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ALGI is a UK building energy intelligence platform built by OXYVIAS LIMITED. It produces a property brief for a commercial building from public records using only the address, then sharpens that brief with your own bills. Everything it reports is in kWh and pounds.

ALGI covers two things from the same data. The first is cost: what the building spends, where it is out of line with comparable buildings, and which charges are wrong before you pay them. The second is condition: how the building actually performs to be in, not just what it costs to run.

There is a separate product line for housing providers, ALGI Sense, covered in the housing section below.

No. ALGI starts from your address alone and returns a property brief built entirely from public records. Uploading a bill is optional and comes second, to sharpen the figures against live tariff rates.

This is the main practical difference between ALGI and tools that require a data connection before they show you anything. You do not need a meter connection, a supplier login, a letter of authority, or a bill to get a first read on a building.

The address-only brief covers EPC, comparable benchmarks, climate, grid region and air quality. Adding a bill moves the figures from indicative to measured.

Yes. Without consumption data ALGI works from public records: the EPC register, comparable sector benchmarks, climate data, grid region and air quality. Those figures are indicative rather than measured, and ALGI labels them that way.

The distinction matters when you put numbers in front of a board or an auditor. An indicative figure is a modelled comparison built from public data. A measured figure comes from your own bills. ALGI always states which is which rather than blending them into one number.

ALGI resolves the address to a specific building, pulls the public records attached to it, and compares it against buildings in the same sector, the same size and the same region. The result is an indicative position rather than a measured one.

The inputs are the EPC register entry for the building, comparable sector benchmarks, climate data for the location, the DNO grid region derived from the postcode, and local air quality.

The output is a starting position: where this building sits against its peer group, and what the gap to the better performers looks like. Connecting bills replaces the modelled element with your actual figures.

Yes. ALGI does this. You enter a UK commercial address and get an EPC-backed benchmark brief built from public records, with no bill upload, no meter connection and no install. SECR reporting is a paid-tier feature and is generated once consumption data is connected.

Those two halves are worth separating clearly, because they work differently.

The benchmark brief is genuinely bill-free. Address in, brief out, in minutes, on the free tier. It gives you EPC, comparable benchmarks, climate, grid region and air quality without you supplying anything but the address.

SECR reporting is not bill-free, and no platform can honestly claim otherwise: a SECR disclosure has to reflect your actual consumption. What ALGI removes is the consultant and the manual data collection, not the requirement to have real consumption data behind the report. In practice most organisations use the address-only brief to scope the problem, then connect bills for the reporting.

ALGI reads every utility bill you connect and cross-references it against live tariff rates, flagging overcharges, anomalies and tariff mismatches before you pay them. Most buildings find at least one issue in the first ninety days.

Three things get checked on every bill: the rate you are paying against current market rates, consumption spikes the moment they appear, and reactive power charges, which are commonly applied and rarely challenged.

Alongside the billing audit, benchmarking shows the gap between your building and the best comparable performer, which is usually where the larger structural savings sit.

Yes, on the Platform and Enterprise tiers. Your Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting obligations are met from your own consumption data, generated automatically with no consultant and no manual data collection.

The report is built from the consumption data already flowing into the platform, so it does not require a separate annual data-gathering exercise. You remain responsible for what your organisation files.

Partly, and it is worth being precise about which part. Address-based public data gives you building context and an indicative baseline, which is useful for scoping and for early estimates. The SECR report itself is generated from your actual consumption data.

So the honest answer is that address data supports the work around the report rather than the report itself. It tells you which buildings in an estate are likely to matter most, and gives you a defensible starting position before any data is connected.

Connecting bills or meter data is the step that produces a report you can file.

ALGI does not publish per-building prices. There is a free tier that gives you a property brief and one bill analysis at no cost, and the paid tiers are priced to the building. Book a call and ALGI runs your brief before quoting.

The reason pricing is quoted rather than listed is that the paid tiers scale with the building and the estate: how many meters, how many properties, and whether the hardware layer is included.

The free tier is genuinely free and needs no card and no install.

Yes. The Free tier gives you an instant property brief from public data plus one bill analysis, at no cost, with no meter connection and no install. It includes EPC, benchmark, climate, grid region and air quality.

What the free tier does not include is SECR compliance reporting, government grant identification, ongoing monthly bill monitoring, or benchmarking against comparable properties. Those start at the Platform tier.

