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RealAgentNetwork
Confidential · 2026
Angel Round · Investor Deck
Real Agent
Network Limited
An AI that operates an estate agent's book better than their best team operates their best CRM, so the hours saved go back to the conversations only they can have.
An AI-native service business led by domain experts: Over 70 years of residential estate agency plus 30 years of capital markets and technology.
Round 1, now: £100k angel · £900k pre · £1m post · founder-led sales.
Round 2, later: £350k seed · £1.4m pre · £1.75m post · blitzscale.
Joel Smalley · Adam Mackay · Alex Pelosi-Buchanan
Companies House 17237239
Slide 02 · Vision
The operating system for UK estate agency.

Every listing, every market report, every pre-valuation, every chain-progression conversation, every supplier dispatch amplified by an AI substrate that runs on the agent's own data and federates knowledge across agents on terms the agent controls.

Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckVision
Slide 03 · The Market
26,374 UK estate-agency businesses. £780m+ UK addressable at observed current spend, before service uplift.
£15.5bn
UK estate-agency industry revenue
(IBISWorld 2027 — the cohort whose margin we lift)
£280m
Current SaaS-and-tools spend
26,374 × £10.6k/business — benchmarked from Apex27, Street.co.uk, Reapit/Alto, AML platforms, adjacent
£500m+
Portal-distribution spend
Rightmove FY24 £425m + Zoopla + OnTheMarket — addressable as the brochure marketplace becomes listing infrastructure
+ uplift
White-glove service wrap
training, deployment, customer success — Anthropic-asymmetric, on top of the bare-software ACV

Business count rising at +4.5% CAGR while industry revenue falls at −1.0% CAGR is the margin-squeeze setup. RANL captures three layers: the current SaaS-tools wallet today; the portal-distribution wallet as the brochure marketplace seeds listing-network infrastructure; and a white-glove service wrap that the bare AI commodity cannot deliver. Self-employed agents (7.5× growth since 2019, ~10% share by 2030) are the cohort feeling it first and adopting fastest.

Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckThe Market
Slide 04 · Go-to-Market
Loop API live. eXp UK channel via the founders. 40+ EOIs from soft launch, zero paid spend.
Wedge · M0–M6 · Angel

40+ EOIs, 2 paid intents, 1 full-product meeting from soft launch with zero paid distribution. Brochure-from-listing-URL, public-by-default, viral via agent sharing.

Beachhead · M0–M9 · Angel

Loop CRM as first external API party. eXp UK channel via Alex (Beacons) and Adam (Muvin). Conversation-ingestion plugin compounds switching cost from day one.

Blitzscale · M9+ · Seed

Every UK property CRM integrated. Full UK agent base, lettings vertical launch, brochure marketplace and service-provider directory monetisation.

Partners. Loop CRM · Magnetic BD · Kerfuffle · eXp UK · BackleyBlack & Real Agency Club.
Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckGo-to-Market
Slide 05 · The Product
CRM-agnostic AI substrate on the agent's own hardware. An AI-native service business.

Wraps Claude Code, runs on the agent's own data and conversation archive, organises everything as an ontological graph. Customers pay Anthropic directly; RANL's marginal cost is the service layer (training, support, white-glove) that grows more valuable as AI commoditises. Already operational.

Substrate moat

Every customer's full operating history runs through an ontological-graph substrate. The longer the agent has been operating, the more valuable the moat.

Conversation-ingestion lock-in

Single repo for inbound comms across calls, WhatsApp, SMS, email, and in-person notes. Substrate-to-substrate ontology translation has no equivalent at incumbents.

Anthropic asymmetric capture

Every Anthropic improvement is incremental for RANL. Anthropic cannot demolish Claude Code's subscription benefit without nuking their own developer base.

Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckThe Product
Slide 05b · Social proof
Over 40 brochures, microsites and social sets already shipped.

Each one from a single live listing URL: a 16-page brochure, a microsite, nine social tiles in three aspect ratios, paste-ready captions. One Raspberry Pi, one solo operator, in the time it takes the agent to drive to the next valuation. Three tiles below are from one of those 40+ listings; the full portfolio lives at realagent.chat/sites/portfolio/.

