Category: Work
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From Files to Chains: The Next Abstraction in Conveyancing
Over the past decade, conveyancing platforms have materially improved how individual transactions are processed. Compliance is tighter, documents are handled digitally, and workflows within cases are clearer and more structured than they were ten years ago. And yet coordination work has not reduced. In many firms, it has increased. That looks like a contradiction, but…
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The Coordination Tax: What All Property Delays Have in Common
The Infrastructure Now Exists What’s changed is not awareness of the problem: the industry has understood for years that property chains are the dominant source of delay, uncertainty and failure in home buying. What has changed are the constraints around addressing it. For a long time, shared chain visibility was theoretical. The data was fragmented…
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AI | Claude Does Its Own Work: January 2025
I should mention – these posts themselves show what I’m describing. I’ve been speaking observations into voice notes, Claude’s been helping structure them. Not writing for me, but actually working with me. Co-work This was the month Claude started doing actual work rather than just helping with work. Co-work let me give Claude tasks, not…
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Why Conveyancers Are Doing Coordination Work They Were Never Meant to Do
For years, delays in property transactions have been quietly attributed to conveyancing. Too cautious. Too slow. Too overloaded. That framing misses something more fundamental. Conveyancers didn’t slow the system down. They inherited the job of holding it together. A Role That Quietly Expanded The modern conveyancer is no longer just responsible for legal diligence. In…
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Why Home Buying Is Still Slow: A Coordination Problem, Not a Motivation Problem
Every few years, the same question resurfaces: why does buying and selling a home still take so long, fall through so often, and feel so uncertain for consumers? The answers are usually familiar. Too much paperwork. Too many professionals. Not enough digitisation. A lack of urgency. A lack of accountability. But these explanations, while not…
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Why Chain Intelligence Is Property’s Missing Smart Data Infrastructure
How Shared Visibility Can Transform the UK Property Market The UK property market does not fail because people do not work hard enough. It fails because no one can see the whole picture. The Challenge of Chains in UK Property Around 55% of UK residential transactions sit inside chains. Buyers depend on sellers; sellers depend…
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AI | Context is King : December 2024
November ended with fragmentation. December brought an unexpected answer, though not the one I’d been looking for. I’m still capturing these as voice notes and working with Claude to structure them. The irony isn’t lost on me that I’m moaning about switching between tools whilst dictating this into my phone. But that’s rather the point…
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AI | The Great Unbundling: November 2024
I’m writing these not because I’ve worked it all out, but because I haven’t. We’re in the middle of something that matters, and there’s value for me in recording what it actually feels like to navigate this in real time – the frustrations, the small wins, the dead ends. These aren’t reflections on the future…
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A Simple Map for Digital Property: The Signposting, the Rails, and the Trains
Project 28 launched in September with something the property industry rarely achieves: genuine consensus. A clear target – 28 days from sale agreed to exchange – and broad agreement that faster, more certain transactions are worth working towards. It’s hard to argue against that, which is precisely why it’s valuable. For once, everyone’s pointing in…
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Every Chain Has a Weakest Link: The Hidden Bottleneck in UK Transactions
Why Transaction Chain Visibility Is Now the Industry’s Most Urgent Challenge A £300,000 sale falling through because no one knew the chain had already broken three weeks earlier. It happens every day in UK property, and it’s entirely preventable. The culprit? Invisible chains that leave everyone working blind. Every property move is only as fast…
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