Stratford Ellis
Advisory: where every engagement starts

Advice first. Building only when that is the right answer.

We are vendor neutral. No product to protect, no reseller margin riding on the outcome. We look at how the business actually runs, from jobs and sites to assets, data, systems and money, and give you a straight assessment, a prioritised plan and honest numbers. You own the plan. Take it to your own team, take it to another firm, or ask us to build it.

01

Assess

Time in your data, systems and workflows, alongside your people. As long as it takes to get a real picture.

02

Diagnose

What is costing you, what is a risk, and what is just noise.

03

Recommend

A costed plan in order of priority, with the trade-offs spelled out.

04

Build or hand over

We build it, or you do. Both are fine by us.

Business strategy and planning

Where the business should be spending its money and attention over the next few years, and what it should leave alone.

  • A roadmap with dates and costs
  • Where you sit against competitors
  • How the business actually makes money
  • Growth plans that survive contact with capacity
  • The risks worth worrying about
  • Numbers to measure it all against
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Business process optimisation

We map how work really moves through the business, then cut out the steps that cost you time and money.

  • Process maps of how work flows today
  • Where the time goes
  • What can be automated, and what should not be
  • Metrics that mean something to the field
  • Quality checks people will follow
  • How to keep improving after we leave
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Compliance and governance

Meeting the rules your sector runs on, with records you can produce the day someone asks for them.

  • Where you stand against your obligations
  • Data protection and privacy in practice
  • Getting ready for an audit
  • Policies written to be read
  • Who decides what, and who signs it off
  • Ongoing monitoring and reporting
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Organisational change

A new system only pays off when people use it. We plan for site teams and the back office, and for the months after go-live.

  • How ready the business really is
  • Bringing managers and site teams with you
  • What to tell people, and when
  • Working with the culture you have
  • Handling the people who dig in
  • Checking adoption after go-live
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Data strategy and governance

What your data should look like, who owns it, and how to get it into a state you can trust.

  • A data strategy in plain terms
  • Ownership and accountability
  • Fixing and keeping data quality
  • One version of customers, sites and assets
  • How the data should be structured
  • A reporting and analytics plan
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Where to start

The Property Technology & Data Assessment

A fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement. Two to three weeks of our time, then a decision-ready answer. No open-ended discovery, no day-rate drift.

The questions it answers

  • Where is operational time being lost, and what does it cost?
  • Which systems should stay, and which should go?
  • Where are data quality problems distorting reporting?
  • What should be integrated, and what should be left alone?
  • What should be automated, and what should not?
  • What should the next twelve months of technology investment look like?
  • What will it realistically cost, and in what order?

What you receive

  • System landscape
  • Data risk assessment
  • Process findings
  • Prioritised recommendations
  • Future-state architecture view
  • Costed roadmap
  • 90-day action plan

You own all of it. Execute it with your own team, another partner, or us. We take no reseller margin and no referral fees either way.

Scope an assessment

Start with advice, not a sales pitch.

Book a call and we will give you an independent read on your data, systems and operations. Where the money is leaking, what to fix first, what it should cost. You leave with a plan you own, whether or not we build it.