AI for property businesses: less admin between the systems
Pro AI builds custom automations and AI agents for UK property companies of 10 to 200 people — lettings and management agents, developers, housebuilders and estate agents. Systems that sit between your CRM, property software, email and spreadsheets and remove the re-keying, chasing and checking. Live within weeks.
Where the hours go in a property business
Property businesses run on documents and deadlines: tenancy agreements, references, compliance certificates, valuations, offers, completion packs, service-charge statements. The software exists for each of them, and the hours disappear in the gaps — an enquiry copied from the portal into the CRM, a gas certificate renewal tracked in a spreadsheet, an arrears email written for the fortieth time. That's the work a well-built automation removes.
Enquiries and applications
Portal leads, viewing requests and applications arriving by email and re-keyed into the CRM, with response times that depend on who’s in the office.
Tenancy and sales documents
References, right-to-rent checks, agreements, offers and completion packs assembled by hand from the same information typed three times.
Compliance and renewals
Gas, electrical, EPC, fire and licensing certificates tracked across spreadsheets and calendars, with renewals missed or chased late.
Arrears, maintenance and chasing
Rent arrears, maintenance requests and contractor follow-ups handled by email, one at a time, with no live record of what’s outstanding.
What we automate first
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Enquiry triage. An AI agent reads every incoming enquiry and application, logs it in your CRM, sends the right first response and books the viewing or call — within minutes, at any hour. Anything unusual goes to a person.
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Document processing. References, ID, certificates and offer documents are read, checked against what’s required, and the tenancy or sales pack generated from a single intake. One professional-services client went from four to six hours per matter to under twenty minutes.
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Compliance tracking and renewals. Every certificate and deadline in one live register, with renewals chased automatically and exceptions flagged before they become a problem.
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Arrears and contractor chasing. Reminders sent, replies read, records updated, escalations flagged — with a person deciding anything that matters.
Our property experience
We've worked with a growing property business on the systems behind its operations; as with most of our clients, we don't publish the details. The document-processing and compliance work we've done for regulated and professional-services clients is the same pattern property firms need: compliance reporting cut by 93% for one client, 15 hours a week returned to each fee earner for another, 10,000 documents made searchable in a first deployment. See the results.
How it works with a property business
Automation Audit
£495, fixed
A two-hour workshop with the people who do the admin — usually the lettings or sales manager and the property manager — at your premises or online, followed by a written map of where the time goes and what each fix is worth.
Automation Sprint
from £2,500, one month
One system, built, tested and live within the month, reporting time saved weekly.
Automation Partnership
from £3,500 a month
Two or three systems over a minimum of three months, with monthly reporting on hours and cost saved.
We build around the property software, CRM and accounts you already run, we build model-agnostic, and every system that touches a consequential decision — a tenancy offer, a compliance deadline — has validation and human sign-off designed in.
AI for property — common questions
Will this work with our existing property management or CRM software?
In almost every case. We connect to the systems you already use by API or export rather than replacing them. If something genuinely can’t be connected, the audit will say so before you commit to anything.
Can AI handle tenant and applicant data safely?
Yes, with the right design. You own the system and the data, hosting can be UK-only, access is role-based, and we don’t use client data to train AI models. Anything that touches a consequential decision has a person signing off.
How much does this cost for a property business?
The Automation Audit is £495 fixed. A first system — enquiry triage or compliance tracking are the usual ones — is a one-month Automation Sprint from £2,500. Ongoing partnerships start at £3,500 a month.
Do you work with estate agents as well as lettings and developers?
Yes. The processes differ but the pattern is the same: information typed into several systems by hand, documents assembled from it, and deadlines tracked in spreadsheets. Our sweet spot is businesses of 10 to 200 people.
How quickly could something be live?
A first system is typically live within a month of the audit, reporting the hours it saves every week.
Find out what the admin is costing you
Two hours with the people who do it, a written map of where the time goes, and an honest answer about what to automate first. Fixed price, no obligation.
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