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Cross-Reference Engine
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Slide 5 / Cross-reference demo

The patterns big systems can't see,
because no one wires them together.

Most dashboards show you one source at a time. We pull yours apart, lay them next to each other, and look for the bits that only make sense together. Here's what that looks like for a 25-property letting agent.

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Barclay & Holt Lettings · Sheffield
25 properties under management · 4 staff · 7 years trading · sample anonymised
Units25
Tenancies23
Avg rent£975
Arrears£4.2k
Property Management
Arthur Online · nightly sync
FLT-08BRent received02 May
FLT-12ATenancy renewed28 Apr
HOU-04Boiler service due14 May
FLT-19CArrears £2,150Day 27
Tenant Messages
Inbox + WhatsApp · sentiment scored
23:14"Heating not coming on"-0.71
19:02"All sorted, thanks Sarah"+0.82
08:41"When is inspection?"+0.04
21:30"Mould in bathroom again"-0.65
Local Weather
Met Office API · Sheffield S1-S35
YestHeavy rain · 14°C52mm
TodayShowers · 12°C18mm
TmrwCold snap · 2°CFrost
+3dClear · 8°C0mm
Cross-Reference Engine
6 sources · 18,402 rows joined this week
Live
1
Tenant msgs × Weather × Maintenance jobs
Tenants who message about heating between 21:00 and 24:00 on a night when the forecast drops below 4°C raise a follow-up complaint within 48 hours 83.6% of the time, unless you call them back the same evening, which collapses repeat tickets to 11.2%.
Confidence
91%
2
Property mgmt × Stripe payments × Reviews / NPS
Tenants whose rent lands 3+ days early in their first three months also leave a 5★ Google review 4.7× more often than the portfolio average, and renew at +31.4%. They are your single best referral source, and nobody has ever asked them.
Confidence
87%
3
Weather × Maintenance jobs × Boiler service log
9 of your 25 boilers are flagged: each one threw a fault within 72 hours of the first sub-3°C night last winter, and none have been serviced since. Pre-empting them in May saves an estimated £2,840 in callouts and 1 likely vacancy.
Confidence
78%
6
Sources joined
18,402
Rows this week
14
Patterns surfaced
£12.3k
Est. annual upside
🔧
Maintenance Jobs
Fixflo · contractor diary
#4421Boiler · HOU-04Open 6d
#4418Leak · FLT-12AClosed
#4412Damp · FLT-08BOpen 2d
#4405Locks · HOU-07Closed
Reviews & NPS
Google + post-visit SMS
L. Patel"Best agent in S6"5★
M. Carr"Took 4 days to reply"2★
NPSPromoters 64%last 90d
A. Reid"Sarah is brilliant"5★
£
Stripe Payments
Rent + deposit + fee timing
28 Apr£975 · FLT-08B-3d
01 May£1,150 · HOU-04on day
04 May£850 · FLT-19C+3d
27 Apr£1,400 · HOU-02-4d

These patterns are invisible to single-source dashboards.

Your property software sees the rent. Your inbox sees the complaint. Your weather app sees the cold front. Each one is right about its own piece, and blind to the only thing that matters: how they connect.

×
Property software alone
"FLT-19C is 3 days late this month."
×
Inbox alone
"5 heating messages came in last night."
Cross-referenced
"Cold snap + late-night complaints → 9 boilers about to fail. Service them in May."
Big systems try to be everything. I'd rather ask what you've actually got, mash it together properly, and find the bit nobody's looking at. That bit is usually worth a lot of money.
Jamie Button · Simply Button Solutions

Want to see what your sources would surface?

30-minute call. Bring a list of the tools you use. I'll tell you which combinations would pay back the fastest.

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