The whole book in ninety seconds: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 00 · The whole book in ninety seconds · 1:30 planned

Contents

Eleven working modules, each filmed doing its job. The stills below are live screenshots of the demo book; the films drop into their plates as they are cut, and every runtime shown is a planned length until then.

Why AI‑native beats bolted‑on

Most CRMs added a text generator and called it AI. Acorn was built the other way round: every one of its ~95 staff capabilities, from drafting a letter to publishing a listing, is also a tool its agents can hold. Same permissions, same audit trail, same rules. That is the whole trick, and it changes what the software can take off your desk.

The bolt‑on

Acorn

Drafts a paragraph and leaves the job with you

Does the job end to end, then reports

Lives in a side panel with powers of its own

Holds the same ~95 capabilities as your staff, nothing more

No record of how it got there

Every run in a flight recorder, step by step

Either cannot act, or acts unasked

Consequential actions wait in your approval queue

A workforce that never sleeps

Three agents ship with the demo book: an enquiry handler on a ten-minute heartbeat, a compliance chaser sweeping hourly, an arrears agent at eight each morning. Each one works the same queue your staff would, and every run is recorded step by step in the flight recorder: reasoning, tools, outcomes.

Heartbeats10 min to daily
Every runrecorded in full
Risky stepsparked for you
The agents console, live: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 01 · The agents console, live · 1:10 planned

Anything risky waits for your stamp

When an agent wants to send, serve or charge, it stops here first. You read the exact email or text before it leaves, add a note for the audit trail, and approve or decline. Approving runs the action once, as you; declining stops it. Every decision is audited.

Previewthe exact text
Decisionsaudited, noted
Queuelive, every 5s
The approval queue: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 02 · The approval queue · 1:05 planned

Listings that cannot go out illegal

Every property carries its EPC and statutory record from instruction to listing. If a rating sits below the legal minimum for letting, Acorn blocks the publish until it is put right, so an unlawful listing never reaches a portal with your name on it.

EPC and MEESchecked at publish
Instruction to listingone flow
Statusesstamped on the register
The property register: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 03 · The property register · 1:15 planned
The compliance clock: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 04 · The compliance clock · 1:12 planned

Every statutory clock, always ticking

EICR, gas safety, EPC, Right to Rent, deposit protection: every deadline across the portfolio, amber inside thirty days and red when overdue. The chaser agent sweeps hourly and drafts the chasing itself.

Sweephourly, by agent
Clock healthone percentage
Tenancies and deposits: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 05 · Tenancies and deposits · 1:18 planned

Renters' Rights, already the default

New tenancies are periodic by default under the Renters' Rights Act while legacy ASTs stay readable. The deposit clock counts the days left to protect, and landlord statements live one tab away.

Deposit clockdays counted
Statementsper landlord
Enquiries and messages: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 06 · Enquiries and messages · 1:08 planned

Every enquiry answered, on the record

The enquiry agent qualifies new leads, matches applicants and offers the next step, texting back even the calls you missed. Every draft and send, human or agent, sits in one message ledger.

Queueworked every 10 min
Missed callstexted back
The viewings diary: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 07 · The viewings diary · 0:58 planned

A diary that closes its own loops

Book, confirm and cancel viewings against live listings, assign the negotiator, and capture the outcome while it is fresh, ready for the vendor call.

Bookingslive listings only
Outcomesrecorded, quoted

Offer to exchange, nothing skipped

Valuation to instruction, offer to exchange to completion. Fall-throughs stay on the board rather than vanishing, and relaying an offer to the vendor is never skippable, exactly as the law expects of an agent.

Offersrelay never skippable
Fall-throughsstay on the board
Feesquoted and tracked
The sales pipeline: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 08 · The sales pipeline · 1:14 planned
The people register: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 09 · The people register · 0:55 planned

One record per person, however many roles

A landlord who is also selling. An applicant who becomes a tenant. Acorn keeps one record with stamped roles, so nobody is filed twice and nothing falls between two copies of the same person.

Rolesvendor to solicitor
Duplicatesnone, by design
Maintenance and work orders: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 10 · Maintenance and work orders · 1:02 planned

From gas smell to closed work order

Tenants report, the board triages, contractors quote, and the work order sees it through. Emergencies surface first, and nothing closes without a record of who did what.

Boardreported to closed
Prioritiesemergency to routine

The whole book at a glance

One page of tiles for listings, enquiries, pipeline, arrears, compliance and approvals. Search people, properties and postcodes from anywhere, or press command K and ask Acorn to work the queue itself: chase late rent, draft gas cert reminders, book the next step.

Searchpeople, properties, postcodes
Command barask Acorn, cmd-K
Tileslistings to approvals
Dashboard and search: a still from the Acorn appFilm to follow
PLATE 11 · Dashboard and search · 1:06 planned

Built on the rails your regulators read

Compliance in Acorn is not a report you remember to run. It is a set of clocks that tick on their own, chased hourly by an agent that always asks first.

Renters' Rights Actperiodic by default
MEES minimum EPCpublish blocked below it
Estate Agents Act 1979offers always relayed
Deposit protectiona 30-day clock, counted

Proof, not promises

In closed demo

Acorn is in closed demo with UK agencies now. Testimonials will be printed here when the agents have earned them; until then, judge the product by watching it work.

Pricing

To be announced

Pricing is being finalised with the first agencies and will be published on this page. If you want to be one of them, ask about founding terms.

Open the book on your agency

A thirty‑minute walkthrough of the demo book: your modules, your rules, and the agents working live while you watch the approval queue fill.

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