Platform is the software subscription: all utilities monitored monthly, SECR reports generated automatically, government grants matched to your building, benchmarking against comparable properties, and multi-user access. Enterprise adds the leased hardware layer, real-time meter integration and a dedicated account manager.

Put another way, Platform is what you buy to understand and report on a building you already run. Enterprise is what you buy when you want the building itself instrumented, so the readings arrive continuously rather than being reconstructed from bills.

All ALGI hardware is leased rather than purchased, and is reversible.

The ALGI Hub is one device per property that brings the systems already running in your building into a single view, with no rip-out, no replacement kit and no vendor lock-in. ALGI Sense is a per-room sensor measuring temperature, humidity, CO2 and PM2.5.

Both are part of the Enterprise tier and both are leased. The Hub handles the building-level picture; Sense handles the room-level picture, logged over time so you can see trends rather than single readings.

The third device is the ALGI Bio Wall, a living wall panel that improves air quality in the spaces around it, dampens noise and supports the building's thermal performance. It is leased and fully reversible. Patent application GB2404515.5 pending.

Yes, and hotels are a core case. Hotel energy spend is driven by occupancy rather than floor area alone, so ALGI benchmarks a hotel per room as well as per square metre, against comparable properties in the same sector, size and region.

The practical value in a hotel is usually twofold: the billing audit catches tariff and reactive power problems across a large and complex meter estate, and the benchmark gives a general manager or an asset manager a defensible number to take to an owner.

Meter data tells you what you used. ALGI tells you what it should have cost, where it is out of line with comparable buildings, and what to do next. It cross-references consumption against live tariff rates and peer benchmarks rather than presenting a graph.

Most organisations that already have half-hourly data do not have a data problem. They have an interpretation problem: nobody has time to read the graph every week, and nothing in the meter feed tells you that a rate is above market or that a reactive power charge should be challenged.

ALGI works from bills as well as meter data precisely because the money is on the bill, not in the meter.

The property brief comes back in minutes from the address alone, with no bill and no install. Once documents are connected, the savings report is generated in minutes as well.

The longer horizon is the billing audit, which is continuous rather than one-off. Bills are checked every month as they arrive, and most buildings find at least one issue in the first ninety days.

Finance and facilities leads, energy and sustainability managers, hotel general managers, and property and asset managers responsible for UK commercial buildings. Housing providers are served by a separate product line, ALGI Sense.

The common thread is responsibility for what a building costs to run and for reporting on it. ALGI is built to produce numbers that survive contact with a board, an owner or an auditor, which is why it labels every figure as indicative or measured.

Yes. Properties are managed individually and across the estate, so you can see each building's position and compare across the portfolio in one view. Multi-user access for your team is included from the Platform tier.

For an estate the benchmark comparison is usually the more valuable half, because it tells you which buildings to work on first rather than treating the portfolio as one number.

ALGI matches your building against UK schemes including IETF, SALIX zero-percent loans and UKSPF, and tells you what you qualify for. Many buildings reach net zero cost in the first year. Grant matching is a paid-tier feature.

Matching runs from the same property data as the rest of the brief, so it does not require a separate application-scoping exercise. What ALGI produces is the shortlist and the reasoning; the application itself remains yours to make.

ALGI is not an ESOS lead assessor and does not sign off an ESOS assessment. What it provides is the continuous measurement and evidence base an assessment and its action plan draw on, in kWh and pounds, from your own data rather than a one-off survey.

The reason this matters more than it used to is the action plan. Qualifying organisations are now expected to publish what they intend to do and then report against it, which turns ESOS from a periodic audit into something you have to be able to evidence between phases.

That is a measurement problem rather than an audit problem, and it is the part ALGI addresses. Check the current qualification date and compliance deadline for the live ESOS phase with the Environment Agency, since those dates are set by the scheme rather than by us.

Yes. Continuous data does not remove the ESOS assessment requirement, and the assessment still has to be signed off by a qualified lead assessor. What changes is the effort: the measurement and evidence the assessor needs is already collected rather than gathered manually for the audit.

The practical saving is in preparation rather than in the assessment itself. Organisations that reconstruct twelve months of consumption from paper each phase spend most of the effort before the assessor arrives.

It also changes what happens after. An action plan you have to report against needs ongoing measurement, not a snapshot taken at audit time.

