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Brigstock Vane Lettings / BB-Demo – Discovery

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Discovery call on 22 May 2023. Amy Tebbutt and Robert Vane described manual joining of CRM, accounts and maintenance data. Nell Ashcombe pitched Starter and agreed an early June demo. No decision was taken.

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Current to 11 Oct 26

Discovery call on 22 May 2023. Amy Tebbutt and Robert Vane described manual joining of CRM, accounts and maintenance data. Nell Ashcombe pitched Starter and agreed an early June demo. No decision was taken.

What happened: Nell Ashcombe ran a discovery call on 22 May 2023 with Amy Tebbutt and Robert Vane. Both described pulling tenancy, payment and maintenance data together by hand.

Customer view: Amy wants a single place to search or run a report. Robert wants to know quickly whether a property is running profitably, and called the idea of fast answers very useful.

Commercial: Nell positioned Starter and quoted twenty-eight thousand for the first year, covering implementation and subscription. Robert asked about year two and was told it is subscription only and lower, with numbers deferred until after a demo.

Watch: The figure was spoken, not a written proposal. The evidence does not show whether the demo took place or whether a proposal followed.

AI · claude-sonnet-5-5 · 11 Oct 2026

Themes

Current to 9 Oct 26
Theme
Manual property reporting pain
Importance
neutral
Sentiment
positive
Voice
decision-maker

Who was there

BB-Demo

Them

Follow-up

Next steps

Current to 9 Oct 26
  • Nell Ashcombe to send a calendar invite and a note on what to expect, for an early June demo.

Risks

Current to 9 Oct 26
  • Price was only discussed verbally and year-two cost was left open until after a demo.

Opportunities

Current to 9 Oct 26
  • Starter sale for one office, with a single place to search tenancy, payment and maintenance data.

Transcript

  1. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Hi Amy, Robert. Thanks for making the time this afternoon.
  2. Amy Tebbutt
    Amy Tebbutt None
    Good to see you.
  3. Robert Vane
    Robert Vane None
    Yeah, hello.
  4. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    So, you've got lettings properties, block management. I want to understand where the pain is. Amy, tell me: you've got CRM, you've got accounting, what does the week look like for you?
  5. Amy Tebbutt
    Amy Tebbutt None
    It's quite admin-heavy. I'll be in the CRM pulling tenancy records, then I need to check the accounts system for payments, then I'll look at maintenance requests in another system. And then it all comes together in my head, or sometimes in an email to Robert.
  6. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    So you're manually pulling things together.
  7. Amy Tebbutt
    Amy Tebbutt None
    Yes. And I'd like a single place I could search or run a report.
  8. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Right. Robert, what's the commercial view? What would you want to know faster?
  9. Robert Vane
    Robert Vane None
    Probably whether a property is running profitably. That's across rental income, maintenance costs, voids. It should be obvious, but it's not. We have to do a lot of manual calculation.
  10. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    And you're using standard systems or bespoke ones?
  11. Robert Vane
    Robert Vane None
    Standard. Salesforce for the let management, an accounting system, spreadsheets for the rest.
  12. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Okay. So if I told you there was a way to ask show me properties with the highest maintenance costs and get the answer in seconds, not hours, what would that be worth to you?
  13. Amy Tebbutt
    Amy Tebbutt None
    That would be useful, yeah.
  14. Robert Vane
    Robert Vane None
    Very useful.
  15. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Okay. So what we do is quite simple. We connect to your systems and build a searchable layer on top. You ask a question, you get an answer. No more manual reconciliation.
  16. Robert Vane
    Robert Vane None
    And the cost?
  17. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    For a team like yours, one office, one set of needs, it's Starter. That's twenty-eight thousand in the first year, which covers implementation and the subscription.
  18. Amy Tebbutt
    Amy Tebbutt None
    And what's involved in implementation?
  19. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Four weeks. We connect your systems, test everything, train you and Amy, and then you're live.
  20. Robert Vane
    Robert Vane None
    And in year two?
  21. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Subscription only, so it's lower. But let's see what a demo shows before we talk numbers.
  22. Amy Tebbutt
    Amy Tebbutt None
    When could you do a demo?
  23. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    How about early June? I'll bring someone from my team to walk you through it.
  24. Robert Vane
    Robert Vane None
    That works for us.
  25. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Good. I'll send a calendar invite and a brief note on what to expect.
  26. Amy Tebbutt
    Amy Tebbutt None
    Thank you.
  27. Nell Ashcombe
    Nell Ashcombe None
    Best.

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