Company Overview

Origin story

• At a glance Complete

  I have spent twenty years at the intersection of property and technology. Through it all, one truth held: the transaction is where the data lives, and the data is the relationship, the pipeline, and every service that follows. The time is right for a new product in real estate with the sector in distress, defending net asset values, whilst growing in transaction volume as COVID concessions and large PFI schemes come to an end. The environment is ideal to land a new product in lease management and expand at speed. With a carefully tailored product we can use AI to deliver a uniquely differentiated point solution whilst building and controlling the data needed to deliver AI native infrastructure at a corporate level. Harla is an AI native, modular lease management platform. Making leasing easy.

• Longer version Complete

  The time is right to build Harla, bringing all my experience in technology, real-estate, and digital transformation to the fore.

  I am building Harla to become the market leading product in the execution of leases for the real estate sector. A bridge between property and legal technology, and a gateway into the enormous contract intelligence market. Harla will land as a management solution for organising lease documentation, with the distinguishing feature of providing shareable views of asset schedules and obligations. As Harla's volume of lease data grows we will compound our value through the development of pre-trained models, improving standards in lease extraction and the delivery of data rich portfolio intelligence services.

  I've felt the pain of this problem from all sides: as an occupier that had an agent arrive two years late to begin a rent review negotiation; as an operator of multiple sites unaware of when my leases were coming up for renewal; as an asset manager being handed reams of lease documentation to try and find out when to instruct surveyors; to trying to assess the asset value of an estate and witnessing nobody having a clue when what parts had been sub-leased to who.

  After the financial crash I built and grew a series of companies managing a diverse range of real estate in East London. I served the mid-market with affordable workspace provision (FutureStudio), grew an agency supporting residential management to private landlords (Scawfells), and set up a vehicle to oversee the development and operation of mixed use sites (E8 Group).

  I experienced first hand the indirect impact of technology on the different sectors this work was exposed to. AirBnB, WeWork, Deliveroo and Uber all disrupted integral parts of the market. Whilst legislation and digitalisation transformed the rest. As my aspirations grew beyond fragile place-based operations I began building more defensible and scalable technology applications, investing in my own team to build solutions to support the operations of the assets we had under management.

  In 2019 I founded Mortar as a PropTech company to pursue our most scalable solution, a machine learning application for payment allocation for automating the update of rent and service charge statements. In partnership with the PwC PropTech team I was in the process of delivering four Proof of Concept projects with institutional landlords when the pandemic struck. I pivoted the team into local government and public sector solutions and became one of the country's leading service and systems designers. I have led the design and delivery of nationally scaling products for the government, place-based stakeholders such as the NHS, and large institutions such as the GLA, Southbank Center and Alzheimer's UK. I've done so whilst building a world-class product team with whom I've delivered increasingly complex data-sharing solutions and intelligence applications involving advanced techniques for working with poor quality, badly structured data.

  I did so whilst waiting for the right time to launch my new PropTech venture.

  Any good systems designer will tell you: begin at the point of transaction. The deal is where the data is. Hold the data and you hold the ongoing relationship, the pipeline, the entire way in which the customer is served by the sector. This is the best place to implement new technology; the perfect place to land and expand. This is where and why Harla exists.

Legal name

Harla Technology Ltd

Trading name

Harla

Company number

17264289

Jurisdiction

England and Wales

Type

Private company limited by shares

Date of incorporation

5 June 2026