What 2BuildUK does

2BuildUK Ltd is a privately held, owner-managed UK business — founded circa 2018 by Graeme Pedlar and headquartered at 17 Alford Road, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire — that supplies data and lead generation services to the UK construction industry. The company serves primarily small and micro construction businesses (builders, contractors, specialist trades, and a secondary segment of market researchers, manufacturers, and consultancies), aggregating publicly available planning application data from every Local Planning Authority in England, Scotland, and Wales, and layering on a B2B construction-industry contact database covering over 80 trades and professions with up to 16 decision-maker contacts per site.

The core product set is organised around five paid offerings: Planning Leads (curated monthly LPA lists delivered as spreadsheets from £10/LPA/month, or £15 for a targeted project list); Building Project Introductions (white-label appointment setting and lead qualification, from £30/month); the Construction & Contractors Directory (from £70/1,000 records) and Construction Decision Maker Database (from £200/1,000 records) for B2B marketing campaigns; and the Data Appending Service (free audit, paid enrichment across email, phone, SIC, job title, turnover, and software/hardware usage). A sixth product, Architect Connect, provides proactive telephone and email outreach to architectural practices to surface tender opportunities, and a managed monthly direct-mail campaign (£95/month for 50 posted projects) extends the offering into full-service marketing execution. All underlying data is GDPR-compliant with TPS/CTPS/MPS suppression built in, and the curated dataset is asserted as 2BuildUK copyright under the UK Open Government Licence framework.

The business model mixes recurring subscription revenue (planning lists, building project introductions, mailshots) with one-off data-licensing revenue (contractor and decision-maker databases) and project-based professional services (appointment setting, data appending, Architect Connect). Distribution is dual-mode: a self-serve online storefront for subscriptions and database purchases, and a consultative owner-led sales motion in which Graeme engages prospects via Zoom or telephone to scope bespoke packages. The free Local Planning Authority directory on the website functions as a top-of-funnel SEO asset to convert organic search traffic into paid customers. Pricing is bespoke by default with a stated one-year minimum supply term, and no external funding, enterprise customers, or scaling signals are disclosed in the source material.

Name

2BuildUK

Legal name

2BuildUK Ltd

Website

https://2builduk.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

2BuildUK Ltd is a UK-based, owner-managed data and lead generation provider serving the construction industry, offering curated planning application lists, B2B construction databases, and white-label appointment-setting services to small and micro building firms across the UK.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Lead Generation Services

NAICS

Directory and Mailing List Publishers (51314), Direct Mail Advertising (54186)

akta.pro primary industry

Marketing Database & Contact Data Providers (B2B/B2C Lists) (BPAFAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

B2B Demand Generation & Lead Nurture Agencies (BPAFAKAA)

Keywords

• Construction lead generation
• Planning application data
• Construction database
• Building project introductions
• Data appending services

Headquarters

HQ city

West Bridgford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Planning Lead Subscriptions: Recurring monthly subscription revenue from supplying targeted planning application lists per Local Planning Authority (£10/month all applications, £15/month targeted project list).
2. Construction Database Sales: One-off data licensing/sale of B2B construction contact lists to clients for marketing campaigns; from £70 per 1000 records for the Contractors Directory and from £200 per 1000 records for the Decision Maker Database.
3. Building Project Introductions / Sales Lead Generation: Professional services revenue from white-label appointment setting and lead qualification for construction clients, on a bespoke pricing basis (starting from £30/month per planning authority subscription on related product schema).
4. Data Appending Services: Service-based revenue from filling customer prospect databases with missing contact and firmographic data (free audit, paid appending service).
5. Managed Mailshot Campaigns: Special-offer bundled service delivering 50 projects of interest mailed monthly for £95 each, including planning data, postage, full colour printing, copywriting, envelopes, and paper.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

2BuildUK curates and supplies UK-wide planning application data and B2B construction contact databases (covering 80+ trades and up to 16 decision-makers per site) on a subscription or one-off data-licensing basis. The company also acts as a white-label sales and marketing agency for construction firms, generating qualified building-project introductions, managed direct-mail campaigns, and Architect outreach on behalf of clients. It supplements its data assets with a data-appending service that enriches customer prospect databases with missing firmographic and contact information.

