Autoeight is a Halifax-based software studio, ten minutes from the Piece Hall. We build the platform locally, and we know the Calderdale market because we live in it. From town centre offices to Sowerby Bridge stone terraces, the inbox, the AI classifier, and the chase sequences are made for indie agencies that don't have corporate IT departments to babysit them.
Halifax property doesn't behave like the big northern cities. The mix sits across heritage Victorian stone in places like King Cross and Northowram, mid-range family stock in Brighouse and Hipperholme, and the pricier end out toward Sowerby Bridge and the rural fringes. Buyers commute east to Leeds and west to Manchester, so demand patterns shift depending on which way the rail timetable changes.
Most agencies serving this patch are independents. A few branches, a handful of negotiators, a small admin team. The chain-focused CRMs are priced for operations five times the size, with feature lists half of which the office never uses. Drop the cost too far and you're back to spreadsheets, shared Gmail and a whiteboard.
There was a missing middle. So we built it from the Halifax end of things first.
Enquiries don't arrive in one neat queue. A vendor in Northowram fills out a valuation form on the website. An applicant in Brighouse messages on WhatsApp. A landlord question lands in the office Gmail. A viewing request comes through Instagram on a Sunday night. The portals push their own messages. Half of those get triaged, the other half get buried under a Monday-morning newsletter dump.
It's the second and third follow-up that wins the instruction, and that's the one nobody has time to send. By the time you remember the Sunday message, the prospect has already booked a valuation with a competitor on King Cross Road. That's the pattern. It's not a sales problem, it's an inbox problem.
Tabbed search across sales and lettings, property pages with image galleries, valuation and viewing forms. Built so a vendor in Sowerby Bridge can request a valuation in three taps on a phone signal that drops in and out.
Web forms, Gmail, Outlook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, SMS, live chat. 14 inbound sources in one inbox so the negotiator covering Brighouse and the one covering town centre stop missing each other's messages.
Claude classifies each enquiry as vendor, applicant, landlord, viewing or maintenance. Matches the message to the right Halifax listing where it can, scores urgency, drafts a reply ready to approve.
Sequences fire on schedule but send from the agent's own Gmail or Outlook. Stops the moment the lead replies or books. The applicant in Northowram who went quiet on Tuesday gets the right nudge on Friday, automatically.
Viewings land in the negotiator's calendar with two-way Google or Outlook sync. Useful when one person is out at a King Cross viewing and the other is covering Hipperholme. No clashes, no double bookings.
Dashboard, property management, full CMS, inbox, viewings, live chat, response stats, SEO, team settings. Non-technical staff manage everything. No developer involvement required once you're live.
Custom builds typically start around £2,000 for a focused setup. 3 to 12 weeks from kickoff to your branded version going live. Fixed quote per project, no surprise hourly billing. The free 30-min audit gives you a rough budget before you commit to anything.
We're based in Halifax and we work UK-wide. Whether you're in town, the wider Calderdale and Kirklees area, across into Leeds and Bradford, or further afield down toward Manchester, the platform deploys remotely and the kickoff conversation can happen in person, on Zoom, or over coffee at the Piece Hall. Your call.
Halifax is our home base. We're a Calderdale-based custom software studio and the platform was built within ten minutes of the town hall. Whether you're sat in the Piece Hall area, Sowerby Bridge, Brighouse or further out toward Hebden Bridge, we can sit down face to face.
Yes. The unified inbox, AI classifier and chase sequences can sit on top of whatever CRM you already use. Your listings and applicant records stay put. Or we fully migrate everything across as part of the build. Your call.
3 to 12 weeks from kickoff. Halifax agencies often get a quicker turnaround because we can do kickoff and onboarding in person rather than over Zoom. Most agencies have their first AI-classified enquiry running within four weeks.
Book a free 30-min walkthrough. We'll show you the inbox, AI classifier, chase automation, and viewings module live. No commitment.
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