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As we continue to develop our data lake, we have appointed Dominik as a Senior Data Engineer. WELCOME Dominik! So that you get to know Dominik a bit better, we have asked him a few questions:

We thought it would be great to share a calendar of events that we plan to attend in 2023!

As we announced our £1.3M fund raise with Fuel Ventures, we also appointed Eleanor Daniel as a Technical Data Analyst. WELCOME Eleanor!

MyNestBox is proud to be associated with a brand-new initiative to improve the experience of home movers and professionals involved in the home moving process.

National Conveyancing Week has been launched to raise the profile of organisations who conduct property transactions, with the inaugural event taking place from 20^th-24^th March 2023.

MyNestBox is gathering momentum in its mission to revolutionise the searches process for conveyancers following a successful £1.3 million seed round.

MyNestBox, a digital platform and API that connects thousands of data sources to speed up home buying, has raised a £1.3 million seed round led by Fuel Ventures, alongside backing from numerous property law firms.

We are proud to announce that MyNestBox has been named as the Construction & Building Services Startup at the South West Final of the StartUp Awards National Series

The StartUp Awards National Series debuted this year to highlight the dynamic startup scene across the country that skyrocketed during the pandemic, and has been rolled out in nine UK nations and regions, supported nationally by BT, EY Breakthrough Incentives, Clearco, Dell Technologies & Intel, Moblox, Fearless Adventures

We have vivid imaginations here at MyNestBox. Despite this, however crazy our dreams might seem, we believe in them. We believe that there is no limit to what we can achieve. So all that being said, here’s what we are working to achieve:

“I just finished 3 days of desktop research for a plot of land, and then found out that Nick was sat next to me doing the exact same research on its neighbouring property” - funny, frustrating, or outright criminal??

This is a direct quote from a colleague of mine on my first day as the technical lead for a previous employer.

Buying a house is slow. Home buyers are usually kept in the dark for long periods and property transaction lawyers (AKA conveyancers) spend 60% of their time being chased up. After all that, 1/3 of purchases fall through. The buyer misses out and the conveyancer can’t claim their (full) fees.

At MyNestBox we ingest a lot of data. We clean that data, process it, and make it fit for our purposes. But where that data comes from in the first place can often be a bit of a mystery.

We’re thrilled to announce our latest addition to MNB Assess, Site Levels. This exciting new ‘deal breaker’ data source allows you to see the height and shape of a site more easily and much earlier in the assessment process.

More News! We have appointed Liam as a Data Engineer and our first full time technical employee. WELCOME Liam!

Big News! We have appointed Robert Crosby as a Central Services Administrator. WELCOME!

An activity that every member of our team goes through after an initial period of job familiarisation is to create a list of the 3-4 main jobs that they are entirely accountable for within the MyNestBox team. These jobs are unique to each person and provide a sense of purpose and accountability to each role. Everyone knows exactly what tasks need to end up in their “important” category on their daily to-do list. It is an empowering way to work.

After many years of servicing the property industry as a data scientist and machine learning engineer, I found myself coming up with idea after idea after idea for new products and services tangentially related to my work. Unfortunately, these ideas were usually targeted at markets outside of the focus of my employer, so I was never able to bring them to fruition. I found myself getting itchier and itchier to implement them, so I made the leap - MyNestBox was born!