Product overview

2BuildUK operates a multi-product data and lead-generation platform for the UK construction industry rather than a single unified product. The portfolio is organised around a Planning Leads data core (curated UK Local Planning Authority lists) that feeds a Building Project Introductions service (white-label sales appointments for builders) and a Construction Database offering (B2B company and decision-maker marketing lists). Two complementary modules extend the platform: Data Appending (to enrich existing customer databases) and Architect Connect (proactive outreach to architectural practices for tender opportunities). A free LPA-link directory resource sits alongside as a top-of-funnel marketing asset. All services are bespoke-tailored to each client and operate on a minimum 12-month supply basis, with prices ranging from £10/month per LPA for raw planning data up to £200/1,000 records for enriched decision-maker databases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Planning Leads (Planning Application Sales Leads)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 4 years of customer retention (Malcolm Burton)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ihasco: ihasco supplies B2B sales leads, email lists and telemarketing/appointment-setting services to UK companies across multiple verticals, including construction-adjacent industries. It is comparable to 2BuildUK as a UK-based data-and-appointment-generation provider, though not exclusively focused on construction.
• Glenigan: Glenigan is the UK market leader in construction project sales leads and project intelligence, selling aggregated UK planning and construction project data to builders, contractors and suppliers. It is the most direct competitor to 2BuildUK's planning-lead and decision-maker database offerings, with substantially broader data coverage and enterprise-scale delivery.
• Barbour ABI: Barbour ABI provides UK construction intelligence, project leads and built-environment data to contractors, consultants and suppliers. Like 2BuildUK, it aggregates planning and construction project information for B2B sales and marketing use, but operates at a far larger enterprise scale with broader analytics products.

Broad incumbents

• Dodge Construction Network: Dodge (Construction.com) is a major North American construction project intelligence platform providing project leads, bidding opportunities and market analytics. It is comparable to 2BuildUK as a planning/project-data subscription business but operates at much greater scale and in different geographies.
• HubSpot: HubSpot is a broad CRM and marketing-automation platform that includes contact databases, lead capture and sales-appointment tools used by SMBs including construction firms. It competes with the data-monetisation and appointment-setting layers of 2BuildUK's stack but as a horizontal platform rather than a construction-vertical specialist.
• Constructionline: Constructionline maintains the UK's largest pre-qualification database of construction contractors and consultants, serving as both a compliance gateway and a directory of suppliers. It overlaps with 2BuildUK's contractor database business but is primarily a pre-qualification platform rather than a sales-lead generator.
• Data.com (Salesforce) / Apollo.io: Apollo.io and similar B2B contact data platforms provide large decision-maker databases and sales-engagement tooling to sales teams. They overlap with 2BuildUK's Construction Decision Maker Database and data-appending service but operate as horizontal platforms rather than construction-vertical specialists.

Others

• Loop Horizon (Appointmentsetter / B2B telemarketing agencies): Various UK-based B2B telemarketing and appointment-setting agencies (e.g., Pearl Lemon Leads, B2B Sales Agency) provide outsourced SDR services comparable to 2BuildUK's Building Project Introductions offering. They are adjacent service competitors rather than data-aggregation peers, but compete for the same white-label appointment-setting budget.

Emerging players

• Building Radar: Building Radar uses AI to identify new construction projects globally and delivers qualified sales leads to construction product suppliers. It competes in the same construction-lead-generation category as 2BuildUK but pursues a global, AI-driven, SaaS model rather than a UK-focused manual data curation approach.

Regional players

• Planning Portal: Planning Portal is the UK government's online planning-application service providing public access to planning data for England and Wales. While 2BuildUK aggregates LPA data into commercial products, Planning Portal is the upstream free source; both operate in UK planning-data infrastructure and serve overlapping end users.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ukconstructionmarkets
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/2builduk

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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