By the time a Cat B fit-out hits your inbox, it’s already a six-way pitch. Signal finds the London companies moving toward a fit-out or refurbishment months earlier — lease events, planning, growth — so your BD team is in the room before the brief is written.
The tender lands when five other contractors got it too. You compete on price, not relationship.
Right company, wrong week. No way to time the approach to when they’re actually deciding.
A database of London firms is noise without the trigger that says this one is about to fit out.
The most direct fit-out signal there is — someone has already paid for design. Filed by the occupier it usually means refurbishment in place; filed by the landlord, a decant and re-fit cycle.
The classic Cat B window: the occupier must renew, renegotiate or move — and two of those three usually end in a fit-out. Early enough to shape the brief, late enough to be real.
Stay-or-go decisions get made in the year before a break. Even the stayers often refit as the price of recommitting — a project either way.
Employee growth crossed with recorded floor area flags companies under space pressure — the ones whose next lease event becomes a project, not a renewal.
We track the public records that come before an office change — lease events, planning, filings and growth — across London.
Each company is ranked by how strong, recent and combined its signals are, and tuned to your sectors, areas and size.
You get a short list — companies, ranked, with why and when to call — so you arrive while they’re still deciding.
office fit-out leads · Cat B fit-out · design and build (D&B) · office refurbishment leads · commercial fit-out London · pre-tender leads
A ~120-person fintech in EC2. Lease expires in 14 months; hiring has run hot for two quarters; the building’s EPC is a C.
Signal scores it in the 80s — lease clock, sustained office-based hiring, density pressure — and flags that it isn’t in your CRM.
Your BD lead calls the COO with a stay-vs-go cost view months before any agent shortlist exists. When the move confirms, you’re the incumbent adviser — the tender, if there even is one, is shaped around your thinking.
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