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Updates, deep dives and announcements.
Inside BusiPlanly — AI intake, adviser oversight, and the workflow it replaces
A walk through how BusiPlanly works for an adviser — chat-style intake, section-by-section review gates, evidence linker, client handoff — and the email-and-Word workflow it replaces.
How Landlord Lead Generator surfaces UK landlords you can actually reach
A walkthrough of how LLG sources, scores and delivers active-landlord leads to UK lettings branches — and what it deliberately doesn't do.
Inside Adminished — scheduling, payments, and the parts nobody shows you
A real week running an instructor business in Adminished — block setup, waitlist promotion, no-show charging, end-of-month reconciliation, and what's missing.
Inside CanvassIQ: how we map turf and track every conversation
A look under the bonnet at how CanvassIQ assigns turf, scores doors and remembers every doorstep conversation — and what it deliberately doesn't do yet.
AI-assisted business planning — the adviser's quality bar
A proposed standard for AI-assisted business plans — every number sourced, every assumption flagged, every section signed by a named adviser, evidence trail downloadable.
Stop buying landlord leads. Start sourcing them.
The case against bought lists — stale, oversold, no intent signal — and why signal-driven sourcing is what actually fills a managed book.
Class scheduling — rooms, recurrences, and no-shows
The genuinely hard parts of running a class schedule — room conflicts, recurring blocks with exceptions, no-show policies, waitlists, and sick-day fallbacks.
The estate agent's guide to instruction-led canvassing
Work backwards from the instruction you want, not the doors you have. A practical playbook for branch managers running canvassing in 2026.
The adviser-in-the-loop model — using AI without losing judgement
Human-in-the-loop is the wrong frame for professional services. The stronger pattern is adviser-in-the-loop, where the reviewer owns the relationship and the reputational risk.
The Renters Reform Bill — what letting agents are quietly preparing for
Section 21 is gone, periodic tenancies are the default, and management is harder than ever. Here's how the smarter agencies are repositioning.
The hidden cost of using WhatsApp as your class booking system
WhatsApp works on day one and your students already have it. By month six, it's quietly costing you money and weekends. An honest look at the trade-off.
Canvassing isn't dead — it's just been done wrong
A branch manager told us canvassing was dead. Two months later his best negotiator brought in three instructions from one well-targeted morning. Here's the difference.
What advisers actually want from a business plan template
The templates that circulate online are written for founders, not for the advisers who have to defend the plan. Here's what the adviser-side wishlist looks like.
The UK lettings prospecting playbook for 2026
A step-by-step outbound playbook for a small UK lettings agency — targeting, first-touch, second-touch, and what to say when they tell you they're happy.
Recurring payments for fitness classes without Stripe headaches
Why bare Stripe Checkout breaks for class businesses, and what good recurring billing actually looks like for class passes, blocks and rolling memberships.
Door-to-door canvassing vs digital prospecting: what wins in 2026
Wrong question. Both win when stacked. The real question is what signal triggers the door-knock — and what cost per instruction you should accept.
Why generic AI writes terrible business plans
The writing is fine. That's the problem. Business plans aren't a writing task — they're an evidence and judgement task, and AI can't tell you whether your TAM is plausible.
Every lettings agency is fishing in the same pond
The industry's addiction to portal-sourced enquiries has created a market where every agency competes for the same inbound landlord. Time to go outbound.
Fire your landing page builder and own your bookings
Pretty Wix and Squarespace pages with "book now" buttons that fling people off to Eventbrite are leaking customers at the handoff. Here's the fix.
Why high-street estate agencies are losing instructions to portals — and what to do about it
It's not price. It's timing. Portals reach the homeowner six weeks before you know the property is in play. Here's how to close that gap.
Writing a UK startup business plan in 2026 without ChatGPT slop
A plain LLM-generated plan reads like one. Here's what good 2026 structure looks like, and where AI helps versus where it actively ruins things.
How to find active landlords for your lettings agency
A practical guide to the public, paid and semi-legal sources of UK landlord data — and what to actually do with a list once you have one.
Best class booking software for yoga and pilates instructors in 2026
An honest look at Mindbody, BookWhen, Acuity and Adminished — what to look for in 2026 and why most Calendly setups quietly fall apart.
How estate agents can canvass without door-to-door burnout
Door-knocking still works, but only if you stop sending negotiators out cold. Here's how to run a 90-minute session that doesn't crush your team.
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