Landscape social tile for Lucia Court, Pandy (1200x628)
Landscape · 1200 × 628 (Facebook, LinkedIn, X)
Square social tile for Little Caerlicken (1200x1200)
Square · 1200 × 1200 (Instagram feed)
Portrait social tile for Hudson House, Caspian Wharf (1080x1350)
Portrait · 1080 × 1350 (Instagram, Reels)
Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckSocial Proof
Slide 06 · Competition
Three failing categories. RANL is CRM-agnostic, data-sovereign, Anthropic-aligned, and already operational where the loudest competitor lands in December.
Category Structural defect every player shares
Cloud-CRM + bolted AI
Loop · Reapit · Alto · Street · Acquaint
AI runs inside the vendor's CRM on vendor-owned data; agent's data sovereignty does not exist.
Anthropic horizontal AI
Claude for SMBs · Cowork · Code in Claude Desktop
Inaccessible to the non-tech-wizard agent; field-tested by a VA on Code-in-Desktop, failed at first use.
New-build cloud-SaaS AI-OS
Iceberg Digital ("Singularity", Dec 2026)
"AI OS" only works if the agent migrates off their existing CRM onto Iceberg.
The inversion. RANL is CRM-agnostic, data-sovereign, Anthropic-aligned, and already operational where the loudest competitor lands in December.
Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckCompetition
Slide 07 · The Team
70+ years residential estate agency + 30 years capital markets and technology. Domain experts, network-rich, AI-native.
Joel Smalley
CTO · 22.41%
Joel Smalley
30 years capital markets & technology. JPMorgan · CIBC (head of global convert arb ex-US) · Tullett Prebon · Supermoney CIO. Founder of Maxy. MBA Rotman.
Adam Mackay
COO · 22.41%
Adam Mackay
33 years residential estate agency. Pestell & Co · Mackay Property Group MD · Brokerage Director, Muvin/eXp. Co-founder, Real Agency Club.
Alex Pelosi-Buchanan
Director · 18.00%
Alex Pelosi-Buchanan
15 years residential estate agency in Monmouthshire & South Wales. Founded Beacons Real Estate eXp; 2× eXp UK Capper; Best Newcomer + Video 2024.
Jamie Fisher
Partner · 13.65%
Jamie Fisher
25 years residential estate agency. Hamilton Piers · Bradford & Bingley · Taylors Branch Manager · Taylor Milburn Director. Owner, Muvin Property.
BackleyBlack (8.75% strategic shareholder). Roger Black MBE (Olympian, eXp UK Ambassador, Real Agency Club co-founder) and Steve Backley OBE (Olympian 1992–2009 BOA, BBC Athletics Commentator since 2005, author of The Champion In All Of Us and iPerform). BackleyBlack LLP since October 2009.
Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckThe Team
Slide 08 · The Raise
£100k angel now for 10% at £1m post. £350k seed later for blitzscale. IP transfers at first close.
£100k
Round 1 angel now · 10% · £1m post
£350k
Round 2 seed later · 20% · £1.75m post
£720k
M12 closing ARR (seed-funded year)
M12
Break-even on seed-funded burn
Round 2 seed · use of funds · the £350k blitzscale budget over 9 months; Year-1 revenue covers the balance
Bucket Detail £
Founder salaries Joel (CTO) + Adam (COO), 9 months gross + payroll 315,000
Customer-success hire M0 onwards, full year — onboarding, retention, high-touch 54,000
Engineer hire M3 onwards, partial year — forward deployment + support 32,000
Marketing & GTM Magnetic BD prospecting £15–20k, brochure paid distribution, EA Masters, Kerfuffle, founder travel 36,000
Professional services Accounting, legal counsel retainer, IP deed, term sheet, insurance (PI / public / cyber / D&O) 42,000
Capex M0 Dev server, founder hardware, Pi inventory, networking, office setup — one-off 34,000
Office, ops, contingency Broadband, utilities, working capital, contingency 30,000
Total opex (9 months) £543,000

The £100k angel funds founder-led sales now on a lean burn. This £350k seed budget funds the blitzscale year: opex exceeds the raise by design, with Year-1 revenue (£356k) plugging the gap. Cash low ≈£5k at M11; MRR crosses burn at M12.

Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckThe Raise
Slide 09 · Milestones
Angel funds the first nine months. Loop integration. 40+ EOIs converted.
Seed (Round 2) closes when MRR £44–£50k.
M0

Angel round (Round 1) closes. IP deed executed. Founders selling. Lean capex.

M3

~10 paying customers. Preval product shipped. MRR ~£9k.

M6

Wedge phase complete. Brochure flywheel proven. Preval pilot live. MRR ~£24k.

M9 to M10

Loop integration live. Seed (Round 2) closes (£350k) on MRR run-rate ~£44–£50k.

M12

Break-even at MRR £60k vs burn £56k. Closing ARR £720k. The seed funds Blitzscale.

Real Agent Network Limited · Investor DeckMilestones
RealAgentNetwork
Confidential · 2026
Thank you
Let's build the operating system
for UK estate agency together.
The agent behind the agent. AI that works your data on your terms, so your time goes back to the people who pay you.
CTO · Co-Founder
Joel Smalley
+44 7504 472444
COO · Co-Founder
Adam Mackay
+44 7734 875155
Director · Co-Founder
Alex Pelosi-Buchanan
+44 7894 403405
Co-Founder · Partner
Jamie Fisher
+44 7833 447941
realagent.network
Companies House 17237239
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