The information you need to buy safely exists. It's just scattered across a dozen registries, portals and PDFs — and nobody has ever pulled it together for buyers. We do. Here's how.
Next: AI synthesis
Drop an address and we go to work. We pull from every UK record that matters: Land Registry, the Title Register, EPC, the Building Safety Register, Environment Agency flood data, local planning portals, ONS census, and OpenStreetMap.
Next: Human review
A frontier AI model reads thousands of pages of records in seconds and assembles them against our library of buyer-side risk patterns — built from hundreds of conversations with people who got stung after exchange. It surfaces what a normal buyer would never spot.
End-to-end
Every report is read by a real property expert before it reaches your inbox. They sanity-check the AI, fix anything off, and add the judgement calls only experience can make. This is why it takes up to 24 hours — and why you can act on it.
What we read
Most of these are public records that nobody bothers to consult because the work to pull them together by hand is enormous. We've built the plumbing once, so every report runs on the same evidence base.
Price-paid data, title registers, leasehold details and the full transaction history of the building and street.
Lease length, ground rent, service charge clauses, restrictive covenants and freeholder identity.
Cladding status, fire-safety flags and remediation history for buildings over 11m and 18m.
Surface-water, river/sea and groundwater flood risk; pollution and ground-condition alerts.
Energy-performance ratings, floor area and the recommendations that drive future running costs.
Planning applications on the property, the building and immediately around it.
Owner-occupier vs renter mix, age profile and the texture of the neighbourhood at LSOA level.
Our own growing library of buyer-side risk patterns, sourced from real conversations with first-time buyers and case files we've seen up close.
Why a human still signs it off
Frontier AI is brilliant at reading thousands of pages in seconds. It's also capable of being confidently wrong. We don't let it have the last word. Every Backstory report is reviewed by a real property expert before it reaches you. That's why it takes up to 24 hours, and why you can act on what it says.
We don't work for the seller, the agent or the developer. We only work for you.
Drop in an address. Your free report lands within 24 hours.
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