dealer software
40+
Dealer Hub screens
20 days
Approved design to live website
Day one
Dealers onboarded
before the public launch
Services Provided

Everything behind the launch, under one roof.

Website Design & Development
Custom Software Development
Dealer Portal UX & UI
Ordering & Wire Payment Workflow
Warranty Claims & Credit Ledger
Role-Based Access Control
Dealer Locator & Live Data Feed
Lead Routing to Dealers
Automated Email Notifications
SEO, Redirects & Search Console
Accessibility & Privacy Compliance
Launch QA & Ongoing Support
The Challenge

A new product, sold only through dealers, launching nationwide.

Exedy does not sell the AYRE CX direct. Every buyer has to find a dealer, and every dealer has to order, support customers and get reimbursed for warranty work. A brochure site alone would not get the brand to launch day, and email threads and spreadsheets would not scale to a national network.

01

Turn interest into dealer conversations, since the website sells nothing directly.

02

Give dealers one place to order, track payment and shipping, and file warranty claims.

03

Keep dealer listings on the public site accurate without anyone re-keying data.

04

Make sure owners, technicians, finance staff and the Exedy team each see only what they should.

05

Publish only claims and specifications the manufacturer had signed off, on a fixed launch date.

The Approach

Two systems, designed together, sharing one source of truth.

01

A launch website built to send buyers to dealers

exedydrones.com introduces the AYRE CX and moves every visitor toward a dealer.

Product, software, warranty, reservations, dealer and support pages, plus an editorial Learn section
Dealer locator sorted by distance from the visitor's ZIP code
Reservation and Become a Dealer forms that route inquiries to the right dealer or to Exedy
301 redirects from the previous site to protect existing rankings
02

A dealer platform that runs the network

The Exedy Dealer Hub is custom software, designed and built from the ground up for how Exedy and its dealers work.

Inventory orders and drop-ship customer orders, tracked from placed to funded to shipped
Warranty cases with a nine-stage workflow, labor credits and a full credit ledger
Support tickets with attachments and a complete conversation history
Exedy reporting on orders, sales, shipping and credits by period
03

One source of truth for dealer data

Dealers maintain their own listing inside the Hub. The website reads it automatically.

A privacy-filtered public feed powers the website's dealer locator and dealer pages
Multiple locations per dealer, each with its own address and contact details
Listing changes are reviewed by Exedy before they go public
No dealer record is ever typed into the website by hand
04

Built to be trusted

Real money and real customer data move through this system, so access and privacy were designed in, not bolted on.

Role-based access for dealer owners, technicians, Exedy support, finance and administrators
Permissions enforced in the database, not just hidden in the interface
Every email logged, with templates the Exedy team can edit and preview
Accessibility, privacy notices and a cookie consent manager on the public site
Inside the Dealer Hub

Private software, built for the way dealers actually work.

Dealer Data
0

Dealer records re-keyed into the website. Dealers update their listing in the Hub, and the public dealer locator on exedydrones.com follows on its own.

The Results

Launch day, with the dealer network already working.

Launch · October 28, 2026
Live
exedydrones.com
approved design to launch in 20 days
Ready
Dealer network
onboarded in the Hub before launch
Synced
Dealer locator
fed directly by the Hub
Inside the Dealer Hub
40+
Screens designed and built
6
Built-in roles
plus custom dealer positions
9
Warranty workflow stages
25+
Automated email notifications
What Makes This Different

Most product launches stitch together a website from one vendor and back-office tools from another. Exedy got both from one team, designed together from the first screen: a public website that sends buyers to dealers, and a private platform where those dealers do business. When a dealer updates a listing, opens a warranty case or places an order, the right people know, and the public website stays accurate without anyone lifting a finger.

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