Customers

Customers

Clients who design, develop and manage property

Whoever carries the property cost, the evidence question is the same: do the records match the building? Pick the desk that sounds like yours, or send the enquiry straight in.

Who we help

Pick the desk that fits

Project Managers

Measured foundations for design, planning and cost control on live schemes.

Facilities Managers

Space, compliance and contractor data for the buildings you run.

Asset & Property Managers

One evidence layer across the whole schedule, screened for savings.

Developers

Verified site facts from acquisition through completion and disposal.

Business Owners

A straight answer on whether the premises costs more than it should.

Multi-Site Operators

Groups, franchises and portfolios reviewed to one method.

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Occasional plain-English notes on rates reform, drainage charging and property data. Unsubscribe whenever.

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Business Owners

Who we work with

Is your premises costing more than it should?

Owners and directors rarely have time to interrogate a rates bill, a water invoice or an insurance schedule. Portrait does it for you: we measure the premises, check every record against the result, and pursue whatever the evidence supports. If there is nothing to find, you hear that quickly and pay nothing.

The checks

Three bills, one measured answer

Business rates

Is the rateable value built on the right floor areas, classification and occupation? If not, we challenge it.

Water and drainage

Are you paying to drain surfaces that do not reach the public sewer? Overcharges are reclaimed, backdated.

Insurance

Does the policy describe the building you actually occupy? Corrections are put to the insurer mid-term.

How it feels

Built for owners without a property department

You send the bills. We do the measuring, the checking and the challenging, and report in plain terms at each stage. The commercial model is simple: for qualifying reviews there is no upfront cost and no fee unless a saving lands.

One point of contact through the whole case

Everything visible in your Landscape portal

No reduction, no fee, in writing

Project Managers

Who we work with

Measured data that keeps projects honest

Design, planning and cost control all rest on what the building actually is. Portrait gives project managers and architects a verified starting point: LiDAR-measured plans and models of the site as found, before assumptions harden into drawings, programmes and budgets.

Where it helps

Three points in a project where measured data pays

Design and feasibility

As-built plans and point clouds replace inherited drawings, so early design work starts from the real geometry.

Coordination and fit-out

Verified dimensions reduce clashes, variations and remeasures once contractors are on site.

Handover and record

The measured record survives the project: one dataset for O&M, leasing, compliance and future works.

How it runs

One survey, briefed once, used everywhere

Portrait scopes the capture around the decisions the project needs to make. Outputs arrive as CAD-ready plans, schedules and a browser-based model in Landscape that the whole team can reference without specialist software.

Scoped and quoted per project, no day-rate ambiguity

RICS-aligned measurement, traceable to the point cloud

Shared access for consultants and contractors via Landscape

Facilities Managers

Who we work with

Run buildings on evidence, not inherited drawings

Facilities managers deal with outdated plans, fragmented records and supplier-led assumptions every week. Portrait captures each site as it stands and turns the data into working outputs: maintenance-ready plans, compliance drawings, contractor briefs and charge reviews.

What you get

Facilities data that works harder

A single source of truth

Measured plans, scans and schedules in one structured record, so internal teams and contractors stop working from conflicting versions.

Compliance support

Current, accurate drawings for fire, access and safety documentation, drawn from the building as it exists.

Lower-cost decisions

Rates, drainage and insurance charges tested against measured facts through the no reduction, no fee route.

Day to day

From reactive folders to a live estate record

Every captured site sits in Landscape with its plans, schedules and case documents. When a contractor asks for dimensions or an insurer asks for construction details, the answer is a share link rather than a rummage.

Browser-based building record, no CAD seat required

Lifecycle quantities for maintenance planning

Site logistics data for safe contractor access

Asset Managers

Who we work with

Portfolio evidence for better property decisions

Asset managers, managing agents and portfolio teams carry cost and risk across many holdings at once. Portrait builds one consistent evidence layer: measured areas, verified records and reviewable findings, whether the schedule runs to three assets or three hundred.

Portfolio value

What a measured portfolio makes possible

Portfolio-wide visibility

Consistent measured data across assets, so comparisons, benchmarks and anomalies are real rather than artefacts of bad records.

Savings-led review

Rates, surface water and insurance MTA opportunities screened asset by asset under no reduction, no fee terms.

Transaction-ready data

Lettable areas, subletting proof packs and measured schedules ready when leasing or disposal moves.

Perspective for portfolios

Screen the schedule before committing to anything

Perspective runs your address list against VOA data and comparable evidence to flag which assets deserve a closer look. Fieldwork follows the data, not the other way round.

Bulk address matching and cleansing

Opportunity signals per asset, in one report

Findings comparable across the whole portfolio

Developers

Who we work with

Reduce uncertainty before it becomes cost

Developers absorb risk at every stage: acquisition, feasibility, design, fit-out, handover. Portrait establishes what is physically on site and what can be evidenced, before assumptions shape an appraisal, a specification or a programme.

Through the cycle

Evidence at the points where money moves

Before acquisition

Measured reality checks on areas, heights and site extent, so the appraisal rests on verified numbers.

Through design and delivery

As-built capture for coordination, progress verification and dispute-proof records.

At handover and beyond

Measured asset packs and digital twins that carry into leasing, management and the first rates bill.

After practical completion

The first rates bill is a developer's problem too

New and altered buildings attract new rating entries, and early entries are often wrong. Portrait checks the assessment against the measured building while the evidence is fresh, and challenges it where the record overstates.

Completion notices and new entries reviewed promptly

Drainage and insurance data set up correctly from day one

No reduction, no fee where the review qualifies

Multi Site Management

Sectors / Multi-Site Management

One portfolio view of every property cost

Franchise groups, regional operators and multi-site estates accumulate property costs location by location, each with its own billing history and local assumptions. Portrait reviews the whole schedule to one method and shows the results side by side in Landscape.

Where the money sits

What a portfolio review finds

Pattern errors

The same billing mistake repeated across a network. Found once, recovered everywhere.

Priority ranking

Perspective screens the address list first, so fieldwork goes where the data says the money is.

Comparable reporting

Site-by-site findings in one format, ready for the board pack rather than a drawer.

The sensible order

Start with the list, not the sites

Send the schedule of addresses. Bulk matching and cleansing puts it through Perspective, and the first output is a ranked view of where reviews are worth running. Nobody visits anything until the data justifies it.

Bulk address screening before any survey

No reduction, no fee per qualifying site

Estate-level totals, site-level detail

Our Clients

Our clients

Businesses that check before they pay

Portrait works for occupiers, owners and advisers across offices, industry, retail, education and the public sector. The common thread is a preference for evidence over assumption.

Client types

Who instructs Portrait

Owners and directors

Single-premises businesses wanting a straight answer on their bills.

Portfolio and asset teams

Schedules screened, reviewed and reported to one method.

Advisers and partners

Accountants and agents referring clients through the partner network.