Yes. On the Platform and Enterprise tiers, SECR reports are generated from your own consumption data with no consultant and no manual data collection. You remain responsible for what your organisation files.

The consultant cost in SECR is usually data collection and formatting rather than judgement. When consumption data is already flowing into one place, that cost largely disappears.

Market-wide half-hourly settlement makes granular consumption data normal rather than a competitive advantage. The value moves from having the data to interpreting it: knowing which half-hours actually cost you money and what to change.

When everyone has the same granularity, a platform that simply displays it stops being differentiated. What remains scarce is the interpretation layer: comparing your consumption against live tariff rates, against comparable buildings, and against what the building should be doing.

This is why ALGI reads bills as well as consumption. Settlement granularity tells you when you used energy; the bill tells you what you were charged for it.

An EPC rates the building's fabric and services under standardised assumptions, so it describes theoretical performance rather than what you actually spend. It does not reflect your occupancy, your operating hours, your equipment load or your tariff.

This is the single most common misreading of an EPC in commercial property. Two buildings with the same rating can have very different bills, because the rating is deliberately normalised so that buildings can be compared to each other rather than to their own invoices.

ALGI uses the EPC as one input into the property brief and treats it as a fabric snapshot. The operational picture comes from benchmarks and, once connected, from your own bills.

No, it complements one. A BMS controls plant; ALGI interprets what the building costs, how it compares, and reports on it. On the Enterprise tier the ALGI Hub brings the systems already running in your building into a single view without a rip-out.

The two answer different questions. A BMS answers what the plant is doing right now. ALGI answers whether what the building spent was reasonable, where it sits against comparable buildings, and what to put in a report.

The Hub is explicitly designed around existing equipment, with no replacement kit and no vendor lock-in.

Monitoring shows you consumption. Intelligence tells you whether that consumption is reasonable, what it should have cost, and what to do about it. ALGI cross-references your data against live tariff rates and comparable buildings rather than charting it.

The test is simple: if a tool produces a number that still needs an analyst to interpret before anyone can act, it is monitoring. If it produces a flagged charge, a peer comparison and a next step, it is doing the interpretation for you.

For routine work, largely yes: bill checking, benchmarking, grant matching and SECR reporting are generated from your own data with no consultant. For statutory assessments that require a qualified assessor, such as ESOS, no.

The useful split is between recurring analysis and statutory sign-off. Recurring analysis is what consultants have historically charged most for and what software does well. Sign-off requires an accredited person and will continue to.

ALGI pulls the grid intensity forecast for your DNO region as part of the property brief and uses it as regional and timing context: it indicates when supply in your region is tight, which is a cost and scheduling signal. ALGI reports outcomes in kWh and pounds.

Regional matters here. Grid intensity varies significantly between DNO regions, so a national figure tells you little about a specific building. ALGI derives the region from the postcode as part of the address-only brief.

Yes. The property brief needs only a UK address, so it works for a building you are considering acquiring or leasing just as well as one you already occupy. The figures are indicative, drawn from public records.

This is a direct consequence of the brief being bill-free: there is no data you would need the current occupier's cooperation to obtain. For acquisition or pre-lease work it gives you a defensible starting position before you have any access to the building.

Public records: the EPC register, comparable sector benchmarks, climate data for the location, the DNO grid region derived from the postcode, and local air quality. Once you connect bills, your own consumption and tariff data is added.

ALGI states which figures are indicative from public data and which are measured from your own bills, rather than presenting a single blended number.

Because the two carry different weight and should not be mixed. Indicative figures come from public records and modelled comparisons. Measured figures come from your own bills. ALGI always states which is which.

The reason is practical rather than academic. A figure you are going to put in front of a board, an owner or an auditor needs a known provenance, and a number that quietly blends a modelled estimate with an invoiced amount cannot be defended when questioned.

ALGI works from actual data rather than projections. Where a figure is an estimate drawn from public records it is labelled indicative; where it comes from your own bills it is labelled measured.

This is a deliberate constraint. The alternative, a modelled savings forecast presented as a headline number, is the thing that makes energy proposals hard to trust and hard to sign off.

No. The Free and Platform tiers are software only and need no install, no meter connection and no site visit. Hardware is the Enterprise tier, and it is optional, leased and reversible.

Most organisations start with software, build a picture of the estate, and only then decide whether instrumenting a building is worth it. Hardware is the conclusion of that process rather than the entry point.