Engineering posts, lender intel, product updates, and the occasional opinion. Written by people who use this every day.
Ask three advisers, get three numbers. The honest answer depends on what you count, and the gap between the FCA register, the intermediary universe, and the specialist segments is wider than most criteria tools admit.
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Specialist lending was a niche in 2020. Bridging loan books have more than doubled, BTL specialists have multiplied, and later-life entrants are reshaping the segment. If your criteria tool is mainstream-focused, you are missing the growth.
After 18 months of work, the first BrokerBricks tool is live. Here is what it does, what it does not yet do, and why a brick was the right shape.
A practical sketch of what Consumer Duty actually requires from a recommendation, and the small number of artefacts that prove it. No theatre, no acronyms.
IMLA puts the average UK mortgage broker at 95 cases per quarter. The maths says each case gets ~5 hours. The maths also says most of that time is fragmented across five disconnected tools. Here is the time audit nobody runs.
A short defence of the brick model - small focused tools that combine - versus the all-in-one platform every other broker-tech vendor sells.