TILE

What TILE does

TILE is a UK-built SaaS practice management platform operated by PLANIT Innovations UK Ltd (Company No. 17071896), targeting architecture and planning professionals across six verticals: Architecture, Interior Design, Planning Consultancy, Structural Engineering, Property Development, and Building Surveying. The platform runs practices end-to-end — site constraint checking from a UK postcode, planning application tracking, document drafting, fee quoting, invoicing, and time tracking — using profession-specific pipelines and SOP checklists rather than a generic kanban. Its sole named external user is 81 North, the founder's working architecture practice in Darlington; the registered office is in London.

The product is built as a browser-based application on Supabase infrastructure hosted in the UK/EEA, with the "Grout" AI engine powered by Anthropic's API under a no-training agreement. Grout handles enquiry parsing, drafting of regulated documents (Heritage Statements, Design & Access Statements, Planning Statements, Flood Risk Assessments, Party Wall notices), fee suggestions, scheduling, and social media content generation, with each practice's own documents stored in the Grout Library to improve outputs over time. Live integrations with Historic England, the Environment Agency, and Planning.Data.gov.uk feed the postcode-based constraint checker, and monitoring of Idox Public Access portals covers an estimated 60-70% of UK councils. A BRICKS sub-brand (app.bricksbytile.co.uk) and an emerging ProConnect tier (Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, QuickFile) extend the portfolio.

TILE operates a direct-to-customer subscription model via Stripe, using a per-seat price ladder (£24.99 to £79 per user per month) with lifetime price-lock at the tier of signup and a 14-day free trial requiring no credit card. The product is distributed product-led via an interactive demo and free constraint-check tool (check.gettile.co.uk), with a sales-led motion for larger practices requiring ProConnect. The company is privately held, founder-operated by Anthony Boyce, with 1-10 employees, no disclosed institutional funding, UK GDPR/ICO compliance, and an active product roadmap (Client Dashboard, Brochure Fee Proposals, TILE for Builders and Homeowners).

Name

TILE

Legal name

PLANIT Innovations UK Ltd

Website

https://gettile.co.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

TILE by PLANIT Innovations is a UK SaaS practice management platform for architecture and planning professionals, offering pipelines, planning constraint checking, AI-assisted document drafting, fee quoting, and invoicing across six built-environment verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Darlington

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Per-user per-month subscription with seat-ladder pricing. Price locked at signup tier for lifetime. Includes all features and future updates on all tiers. Additional add-on modules included free for Founders tier subscribers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TILE is a cloud-based SaaS practice management platform for UK architecture and planning practices. It delivers end-to-end job management through profession-specific pipelines covering architecture, interior design, planning consultancy, structural engineering, property development, and building surveying. Native features include a postcode-based constraint checker wired to live UK government planning data, a planning application tracker that monitors Idox council portals, AI-powered drafting of Heritage/Design & Access/Planning Statements and Party Wall notices via the Grout engine, plus fee quoting, invoicing, time tracking by RIBA stage, and AI-generated social media content.

Product overview

TILE is a single, unified practice management platform for UK architecture and planning practices, built and operated by PLANIT Innovations UK Ltd. The core product is TILE itself, which serves as the main platform providing job management, constraint checking, planning tracking, and billing. Within TILE, the AI engine 'Grout' powers intelligent features including document drafting, email intelligence, and social content generation. The platform is offered in tiers (Starter, Standard, Pro, Pro Connect) with escalating features, plus a seat-ladder pricing model. Additional products include BRICKS (separate sign-in), and planned offerings for builders/homeowners. ProConnect adds accounting integrations (Xero, Sage, QuickBooks) as an add-on module.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BRICKS: A related practice management product accessible at app.bricksbytile.co.uk, serving as a companion or separate offering within the TILE/PLANIT ecosystem.
• GROUT
• Project OS

