We were the client before we were the supplier.
Slow responses, rate-card pricing, and technology that was always arriving next quarter. We saw the problem from the inside for long enough to know it was structural rather than bad luck, and then we built the fix.
Four firms, none of whom speak.
A broker signs the contract. A bureau checks the invoices. A consultant writes the ESG report. A funder arrives years later to look at the roof.
Each is competent and each is working from a different version of the data, which is why the budget is built on numbers nobody has checked and the invoice nobody has queried is the one that recurs for three years. Doing all of it from one data model is not a convenience. It is the only arrangement in which the figures at one end of the chain reconcile with the figures at the other.
Two people who have held the other side.
James Grayson
Co-founder · clients, procurement strategy and pricing
Previously ESG Lead at a real estate investment business, where he was on the buying side of exactly the arrangement described above. Runs client relationships, procurement strategy and the pricing framework.
- jamie@theuniqco.co.uk
- Direct
- 07714 425 355
Matt Edison
Co-founder · bureau and operations
Formerly Head of Property Management at a London property business, responsible for the service charge and the occupier relationship. Runs the bureau, the operations and the platform the whole firm works on.
- matt@theuniqco.co.uk
Stated plainly, because it is the differentiator.
- We do not hide the margin. It is the same on every offer and it is written on the line.
- We do not hold a supply licence, and we will not imply that we do.
- We do not claim an accounting treatment for a funding instrument. That is for you and your auditor.
- We do not publish a client’s name or numbers without their consent.
- We do not put a number on this website that cannot be re-counted from the system.
Start with one building.
No fee, no exclusivity, nothing to sign beyond a letter of authority.