Buyers agents run two businesses at once: winning clients, and doing the research that earns the fee. Alvo is built for both sides: qualified client flow through Foleo, and an in-house intelligence capability that does your deal research at machine speed while your judgement stays the product.
Suburb analysis and due diligence at 10pm. Property reports that take four hours to build and get skimmed in four minutes. Off-market opportunities that need an answer today, not after the weekend's research. And a pipeline that swings between famine and feast depending on how much content you posted last month.
You cannot take on more clients without cloning yourself, and hiring an analyst doubles your cost base before it doubles your capacity. That is the structural trap of a business whose product is trust and time.
Alvo works on both sides of it at once: the client flow that fills your pipeline, and the research capability that lets you serve more clients without diluting the judgement they pay you for.
Foleo (foleo.au) matches property buyers with vetted buyers agents. Buyers complete a structured brief covering location, budget, strategy and timeline; Foleo translates it into a buyer archetype and hand-matches them with two to four agents. The leads arrive with intent, strategy and budget already stated.
Full disclosure, because it matters in this industry: Foleo is a venture Alvo built and operates. We are not recommending someone else's platform, we are running one. Two things follow from that. First, we understand buyer demand data in a way no generalist consultant can. Second, and importantly, working with Alvo does not buy placement on Foleo. Foleo's agent vetting is a separate process and stays that way. That separation is what keeps Foleo's matches worth receiving. The same boundary applies to your data: the research capability we build is yours, inside your systems, and nothing from your workflows or client files feeds Foleo or any other agency.
What Alvo brings to the demand side of your agency is the operating knowledge behind that platform: how buyer briefs convert, where enquiry quality comes from, and how to build a client pipeline that does not depend on last month's content output.
The bigger opportunity is inside your research workflow. Alvo builds buyers agencies an in-house research and analysis capability: automated intelligence that supports deal selection instead of consuming your nights. Built as your capability, in your business, not a subscription that makes you look like every other agency using the same tool.
Ranked and refreshed automatically, so the shortlist conversation starts from evidence rather than a weekend of tab-hopping across portals and data platforms.
Comparable sales, yield analysis, planning flags and the routine checks, pulled together on demand. You verify and judge. The machine assembles.
Produced as first drafts for you to verify and sign, not robot output your clients can smell. The four-hour report becomes a forty-minute review.
Speed of evaluation is the whole advantage in off-market. When an agent contact calls with something quiet, you answer with analysis while the window is still open.
More clients serviced per operator without hiring. Faster, more defensible recommendations. Reports that justify your fee instead of merely documenting it. And a growth path that does not depend on cloning the founder. Your judgement stays the product: the machine does the assembly, you do the calls.
Send one recent property report and we'll come back with a working example of what an automated first draft of the same report looks like, built from your structure. You'll know within a day whether this is real.
Send a report ›The operational layer, not the client-facing one, is where the hours leak. The same is true on the buy side.
Read article ›A working session on what AI, tech and data actually change across sourcing, due diligence, reporting and client acquisition for a buyers agency, and which moves are worth making first.
A structured audit of your research workflow, tech stack and client pipeline, sized for boutique agencies. A ranked list of what to automate first, with the hours and dollars attached. Priced at ~$5,000, subject to scope.
Ongoing advisory as you scale past the founder. A consistent operator perspective on tooling, workflow and demand, without hiring a head of anything.
Your in-house deal-selection intelligence, built: suburb screening, due diligence packs, comps and report drafting inside your systems and your brand. The same build capability behind Foleo.
The report took four hours. The client read it for four minutes. Talk to Alvo about growing both sides of your agency.
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