Agentic UK leasehold licence-to-alter application service for flat owners and commercial tenants who need landlord consent before making structural alterations, replacing the solicitor who charges £800–£2,500 to draft the licence application, produce the supporting schedule of works, and negotiate the landlord's standard conditions. Delivers a professionally drafted licence-to-alter application pack — including works schedule, contractor indemnity requirements, and reinstatement obligations — within 3 hours.
Why now
No fresh signal batch provided. Justified by the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (Royal Assent June 2024) which increased leaseholder awareness of their rights and triggered a wave of leaseholders reviewing their lease obligations — directly increasing demand for licence-to-alter guidance as leaseholders become more active in improving their properties.
Commercial value
~4.9M leasehold flats in England; a meaningful fraction undertake notifiable works annually (kitchen extensions, structural openings, bathroom moves). Solicitor fee: £800–£2,500 per application. Product fee: £299–£499. Budget line currently paid to solicitor or managing agent's solicitor. ACV per customer: one-off £299–£499 but high volume. Managing agents (who handle multiple clients) are a natural B2B channel at £150/application white-label.
Go-to-market
Target leasehold flat owners via r/LegalAdviceUK, r/HousingUK, and direct outreach to residential managing agents (ARMA members). Hook: 'Your lease requires landlord consent before you start — we draft the application for £299, not £1,500.' First 10 customers via Reddit and property renovation Facebook groups. Upsell managing agents on white-label bulk pricing.
2-week MVP
Single workflow: user uploads their lease PDF and a brief description of proposed works; LLM extracts the alterations clause, identifies what consent is required, and drafts a licence-to-alter application letter with a schedule of works template and standard contractor indemnity wording. Delivered as a Word pack. Cut: landlord negotiation, surveyor coordination, multi-party tracking. Day-1 outcome: a complete application pack the leaseholder can send to their managing agent or freeholder this week to start the consent clock running.
Agent score
0.64 — Commercial: clear £800–£2,500 solicitor fee being replaced, large leasehold population, Leasehold Reform Act 2024 creating a structural demand catalyst. Speed: lease PDF extraction + LLM + Word output is a 1-week build; Reddit property communities and ARMA managing agents are reachable without paid ads. Defensibility slightly above default (0.48) because lease clause extraction logic and the managing agent B2B channel create mild lock-in, but the core workflow is replicable.
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