The Intelligence Engine
Your AI practice engine that turns messy inputs into structured, professional outputs — without a single keystroke.
QuickNote
WhatsApp message, email, voicemail transcript — anything. Just paste it in.
Client name, address, project type — automatically identified and structured.
Automatically suggests fees and drafts a professional letter. Review, tweak, send.
60 minutes of admin work. Done in 60 seconds.
Fee Adviser
GROUT analyses your enquiry against your Grout Library and suggests a fee range with a Low / Medium / High confidence rating.
Calculates estimated hours at your billable rate. Shows 'profitable hours' — the max hours before you lose money on this job.
Shows your fee as a percentage of estimated build cost — industry benchmarking built in.
"For a £100k extension, a £3,000 fee is 3% of build cost — GROUT makes that case for you automatically."
Grout Library
Your own quotations, contracts, and specs. This is GROUT's primary reference — it learns your tone, your pricing, your standards.
Planning fee schedules, building regs guidance, and industry standards — maintained centrally by PLANIT and always up to date.
The more you feed it, the smarter it gets.
Milestone Detection
GROUT detects Planning Approved, Completion, and other project milestones — and automatically prompts professional social posts tailored for LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
Professional tone
Delighted to announce planning approval for our heritage extension project in Durham. This careful restoration balances contemporary design with the character of the existing Victorian terrace. Now moving into detailed design and Building Regulations.
Visual & engaging
✨ Planning permission secured for this stunning heritage extension in Durham! Another one moving to site soon. Swipe to see the before & after CGIs → #architecture #planningapproval #durham #heritagearchitecture
Conversational
Great news! 🎉 Planning permission has been granted for our latest project — a beautiful heritage extension in Durham. Really proud of this one. The client's been brilliant to work with and we can't wait to see it built!
Each trigger produces a Grout-drafted post and a suggested posting window: post in the next 48 hours while this topic is peaking.
The intelligence flywheel that compounds with every project. GROUT doesn't just store your data — it learns from it, surfaces patterns you'd never spot, and turns your entire project history into a competitive advantage.
There's a difference between a social media manager who reads last month's analytics report — and one who woke up this morning, checked what's trending in built environment, noticed a competitor just posted something that flopped, spotted that planning fee changes are in the news, and is sitting at your desk with three ready-to-go hooks before you've had your coffee. That's Grout Intel.
10x
Faster fee decisions
100%
Of your data, working for you
24/7
Always learning, always ready
GROUT spots trends across your entire project history — which project types are most profitable, where scope creep hits hardest, and which clients pay on time. Insights that took years of experience now surface automatically.
"Your loft conversions average 22% higher margins than extensions — consider adjusting your marketing."
Every quotation you send teaches GROUT more about your pricing. Over time, it builds a bespoke fee model calibrated to your practice — not industry averages. Your fees. Your market. Your data.
"Based on 47 similar projects, I'd recommend £4,200–£4,800 for this scope. Your win rate at this range is 78%."
Before you even accept a job, GROUT cross-references the enquiry against your historical data and flags potential issues — underquoting risk, scope ambiguity, or clients with a history of slow payments.
"⚠️ This scope is 35% larger than similar jobs you've quoted at this fee. Consider reviewing."
Every project completed, every fee sent, every document uploaded makes GROUT sharper. Early adopters don't just get a tool — they get a system trained on their specific practice that gets more valuable every single week.
Month 1: suggestions. Month 6: predictions. Month 12: an unfair advantage.
Three content ideas. Waiting for you. Every morning.
Every 24 hours, Grout runs a built environment research sweep — planning news, building regs updates, property market data, architecture trends, government policy announcements. It identifies which topics are gaining momentum — not ones that already peaked. When you open your social tab, Grout isn't waiting to be asked. It's already holding three specific, timely content ideas ranked by urgency and engagement potential.
Why now
Government consultation closes in 6 days
Suggested hook
"The planning fee increase nobody warned small practices about — here's what changes from April"
Why now
New RIBA guidance published yesterday
Suggested hook
"Your clients will start asking about embodied carbon this year — here's what you need to know"
Why now
PD rights expansion confirmed in King's Speech
Suggested hook
"Permitted Development just changed everything for loft conversions — 3 things your clients need to hear now"
Grout learns your sector and region. A structural engineer in Manchester sees different opportunities than an interior designer in Bristol.
See exactly where you're winning — and where they're pulling ahead.
Add competitor social profiles in Workspace Settings. Grout scrapes publicly visible posts on the same schedule as your own profiles. It analyses post frequency, engagement rates, topic mix, and format preferences — then surfaces a Competitor Intelligence Report for each one.
Posts this month
They're ahead8
24
Avg engagement
You're winning47
31
Top topic
Planning
Extensions
Best format
You're winningBefore/After
Text only
"Your competitor posted about PD extensions yesterday and got 47 likes. Your last post on the same topic got 89. You're outperforming them here — but they post 3× more frequently. Want Grout to draft three posts this week to close the gap?"
Scraping is of publicly visible content only. No login required.
Pre-built into Grout: planning fee reset cycles, building regs update windows, RIBA award seasons, Budget statement timing, Autumn Statement, local election cycles, school holiday quiet periods. Add your own triggers too — "Remind me 2 weeks before my PI insurance renewal to post about professional indemnity." When external events spike — a planning controversy, a high-profile refusal, a celebrity home extension in the press — Grout flags it as a jump-on opportunity with a countdown.
The longer you use Grout, the smarter it gets.
Every post you publish. Every trend it surfaces. Every competitor move it tracks. Every piece of data Grout accumulates sharpens its understanding of your voice, your audience, and your market. This isn't a tool you use once. It's an intelligence layer that compounds. Six months in, Grout isn't just suggesting content — it's anticipating your next move before you've thought of it.
Per-Job Search
When the client says you never warned them about the delay — open TILE, search it in 10 seconds, and show them every time you did.
Natural language search scoped to a single job. GROUT returns the answer with date, source, and a direct link to the comms entry.
Follow-up sent re: outstanding invoice #1042
Chased for sign-off on revised planning drawings
Called client — no answer. Left voicemail regarding fee schedule.
While GROUT thinks, it cycles through:
— because this was built by someone who understands your world.
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