Kognitive builds value into your homes!
Kognitive aims to be a pioneer of Digital Building Logbooks that brings data transparency and full data availability to a broad range of market players, including property owners, tenants, investors, financial institutions and public administrations.
How do you use our services to upgrade your homes?
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Home records in one place
✓ We gather and pre-fill all the available public data on your property to make it easier for you
✓ Only enter your property data, records and certificates to meet BASPI Data Standard, making your property ready for sale at any time.
✓ Sign up for an efficiency survey of your property
✓ Join the KognitiveHome local Community
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How do I improve the value of my home
✓ Your current EPC / PAS 2030/ NABERS indicates the current efficiency
✓ We provide a comparison of your home to the regulatory requirements and other homes in your neighbourhoods
✓ The EPC provides the standard retrofit suggestion and the expected cost
✓ We offer you a bespoke retrofit plan based on our partners’ expertise in engineering, architecture and supply chain management.
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Renovation Roadmap
✓ With our detailed retrofit plan as the destination, you can decide which steps on the roadmap to take first, given your current financial and family situations
✓ Our innovation page informs you of the best ways to improve your property with the latest BRE technology and innovations for future-proof upgrade
✓ Plot your trajectory to net zero using Decarbonomics to visualize your gains and monitor your progress
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Affording the renovations
✓ We facilitate Green Mortgage ‘extensions’/ Green Bonds where lenders are encouraged to offer additional borrowing to existing customers to improve the energy performance
✓ Links to local authorities will evaluate if you are eligible for property improvement grants and subsidies
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Group discounts and access to approved contractors
✓ Join the KognitiveHome community to create or join a group discount in your area with other similar renovation projects
✓ Find out about local news and events in your area
✓ To be better informed about your local housing market movement through our free market analysis
The Golden Thread Digital Logbook
The Kognitive data repository will help property owners / social housing landlords understand their roles and legal duties as set out in the Building Safety Act 2022 and other industry standards such as BREEM, RICS and PAS2035/2038.
Golden Thread of Information - keep, update, and store digital information throughout the lifecycle of the building in the most secure and trusted platform!
Data and retrofitting problems Kognitive solves
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Lack of knowledge about housing stock.
The estimated cost of retrofitting 15 million homes by 2030 to band C is £124 billion.
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Current legislation and funding assistance offer an insufficient incentive to retrofit.
No carbon footprint audit validation.
No plan of how to hit 2050 Net Zero target.
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No clear platform for Green Renovation or innovations.
No go-to places to obtain valid information.
No credible source of retrofitting guidance
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No financial products for Greeen mortgage extension.
Lack of carbon credit trading schemes.
No clear grants, cash back and other schemes to reduce upfront cost.
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Poor links to local authorities and housing associations.
No access to group volume discounts.
Lack of local awareness of examplary retrofitting projects.
Kogntive Property Platform Building
Our Strategic Partners
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"Kognitive is the ideal partner to bring our green technologies into the homes of millions rapidly to meet our climate change goals."
someone at Atkins
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"We are committed to work closely with Kogntive together to bring the best user experience to the users of the platform. We are also excited to implement AR/VR technology with Kognitive."
someone at Sovtech
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"Kognitive is the catalyst the residential real estate sector needs to meaningfully accelerate energy efficiency retrofit. "
Andrew Knight
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"Kogntive values data security and management as much as we do. We will use our expertise and experience to ensure any data on Kognitive is safe and accessible."
someon at ReCheck
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"We work with Kognitive to apply our most tested energy and housing knowledge at a large scale, so that more people can benefit from the technological progresses."
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"Kognitive is the disruptive innovation that could push the residential real estate sector to the next chapter of Proptech."
someone at FIABCI
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"Bre's expertise in testing and implementing new technologies and building energy efficiency standards joins Kognitive to deliver positive changes to the entire society."
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Kevin O'Grady
CO-FOUNDER/CEO
Kevin experience includes management of the full suite of commercial activities, he worked on Digital passports pilot for HS2. Kevin is a Board member of FIBREE, which is the leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology.
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Qizhou (Leo) Xiong
CO-FOUNDER/CTO
Qizhou is an economist and data scientist specializing in residential real estate and prop tech. Extensive experience analyzing big data from the UK, Germany and the USA. Qizhou used to work for Said Business School, University of Oxford, as a research fellow for the Future of Real Estate Initiative. He worked in academia for a decade before joining the industry.
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Nick Robb
CO-FOUNDER/CFO
Nick is a senior policy advisor to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in the UK with a background in construction finance and business strategy. Nick’s link to the finance and energy market has helped shape the platform to prove a holistic center for retrofit knowledge.