Pip&Po
Now accepting practices · London & commuter belt

Briefed homeowners. Pay only when you land the job.

Pricing0% on intros. 4% of fee on win.

Po finds residential homeowners with real budgets and concrete projects, briefs them properly, and only sends you the ones who actually fit your practice. No fee to be in the directory, no fee per introduction. You only pay if you win the work.

Apply for the directory Average review: 7–10 working days.
INTRO · #2024.0817 · Wandsworth · SW18 FIT 92%

Side return + kitchen reconfiguration on a late-Victorian terrace

Couple, early 40s. Decision-maker: wife. Ready to engage 2–3 weeks.
Budget
£450 – 550k all-in. Confirmed via Pip’s ceiling-check tool.
Aesthetic
BLDA, Fraher, Studio Hutch. She’s saved 26 references on Houzz.
Property
Atbara Road. Conservation area. PD route closed; full householder needed.
Route
Architect-led. Wants design pressure, not a brochure.
What they’re worried about Bad experience with a contractor two years ago — she will test you on reliability and on whether you’ve actually read the brief. Bring a sketch, not a deck.
Respond within 48h
Avg. intro budget
£412k
Trailing six months. Median in the £200k–£900k band.
Intros per practice / month
3.4
Lower than lead-gen platforms by design. Pre-vetted means fewer, better.
Practice conversion
38%
Median across the directory. Houzz, by comparison, sits closer to 3–6%.
Practices in directory
182
Curated. London & commuter belt. New applications: 7–10 day review.

How Po works for your practice.

The directory is curated. Inclusion is reviewed, ranking is calibrated on real performance, and intros only land in your inbox when there’s a properly briefed homeowner who fits. The structure is deliberately less generous on volume and more disciplined on fit than anything you’ve used before.

Step 01 · Application

Show us the work, the numbers, the practice.

Portfolio, planning history, references, recent projects, financials. We review against a clear set of criteria — and either let you in or tell you why not. Application is free. Most reviews take a week to ten days.

Step 02 · Intros

We brief you on real homeowners with real budgets.

Each intro arrives with everything you’d normally have to dig out yourself: budget, aesthetic, route, property data, the homeowner’s actual anxiety. Take it or pass within 48 hours. No fee either way.

Step 03 · Win & bill

You only pay if you land the job.

If the homeowner contracts with you, Po takes 4% of the signed professional fee on a single invoice at contract. Nothing else. No retainer, no per-intro fee, no ranking promotion to buy.

The intros that would have landed in your inbox this week.

May 12 – May 19 · representative sample
ID
Project
Postcode & type
Budget
Ready
Why this is a good intro
Status
#0824
Side return & kitchenLate-Victorian terrace
SW18 · Wandsworth
£450–550k
2–3 wks
Briefed, planning-tested, decision-maker clear. Architect-led.
Live
#0826
Loft + rear extensionEdwardian semi
W4 · Chiswick
£280–340k
Q3 2026
PD entitled. Aesthetic locked. Wants D&B.
Live
#0827
Basement & ground-floor reconfigStucco-front Georgian
W11 · Notting Hill
£900k–1.1m
Spring
Bringing own QS & lawyer. Architect-led, heritage-fluent.
Pending
#0828
Full refurb & reconfigListed grade-II terrace
SW3 · Chelsea
£3.8m–4.2m
Q4 2026
Heritage, lime render, pre-app stage. Architect with conservation track.
Pending
#0829
Kitchen reconfiguration onlyMansion-flat
SW7 · South Ken
£90–120k
Now
Below most architects’ floor — best fit: small practice or D&B.
Routed
#0831
Contemporary new-buildGarden plot, infill
SW13 · Barnes
£1.4–1.8m
Q1 2027
Planning view positive. Design pressure expected.
Live
Real briefs. Anonymised for this page. Your inbox sees the homeowner’s name, address, and full briefing once they’ve consented.

One way to pay. Only when you win.

No application fee. No directory fee. No per-introduction fee. No promotion-into-ranking. Po takes a single percentage of the signed professional fee when the homeowner contracts with you. The rest of the platform is free.

This is the structure because it’s the only one that aligns our incentives with yours. If the intro doesn’t convert, we don’t get paid either. So we don’t waste your time with bad-fit intros.

Per-intro economics · worked example

£280k project. £24,500 architect fee.
Intro briefed £0 · Po brings the homeowner to you, properly scoped.
If you pass £0 · Routed to another practice. No fee. Pass-rate doesn’t penalise.
If you take it £0 · You meet the homeowner. Pitch as you would normally.
If they don’t hire you £0 · Feedback is captured. You see what landed and what didn’t.
If they hire you 4% of signed fee · Single invoice at contract, paid 30 days.
Total Po fee on this example £980

What we won’t do.

