DealBrief is off-market property distress intelligence for UK investors. It reads the public record daily (Companies House, The Gazette, HM Land Registry), scores owners under genuine financial pressure, and delivers a ranked morning briefing with the decision-maker and a compliant outreach draft.

How is DealBrief different from Searchland?

A filtered-list tool shows every property that matches your criteria. DealBrief leads with distress, the motivated seller, ranking owners under real pressure (receiver appointments, winding-up petitions, EPC non-compliance) and joining them to the title, on top of full map, search, valuation and planning features.

Where does the data come from?

Official open data only: Companies House, The Gazette (Open Government Licence v3.0) and HM Land Registry. No scraping. Every signal links to its primary source.

How much does DealBrief cost?

Plans start at £49 a month for the weekly distress-leads email, with the full platform from £199 a month. Every plan is a 14-day free trial, monthly rolling, no minimum term.

Comparison

DealBrief vs GalimAI.

GalimAI is the closest tool to DealBrief: both read the same UK public record - Companies House, The Gazette and HM Land Registry - to find owners likely to sell before they list. So the data isn't the difference. The difference is the product. DealBrief is a self-serve platform of dated legal-distress events that you control; GalimAI is a done-for-you letter service scored on sell-probability. Every claim below is drawn from each tool's own published pages, checked June 2026.

Capability	DealBrief	GalimAI
What you actually get The product you pay for	✓ A self-serve platform you log into. You keep the leads, see each signal's source filing, and run your own outreach (or use the included compliant drafts).	◐ A done-for-you service: GalimAI runs letter campaigns on your behalf. Per its own pricing, outreach is charged per letter and per verified lead.
Distress signal type How the seller is identified	✓ Acute, dated legal events: receiver appointments, winding-up petitions, strike-off countdowns, bridging-loan maturities, EPC/MEES pressure - each a dated event, not a guess.	◐ A statistical model scoring property-owning companies by probability of selling in the next 6 to 12 months. Broader, but a likelihood rather than a dated event.
Owner coverage Who gets surfaced	✓ Company-owned and individually-owned property, including tired landlords under EPC/MEES pressure.	◐ Focused on property-owning companies and SPVs.
Pricing model How it scales	✓ Flat published subscription: £49/mo for distress leads, £199/mo for the full platform. Your cost doesn't rise with how much outreach you do.	◐ Per-letter and per-verified-lead pricing (a managed-service model). Cost scales with outreach volume.
Control and transparency Whose relationship is it	✓ You own the lead and the relationship. Every signal links to its primary source (the actual filing or Gazette notice) so you can verify it.	◐ Outreach is managed for you, which means less direct control over the platform, the data and the conversation.

The honest verdict

If you want someone to run letter campaigns for you and you're happy paying per lead, GalimAI's managed model can suit. If you want to own the platform - see every distress event the moment it hits the public record, verify it against the source filing, keep the leads, and decide how and when you reach out - that's what DealBrief is built for. Same public data; a self-serve platform you control versus a service that runs outreach for you.

Questions people ask

Is DealBrief an alternative to GalimAI?

Yes. Both read the same UK public record (Companies House, The Gazette and HM Land Registry) to find property owners likely to sell before they list. The difference is what you get: DealBrief is a self-serve platform you log into, where you keep the leads and run your own outreach; GalimAI is a done-for-you letter agency that runs outreach campaigns on your behalf and charges per letter and per verified lead.

What is the difference between DealBrief and GalimAI?

DealBrief surfaces acute, dated legal distress events (receiver appointments, winding-up petitions, strike-off countdowns, bridging-loan maturities and EPC/MEES landlord pressure), each shown with its source filing and joined to the title. GalimAI scores property-owning companies with a statistical probability of selling in the next 6 to 12 months and turns that into managed letter campaigns. DealBrief is event-level and self-serve; GalimAI is probability-led and done-for-you.

Does GalimAI use the same data as DealBrief?

Largely yes - both are built on Companies House, The Gazette and HM Land Registry, which are public. The data source is not the moat for either tool. The difference is how the signals are joined and scored, the breadth of distress events covered, and whether you get a platform you control or a managed letter service.

DealBrief vs GalimAI: which covers more types of distressed owner?

DealBrief covers both company-owned and individually-owned property, plus EPC/MEES landlord-exit pressure and several dated insolvency events. GalimAI is focused on property-owning companies and SPVs scored by sell-probability. If you want individual landlords and EPC-driven sellers as well as corporate distress, DealBrief's coverage is broader.

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