We started Stratford Ellis because these businesses get sold software long before anyone gives them advice.
Property runs on physical assets and skilled people, and it runs on data and systems too. Developers, asset managers, managing agents, construction and fit-out businesses and facilities operators all carry the same load. Decades of legacy tools, spreadsheets, disconnected platforms, and a queue of vendors whose advice conveniently stops at their own product. The senior, independent counsel large enterprises buy without thinking about it should be available to any serious operator, in any market.
So we advise first, and we pick up the tools only when that is genuinely the right next step.
Three principles we work to.
Advice should come before software.
Most technology projects fail at the choosing, not the building. Diagnose it properly and half the work disappears.
Independence is worth more than a product.
We hold no reseller agreements and take no referral fees. The only thing we have to protect is being right.
Advisers should be able to build.
We only recommend what we could build ourselves. It keeps the advice honest and the estimates real.
Independent, and on your side.
We do not resell anyone's software, so the advice follows what the business needs rather than what we are tied to sell. We take tangled systems and make them clear enough to specify and test. Then we stay close through the build, because new technology is worth nothing until people use it.
Enterprise discipline, aimed at how the work really gets done.
We come from enterprise data and systems work: large migrations, complicated platform rollouts, and the governance regulated organisations depend on. We apply the same discipline across property: developers, asset managers, managing agents, construction businesses and facilities teams operators.
Advice first. Building when you are ready.
An independent view of your data and systems, a costed plan you own, and a team who can build it if you want them to. That is the whole offer.