The bright lines. The things that disqualify Po from sliding into the lead-gen register the supply side has been burned by for fifteen years.

Never · Bright line 01

We don’t sell leads.

Practices don’t pay to be in the directory. They don’t pay per intro. They don’t pay for visibility. The matching cannot be bought into. Ever.

Never · Bright line 02

We don’t send bad-fit intros to fill a quota.

If there’s no good match for a homeowner, there’s no intro. Better to disappoint a practice with a quiet week than waste their time on a bad-fit job.

Never · Bright line 03

We don’t mislead on the brief.

Briefings are honest about budget, timeline, decision-making, and anxieties. If a homeowner is shopping not committed, Po says so. You decide whether to engage.

Never · Bright line 04

We don’t penalise you for passing.

Saying no to a bad-fit intro is good practice. Slow response, ghosting, and poor conduct during the engagement are the negative signals — not declines.

Never · Bright line 05

We don’t share your data across the supply side.

Quote levels, win rates, repeat-business stats — confidential to each practice. Po holds the information. It doesn’t get shared across the directory.

Never · Bright line 06

We don’t break editorial integrity.

If your behaviour drops you in the ranking, no amount of relationship history or fee history changes that. Demotion is automatic. Promotion is too.

What practices in the directory actually say.

Three principals from the directory, on what a year of Po introductions has felt like compared to the platforms they were on before.

“Three of the seven intros we’ve taken converted to signed projects. My team stopped doom-scrolling Houzz. We’ve cancelled three other lead-gen subscriptions.”
Partner Architecture practice · SW London · 14 staff
“The brief tells me what the homeowner is afraid of. No platform has ever done that. I walk into the first meeting already addressing what would have lost me the job last year.”
Founder Design-and-build · West London · 28 staff
“Po phoned me when my response time dropped — not to lecture, just to ask if anything was going on. It was. First time a platform has treated us like adults.
Principal Structural engineering · commuter belt

What practices ask before applying.

If the question that’s on your mind isn’t here, email po@pipandpo.co.uk and you’ll get an answer from me within a working day.

How much does listing cost?

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Nothing. Application is free, listing is free, intros are free, your dashboard is free, the feedback loop is free. The directory is funded by a single percentage of the signed professional fee paid only when a homeowner contracts with you. If you don’t win the work, you don’t pay us. No other charges, ever.

How many intros will I actually get?

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Across the directory, the median is three or four a month, deliberately lower than mass-market lead platforms. We’d rather send you fewer, properly-briefed intros that convert at a 30–40% rate than fill your inbox with bad-fit work you’ll resent. If your week is quiet, that’s the system working as intended, not a problem to solve by lowering the bar.

Can I decline intros without penalty?

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Yes. Declining a bad-fit intro is good practice. The negative signals are slow response (we measure response time), ghosting on a homeowner mid-engagement, or behaviour during the project that homeowners flag. Saying no to work that isn’t right for you doesn’t move you anywhere.

How does ranking work? Can I buy a higher position?

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No. Ranking is calibrated on real performance — conversion rate, repeat business, quote-to-final variance, post-completion homeowner feedback. Behaviour moves you up. Behaviour moves you down. There is no paid promotion tier. There never will be. If we ever introduce one, the directory stops being worth your trust and ours.

Does Pip share my data with other practices?

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No. Your dashboard is yours alone. Quote levels, win rate, fee variance, repeat-business stats, the feedback homeowners gave on meetings you didn’t win — all confidential to your practice. We hold the data; we don’t share it across the supply side; we don’t sell it to anyone. That’s a permanent commitment, not a current policy.

What happens if I leave the directory?

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Your dashboard goes away, your historical performance data is deleted on request, and any open intros in your pipeline complete on their own terms. There’s no lock-in, no notice period, and no fee to leave. If a homeowner you met through Po contracts with you after you’ve left, we don’t chase a fee — you can engage them directly.

Apply to the directory.

Tell us about your practice. We’ll review against the criteria, come back with a decision in 7–10 working days, and either let you in or tell you why not.

Free to apply. Free to be in the directory. Pay only when you land a job through Po.
7–10days
Time to decision
4%
Of signed fee, on win
£0
To apply & appear
48h
To respond to an intro

Two doors. One company.

Po is one side of Pip & Po. The other side, Pip, runs the homeowner conversation that makes the brief you receive worth opening. If you’re visiting on someone else’s behalf — this might be more useful.