Products and services

• TILE Cloud-based SaaS practice management platform for UK architecture and planning practices. Runs practices end-to-end through profession-specific pipelines covering architecture, interior design, planning consultancy, structural engineering, property development, and building surveying. Includes postcode-based constraint checking, planning application tracking across UK council portals, AI document drafting via Grout, fee quoting and invoicing, time tracking by RIBA stage, and AI-generated social content. Sold via per-seat subscription with tiered pricing (Founders £24.99, Early £35.99, Launch £49, Standard £79 per user/month, all features included on every tier).
• BRICKS Separate practice management product operated as a sub-brand within the TILE/PLANIT ecosystem, with its own sign-in at app.bricksbytile.co.uk. Described as a wholly owned subsidiary of TILE and a related practice management offering for built environment professionals.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reclaim 3 hours per week on fee quotes
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability9 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Historic EnglandcoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides live listed building status, heritage designations, and conservation area data integrated into TILE's constraint checker for any UK postcode.
• Environment AgencycoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides live flood zone data integrated into TILE's constraint checker for any UK postcode.
• Planning.Data.gov.ukcoreTechnology or IntegrationUK government planning data source providing Article 4 directions, TPOs, SSSIs and other planning constraints integrated into constraint checker.
• AnthropiccoreTechnology or IntegrationAI provider powering the Grout AI engine. No-training agreement ensures customer prompt data is not used for model training. Grout processes enquiries, drafts documents, and generates content.
• SupabasecoreTechnology or IntegrationDatabase infrastructure hosting TILE data in EEA/UK. Encrypted storage with data processing agreement in place under UK GDPR Article 28.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationPayment processor handling all subscription billing. PCI-DSS compliant. No card details stored by TILE. Powers subscription management including upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations.
• Idox Public AccesscoreTechnology or IntegrationPlanning portal system (covering approximately 60-70% of UK councils including Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, Westminster, most metropolitans) that TILE monitors for planning application status changes.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Monograph: Monograph is practice operations software for architecture firms, focused on project performance, time tracking, and financial dashboards — a direct conceptual match to TILE's Fees, Invoicing and Time Tracking and Dashboard & Insights modules, though currently US-focused.
• Cosential: Cosential provides CRM and project information management for AEC and professional services firms, with a focus on pursuit, pipeline, and project tracking. It intersects TILE's pipeline and planning-tracking functionality for architecture and engineering practices.

Direct peers

• PracticePanther: PracticePanther is legal practice management with matter pipelines, time/billing, and document automation. It mirrors TILE's architecture of pipelines + automation + billing, but for law firms — useful as a same-shape, different-vertical benchmark.
• Newforma: Newforma is project information management for architecture, engineering, and construction firms, focused on email/communications, document management, and project workflows. It overlaps directly with TILE's document management, comms logging, and action extraction features for the same AEC buyer.
• Karbon: Karbon is practice management workflow software for accounting and bookkeeping firms — addressing the same pain points (email intake, project pipelines, time/billing, client communication) for a different professional services vertical. Highly comparable on PLG methodology and SaaS-shape, and a clear analogue for TILE's positioning in UK AEC.
• Clio: Clio is leading cloud practice management for legal professionals, with intake-to-invoice workflows, document automation, and integrations. It is the canonical vertical SaaS reference point for "practice management for a regulated profession" — the conceptual cousin of TILE for the AEC/planning sector.
• BQE Core: BQE Core (formerly BQE Software) is practice management software purpose-built for architecture, engineering, and other professional services firms — covering time tracking, billing, project management, and reporting. It targets the exact same UK/US architecture practice workflows as TILE, making it the closest direct competitor despite being a broader suite.
• Smokeball: Smokeball is legal practice management with strong document automation and matter workflows, often cited alongside PracticePanther. Same business-model class as TILE — vertical SaaS for a regulated professional services workflow — but serving solicitors.

Broad incumbents

• Procore: Procore is the dominant construction project management platform and increasingly encroaches upstream into pre-construction and design coordination. While not an architecture-practice tool per se, it overlaps with TILE's planning, document, and project tracking workflows for design firms that hand off into construction.
• Deltek (ArchiOffice): Deltek owns ArchiOffice, a long-standing practice management suite for architects, and offers broader professional services automation. It is the entrenched incumbent in architecture practice management and competes with TILE for the same accounts, especially at mid-market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 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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