Brokerages
More enquiries are useful when they lead to worthwhile conversations and progress towards a deal. Agency Network Solutions helps establish whether your brokerage needs better visibility, earlier qualification or less manual follow-up, then assesses which specialist agency could help. The assessment and introduction are free to your firm.
What is holding progress back?
We turn the clearest constraint into an agency brief.The decision
An enquiry total cannot show you how much broker time was spent establishing a poor fit, or why a promising deal stalled after the first conversation. Before buying more traffic, trace what happens to an enquiry. If suitable prospects are scarce, acquisition may be the issue. If they arrive but cannot progress, the more useful brief may concern qualification or document handling.
How we help
This sequence describes the questions to investigate. It is not a promised software system.
Which services the site explains, where enquiries come from and what information is missing at entry.
Which information helps route an enquiry and which judgements must remain with a broker.
How requests are issued, how completion is recorded and when a person needs to intervene.
Which delays sit inside the brokerage's process and which depend on clients, counterparties or other organisations.
Where Financial Conduct Authority requirements apply, the brief must reflect them. The requirements of a business sale and a regulated mortgage or insurance enquiry should not be treated as interchangeable.
Why use a specialist
Better qualification may reduce time spent on unsuitable enquiries. Clear document requests may help viable cases progress. Neither removes the need for professional judgement or guarantees completion. The useful proposal identifies a specific delay, a baseline and how the work will be assessed.
If the brokerage cannot yet see where cases stall, establish that before commissioning an automation project. If suitable enquiries are genuinely scarce, the recommendation should address visibility rather than automate a process with too little demand.
How we assess the fit
The assessment is complete without relying on figures that are not cleared for publication.
The opening conversation
How much of the week goes on enquiries that were never going to transact?
Where do deals stall: at enquiry, mid-process or at completion?
What happens to a document request today, and who chases it?
The introduction process
You can reach us through the website or a referral, or we may have contacted your firm directly. There is no brief to prepare at this point; start with what you would like to change.
Before the call, we review the information available about your firm and prepare the points to explore. The conversation covers how Agency Network Solutions works and how we are paid, then the requirement itself.
For a brokerage, we inspect the public enquiry journey and use the call to map how qualification and document requests are handled behind it.
If there is a suitable fit, we explain the recommendation and make one introduction. The specialist's initial assessment, at no cost and no obligation, sets out the proposed scope, what the work would cost and how it would be measured. A separate detailed audit or delivery project may be chargeable; its terms are agreed with the agency.
Nothing in the assessment or introduction commits you to paid work. You can decide not to proceed after meeting the specialist. If you do go ahead, you agree scope and price directly with the agency; Agency Network Solutions is not a party to that contract. Our service remains free to your firm. The agency's own work is priced separately.
Clear about who pays
The agency pays us, and only once an introduction turns into a working relationship. That is deliberate. We are not paid for making introductions, we are paid for making good ones.
Recommending the wrong specialist costs us money and costs us the reputation that makes the next recommendation worth anything.
A directory is paid the moment a listing goes up. Nothing that happens afterwards changes what it earned.
Questions before you enquire
These are the brokerage types this page covers. The assessment starts with your specific activity and constraints. An introduction depends on finding an agency whose experience fits that brief.
Then the brief should address demand and visibility. We would not assume that administration is the problem simply because automation is available.
No. Initial information can help organise and route enquiries. Advice, suitability and other professional judgements need to remain with the appropriately responsible people and processes.
That needs an integration review. The specialist should establish the existing workflow, access controls and handling of confidential information before proposing how requests or reminders would work.
We would look for work relevant to the proposed discipline and assess whether it transfers to your type of brokerage. Experience in business broking alone does not establish suitability for regulated mortgage or insurance work.
Get started
Include the type of brokerage and the part of the process you would like to improve.
Every enquiry is reviewed personally by Gabriel O'Connor.
1 of 4Quick questions to help us understand what you need
There are 3 more short questions to come. Then you can send your answers by email.
One conversation
Tell us what needs to change. We will take responsibility for finding the right specialist.
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