Our story

25 years in proptech.
One trusted team for the AI age.

We’re a team of proptech professionals who have been serving the industry for nearly 25 years. ModelProp’s founders were there as the digital revolution arrived at the turn of the millennium, helped agents through mobile and social, and now we’re harnessing AI to ensure that estate and letting agents can benefit from this latest tech wave too.

We have skills, honed over decades, that understand your business. We have experience, already, in building and deploying AI into agencies. And we feel as strongly about your reputation as we do our own — so you can trust us to be the one team that won’t blind you with jargon.

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2000Primelocation.com launch team
2005Primelocation £48M exit
2008Zoopla launches
2015OnTheMarket launches
2016Growtion proptech consultancy founded
2018CML sold to MRI
2019Blacksmiths Tech launched
2023ModelProp founded — AI for property
2024Blacksmiths Tech & ModelProp merge
2026Six AI products shipping
Our team

The team building the next wave of proptech.

Alex Ali

Alex Ali

CTO

Alex has shaped proptech and fintech for 20+ years. He held senior positions at estate agency software business CML, and at MRI after its acquisition. He then co-founded Finch, the smart-contract business now part of the ModelProp family.

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Laura Newman

Laura Newman

Head of Sales

Laura has 20+ years building proptech businesses. She was on the launch team at OnTheMarket and an early sales leader at Zoopla. At ModelProp she leads sales with a sharp focus on brand awareness, team empowerment and process design.

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Mal McCallion

Mal McCallion

CEO

Mal helped launch Primelocation.com in 2000, leaving after its £48m exit in 2005. He then helped launch Zoopla, before running proptech consultancy Growtion. 25+ years of building tech that helps UK estate agents.

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Rob Chapman

Rob Chapman

COO

Rob has spent decades building client-side property and software products in construction, IT and proptech — latterly at MRI-acquired CML. With Alex he co-founded Finch, bringing infinite flexibility to bespoke contracts.

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Our approach

Committed collaborators. We build around you.

We take time to understand your business and to build products and services around you. One of the extraordinary benefits of AI is its ability to reflect the values and language of the organisation that it is trained to work within.

This creates a significant opportunity for businesses of any shape and size to quickly benefit from cost-savings and process efficiencies that otherwise would take months or years to bear fruit. Whatever your business challenge, ModelProp can help.

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Listen

Understand your business, your team, your customers and your goals.

Design

Translate goals into an AI stack that fits — not a generic toolkit.

Ship

Build, deploy and iterate. Real outcomes, not slideware.

Grow

Measure, refine and expand. Compound the gains over time.

Us in numbers

The numbers behind the trust.

25+Years in proptech
6AI products shipping
250+Agent branches using ModelProp
24/7Reliability across the piece