Tidecombe Housing / BG-Demo – Demo
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Tidecombe Housing · 11 Dec 2023 11:45
Tobias Renwick demoed tenant search, overdue repairs and arrears lists on Tidecombe's Salesforce, Zendesk and Xero. Nightly refresh was accepted. Tom Ashdown will send a Growth proposal for about 20 users.
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What this says
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026Tobias Renwick demoed tenant search, overdue repairs and arrears lists on Tidecombe's Salesforce, Zendesk and Xero. Nightly refresh was accepted. Tom Ashdown will send a Growth proposal for about 20 users.
What happened: Tobias Renwick, BG-Demo's CTO, showed tenant search and natural language questions. A query for repairs open over 60 days returned six tenants, and Natasha Pryor said it would flag risk straight away.
Customer view: Ravi Riley said nightly refresh is fine, as the team is not looking for tick-by-tick updates. Yasmin Openshaw found the repair status view useful.
Commercial: Tom Ashdown proposed the Growth tier with about 20 users, three connectors and go-live in eight weeks. Natasha agreed to receive the proposal.
Watch: The evidence does not show a price quoted on this call, or who signs.
Themes
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026Who was there
BG-Demo
Them
Follow-up
Next steps
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Tom Ashdown to send the proposal with scope and pricing by the end of the week.
Risks
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Pricing has not been shown yet, so the proposal may meet resistance.
- Nightly refresh was accepted, but any later need for real-time data would be a gap.
Opportunities
As at Fri 9 Oct 2026- Growth tier subscription for about 20 users with three connectors and an eight week implementation.
- Arrears and overdue repair lists give housing and finance teams concrete use cases to adopt.
Transcript
Tom AshdownHi everyone. Thanks for joining. We've got Tobias here: he's our CTO, he'll walk you through the brain on your Salesforce, Zendesk and Xero. Natasha, good to see you again. Ravi and Yasmin, welcome. Tobias, over to you.
Tobias RenwickThanks, Tom. Right, so what you're looking at is your data unified. I'm going to search for a tenant, let me find a real example from your Salesforce. Here's someone. Search result pulls their contact record, their open repair tickets from Zendesk, and their rent history from Xero, all here.
Ravi RileySo if someone calls asking about their balance, you'd see that straightaway?- Tobias RenwickExactly. No ring-around, no digging. Ravi, you're on the admin side, you could answer that call. Yasmin, if you're in housing and a tenant comes to you asking about their repairs, same thing: you search their name, you see what they've reported and where it's at.
Yasmin OpenshawThat's quite useful, actually. Do you see the status of repairs too, like whether it's been assigned?- Tobias RenwickYep. This one's assigned and in progress. You can see the date it was logged, the date assigned, any notes. If you need to dig deeper you click through to Zendesk, but you've got the headline here.
Natasha PryorCan you pull a list of things? Like all tenants with overdue repairs or arrears over a certain amount?- Tobias RenwickAbsolutely. Let me show you. You can ask a question in natural language...'show me all tenants with unresolved repairs over 60 days old', and the brain finds them.
- Tobias RenwickHere you go. Six tenants with repairs open more than 60 days. You can see the repair date, today's date, the status. You can use this to chase contractors, or follow up with tenants.
- Natasha PryorThat would flag risk straight away.
- Tobias RenwickTo be precise, yes. You're identifying properties where there's a service issue before they call you complaining.
- Ravi RileyWhat about arrears? Can you do the same thing?
- Tobias RenwickSure. 'Show me all tenants with arrears over five hundred.' Same idea. Here's the list, sorted by balance. You can see who owes, how much, how long it's been outstanding. You could use this to prioritize collection calls.
- Yasmin OpenshawIs that in real time or does it lag?
- Tobias RenwickIt refreshes nightly. Complete refresh, in by seven in the morning. So if someone pays rent at three in the afternoon you see the update the next morning.
- Ravi RileyThat's fine for us. We're not looking for tick-by-tick updates.
- Tobias RenwickGood. Because nightly is much cleaner operationally. Less moving parts, less chance of something getting stale or out of sync.
- Tom AshdownAny other questions for Tobias?
- Natasha PryorI think that's good. Just, how would my team access this? Phones or what?
- Tobias RenwickWeb browser. They log in, search or ask a question, get an answer. Mobile-friendly too if they're out on a property visit and want to look something up.
- Natasha PryorNice. Tom, what's next?
- Tom AshdownI'll put together a proposal with scope and pricing. We'd be looking at our Growth tier for you: about 20 users, we'd set up the three connectors and get you live in eight weeks. Once you've had a look at that we can talk about next steps. Sound okay?
- Natasha PryorYeah, let's do it.
- Tom AshdownBrilliant. I'll get that proposal over by end of week. Cheers, everyone.