Pricing
We build PREEMPT around your business.
Not a shelf product with boxes to tick. Three things are configured for every client: the data modules you need, the criteria that decide what counts as an opportunity in your business, and the sales regions your team actually works to. Then we train your people on it by role. That is why there is no price list — we are not selling the same thing twice.
What gets configured
Three layers, and two of them are yours rather than ours.
The modules
Landlord structures, stock, maintenance and expenditure, procurement consortia, in-house delivery, new build, landlord performance, retrofit and decarbonisation, contracts and tenders, alerts, and the contractors and housebuilders delivering the work.
You get the ones that bear on what you sell. A supplier working in fire safety and one working in heat pumps are looking at different parts of the same market.
Your business criteria
Criteria decide which contracts, frameworks and tenders are worth your attention. They are built from CPV codes and keywords, and we build them with you rather than handing you a category list to pick from.
CPVs go in at two levels: the codes that are unmistakably your work, and the ones that sit adjacent to it. Keywords catch what the coding misses — the terms your market actually uses, which are frequently not the terms the notice was filed under.
Then the part that matters: we rank rather than filter. Notices published through Find a Tender, and the legacy OJEU records behind them, are inconsistently coded. Wrong CPVs, vague titles, the real scope three paragraphs into a PDF. A filter forces a yes-or-no decision on data that will not support one, and whichever way you set it you either drown or you miss things. Ranking refuses the choice. Every contract, framework and tender lands on one of five levels:
Only your most important CPVs, and nothing else
The entire contract is your trade. No other work is bundled in, so this is a job you can go after in your own right.
A most important CPV, and one or more of your keywords
Your category, corroborated by the language your market actually uses.
A general CPV, and one or more of your keywords
Loosely coded, but the wording says it is yours. This is the level that rescues badly filed notices.
A most important CPV, amongst others
Your work is in the package, alongside other trades. Usually a subcontract position or a main contractor route in.
Any of your general CPVs
Peripheral. Kept within reach rather than discarded.
Notice what levels one and four separate. The same CPV appears in both. The difference is whether anything else is in the package — which is the difference between a contract you bid for and a contract you are a line item in. No tender feed makes that distinction, and it is usually the first thing a sales director wants to know.
How many sets you need depends on how many fronts your business sells on. Some clients need one. Others need four or five — heating, decarbonisation, new build, works to existing homes — each ranked on its own terms and routed to the people who work on that part of the business. It follows the shape of your business, not a package tier.
Why it matters: the fear is not a full inbox. It is the contract a competitor won that you never saw.
Your sales regions
Your team is organised into territories. Those territories decide who owns which account, how targets are set, and how the pipeline gets reviewed. They are almost never the same as government regions or postcode areas.
We import your regions and apply them across everything in the system. Landlords, contracts, stock, contacts, alerts — all of it reported in the geography your team already uses. Nobody has to translate anything back into the shape the sales director thinks in. All we need is however you already record them: a spreadsheet, a map, a list of postcode groupings. We do the rest.
One thing worth knowing up front: most social housing data is published at local authority level, so postcode-based territories are mapped onto LA areas on a best-fit basis. Where one of your regions cuts through an LA area there will be some overlap. We would rather tell you that than imply a precision the published data does not support.
Why it matters: most platforms quietly hand you a translation job that recurs every reporting cycle. This removes it.
It grows with the team. How many people are covered is agreed alongside the modules, the criteria and the regions, and you can add more whenever you need to. There are no further module fees when you do — the data is licensed to the business, not to each person. What you pay for an additional user covers getting them set up and trained on the same role-based session everyone else had, so the tenth person to join is as useful as the first.
There is nothing for you to set up. We do the configuration, and it starts in the first conversation rather than after you have signed. The only thing we need from your side is the document you already have listing your sales regions. No implementation phase, no project plan, nothing for your team to build. By the time you are looking at PREEMPT properly, you are looking at your own territories.
And then we make sure it gets used
Training is by audience, not one session for everybody.
The person who signs the contract and the person who opens it every morning do not need the same hour. A platform that three people log into for a month is a renewal conversation you lose, so we train the roles separately.
Directors and heads of sales
Is the patch actually balanced, or is one region quietly holding twice the stock of another? Should an account sit with the region that has the head office or the region that has the homes, when those are different places? Which competitors are winning work, and where? Regional and national figures in a click, for the meeting rather than for the analyst.
BDMs, specification and support
The daily workflow, task by task and on your own accounts: building a target list, finding the right person, setting the alerts, getting a report out of it. This is where the dashboard, campaign builder and report builder earn their keep — the report builder especially, because it is what makes the team self-sufficient.
Why it is in the price rather than beside it. Data nobody uses is indistinguishable from data you do not have. Adoption is the whole difference between a subscription that renews and one that quietly does not, so we treat it as part of the product rather than as an upsell.
Why there is no price list
Because we would have to invent one.
A shelf product has a shelf price. Two clients buying different modules, working to different criteria, across different territories, with different teams to bring up to speed, are not buying the same thing — and pricing them as if they were would mean one of them paying for the other’s requirements.
So we scope it and quote it once. Annual, on a rolling contract, priced annually because the work that wins social housing contracts happens between tenders rather than during them.
1. How your team is organised
A conversation about what you sell and who needs access, and your regions in whatever form you already keep them. Nothing to prepare.
2. What we hold in your patch
The landlords in those territories, what we have on them, and honestly where it is thinner than you would want.
3. One number
Scoped to the configuration you agreed, including how many people it covers. Room to add more as the team grows, without re-buying anything.
Answers the standard views do not give
Most of what you need, you can build yourself.
The report builder covers the questions the standard views do not, and using it is part of the training for whoever needs it. That is deliberate. Waiting on someone else for a number is how a subscription stops being opened.
Occasionally something falls outside it — a client asks whether we hold something nobody has asked for before, or wants analysis that does not exist yet. Where it is worth doing, we take it on and quote it separately. It is not a standing service, and we would rather say so than have you waiting.
Straight answers
The three questions people ask before they book a call.
Are you more expensive than the platforms that publish a price list?
No. For a comparable configuration our pricing sits in the same range as the platforms that publish theirs. The difference is not the number, it is what sits behind it: yours is scoped to the modules you will actually open, the criteria your business runs on and the regions your team works to, rather than picked off a tier that bundles in things you will never use. If you want a sanity check before investing any time, ask on the call — we will tell you the order of magnitude in the first ten minutes rather than at the end of a process.
Can I start small and add to it later?
Yes, and most clients do. Modules can be switched on as the business needs them, additional criteria can be built when a new part of the business needs its own, and seats are added as the team grows without re-buying the data. Nothing about starting with one region and one set of criteria makes it harder to expand later.
How long before we are actually using it?
Days, not months. The configuration is built during the scoping conversation rather than afterwards, and the only thing we need from you is the document you already have listing your sales regions. Training is booked around your team rather than delivered as a single session everyone has to attend.
Built around your business
Tell us how your team is organised and we will show you your patch.
Including where our coverage is thinner than you would want. You will know that before you commit to anything.