Seven business lenses read the same corpus as the free Brief, and not one of them is a second pipeline.
Every line of business on this page is a lens over the corpus the free Brief is built from. A lens changes which items a buyer sees first. It changes nothing about what an item says.
The reports for estate agents and for councillors are built, and what each one holds is set out in section 3. None of the seven lenses is on sale: the product is not open yet, no lens is licensed to anyone, and an enquiry starts a conversation rather than a subscription.
The two rules that bind every line
These come before the prices because they are the reason the prices can be published at all. A civic record product that quietly serves its buyers is worth nothing to the people it reports on.
A buyer cannot suppress, alter or delay an item about themselves.
A white-label licensee carries both the attribution and the correction.
The rules that decide whether an item is published at all are the same for a paying buyer as for a free reader, and they are set out on the methodology page. Everything the corpus is read from is listed in the sources register, along with what we refuse to read and why.
The seven lenses
| Buyer | What the lens pulls together | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Estate agents and conveyancers | A postcode place key, then planning inside a radius, police.uk crime, Ofsted and DfE records, EPC, Land Registry Price Paid, roadworks, licensing and flood risk, rendered as a dated report and an embeddable block, with a weekly patch report. | £49 to £199 a month per branch |
| Landlords and HMO operators | A follow set over a portfolio of property reference numbers, the licensing register, selective and additional licensing scheme consultations, and planning inside each property's ring. | £20 to £50 a month |
| Councillors and candidates | The ward polygon as a hex set, committee agendas and minutes, applications in the ward, consultations, casework categories, and the representative's own mentions. | £20 a month |
| Developers and planning consultants | The entity graph on applicant, agent and site, objection volume over time, officer report publication, committee dates, and Planning Inspectorate appeal decisions. | £100 or more a month |
| Pubs and retail | A site radius, licensing applications and reviews, Street Manager and one.network road closures, and event and transport disruption. | £30 a month per site |
| Local titles, parish councils and community networks | A place-scoped item feed under the white-label terms, with mandatory attribution, an embargo window and no right to alter the text. | Tiered |
| Offices and waiting rooms | A screen key bound to a place set and a rotation policy, with no interaction and no account. | Per screen |
Where a band above gives no price, the price is not published yet. It is agreed when an enquiry is made, and a number will appear here when it is published.
The weekly report
The estate agent and councillor lenses each carry a weekly report, built and not yet on sale. A branch or a ward receives one report for each edition week. A week runs from Monday to Sunday and its report is complete once Sunday's edition has closed. Until then the report opens on the week before.
- Every item written for the places the buyer holds, from the days of that week an editor signed off. Days that were not signed off are not read, and the report says how many were. An estate agent's report reads the streets around each branch as well as the branch's own postcode. A councillor's report reads the ward, and adds a section for the items that name the ward's representative.
- A headline, a line on what it means for you, and the records it cites. Items are grouped by planning, crime, education, licensing, transport and housing, with any other record after them. The items come from the same signed days as the free weekly edition, and they are not cut down to a few.
- It has no fixed length. A busy week holds more items and a quiet week holds fewer. A week with nothing on the record at the buyer's places says that, in one line, and does not pad.
- The report lists the open deadlines at the places the buyer holds, with the date each closes.
- In the buyer's workspace on the web, dated with the day it was made, with a link to the week before. No sample report is published on this site.
Enquiries
The form below asks which lens and which area, and a person answers it. It does not open an account, take a card or create an obligation on either side, because there is nothing yet to sell.
Talk to us about a lens
Say which lens and which area. We reply from a person.
A lens decides what a buyer sees first, and it never decides what is true.