AuctionSavvy
AuctionSavvy helps motivated dealers and collectors find relevant EasyLive lots faster—then sends them to EasyLive to view and bid.
For EasyLive
- EasyLive remains the official catalogue, registration and bidding destination. No transaction takes place on AuctionSavvy, and every lot links to its official EasyLive listing.
- AuctionSavvy is designed to generate additional qualified traffic by promoting the service to dealers and collectors, including people who may not currently visit EasyLive regularly.
- It is designed to create value for existing members too—helping current EasyLive bidders find relevant lots faster and encouraging them to return more regularly and bid more often.
- Any live service would operate under an agreed data-access arrangement.
Instead of repeatedly reviewing broad search results, users choose the types of items, locations and auction houses that matter to them. AuctionSavvy then presents relevant new lots in a simple, time-sensitive briefing—a useful starting point, without attempting to replace EasyLive’s catalogue, search or bidding service.
Designed for a ten-minute morning check
In around ten minutes, a dealer or collector should be able to see what is new within their chosen interests, what is local, what is selling soon and what may match a customer request or personal collecting priority—then follow any promising item straight through to EasyLive.
Everything AuctionSavvy develops follows the same principle: plain language, sensible defaults, minimal setup and only the controls that make finding and assessing items quicker.
EasyLive runs the auctions. AuctionSavvy helps busy dealers and collectors decide what deserves their attention.
This demonstration brings three complementary tools together.
Lots
To demonstrate how personalisation would work, this version uses two example search interests—pine furniture and butchers’ blocks—and a small selection of auction houses designated as Local. These are demonstration choices; members would select their own interests and local auction houses.
Matching items are organised into Local Auctions, UK-Wide Today and UK-Wide Later, making them quick to assess by location and urgency.
Don’t miss an auction—or a lot—you have already marked as interesting. The cards demonstrate a planned reminder bell which, with an agreed live service, could send a signed-in member an auction-day email containing the official EasyLive lot link, with an optional second reminder shortly before the auction begins.
Map
An interactive map of UK auction houses, colour-coded by when their next sale takes place, with Now, Soon, Later and All views and a searchable house list. Selecting a house reveals its address, forthcoming sales and a link to its official auction page. A future route-planning feature could highlight auction houses along a journey and make collection planning easier.
Refined search — working demonstration
Featured searches create the broader selection of lots; the Refined search provides a second, more specific layer within it and is managed alongside those searches on the Edit page.
This working demonstration stores the private list in the user’s own browser, uploads no personal information and checks every active item against the current briefing with one click. It uses transparent keyword matching and clearly labels possible matches before directing users to EasyLive for verification.
With an authorised data feed, it could develop into AI-assisted matching that understands natural-language descriptions, dimensions and close alternatives, with optional alerts.
A working demonstration, not a fixed catalogue
The version presented to EasyLive will be intentionally frozen as a stable demonstration snapshot, but the processes behind it are not static. When supplied with fresh information, they automatically identify relevant lots, remove duplicates, match houses and locations, rebuild the briefing and update the map. With an authorised EasyLive feed, the same processes could organise supplied catalogue data reliably, at greater scale and around each member’s individual preferences.
Supporting discovery on EasyLive
AuctionSavvy’s personalised briefing is a starting point, not a replacement for wider browsing on EasyLive. Members could keep their interests broad and change them easily, while the rotating Daily Showcase would introduce non-members to different categories and encourage exploration beyond a fixed shortlist.
For EasyLive, the benefit could work in both directions: new dealers and collectors discovering the platform through AuctionSavvy’s own promotion, and existing customers finding relevant lots faster—returning more regularly and bidding more often. AuctionSavvy would not compete for the transaction; it would be an additional route through which relevant, motivated buyers reach EasyLive.
Access and membership
For discussion only, and subject to an agreed EasyLive partnership and authorised data feed, one possible structure would use three simple tiers. Final features, access rules and pricing would be agreed later.
Free
Access to the UK auction-house map, upcoming sale dates and a limited Daily Showcase rotating between featured categories. It would demonstrate the discovery journey without personal searches, alerts or a complete personalised briefing.
Collector
A personalised morning briefing built from the member’s chosen interests, preferred auction houses and location, with AI-assisted Featured Search setup, simple controls and auction reminders. It would be designed for collectors and other serious private buyers.
Trade
Everything in Collector, plus professional sourcing tools such as multiple wanted-item requests, AI-assisted matching, morning reports and a future AI Journey & Collection Planner developed with EasyLive.
A private AI-assisted trial is already testing this workflow. A future member service would normally let users add, edit and remove wanted items directly inside AuctionSavvy, with optional import of relevant product requirements from a message. Human review, direct EasyLive links and appropriate privacy, security and authorised-data arrangements would remain central.
AI-assisted Featured Search setup
Members should be able to describe a broad interest without compiling a long list of keywords themselves. Entering “ceramics”, for example, could prompt AuctionSavvy to suggest pottery, porcelain, chinaware, stoneware, earthenware, studio pottery and other associated terms.
The member would accept, remove or edit the suggestions before saving them. Only those approved terms would be used to build the daily briefing, keeping the results transparent, predictable and easy to correct without asking AI to judge every incoming lot. Featured Search would remain the broad selection; Refined Search would be the more precise layer for a particular object or active requirement.
AI Journey & Collection Planner
A future Trade feature could develop AuctionSavvy from a morning discovery tool into a continuous planning companion. A dealer might say, “I’m travelling to Newcastle on Thursday.” The assistant could ask a few useful questions, then combine saved interests and current commitments with relevant lots, auction dates, collection windows and travel information to suggest an efficient plan.
Rather than sending isolated alerts, it could keep the plan up to date as new opportunities or commitments appear—highlighting worthwhile diversions, compatible collections and auctions that fit the journey. Members would choose what the assistant remembers and could edit or delete it at any time. A live version would require authorised auction information and suitable mapping and collection data.
UK-wide delivery support
Finding a suitable item is only useful if collecting it is practical. Where an auction house offers its own delivery or courier arrangement, AuctionSavvy could present that option first. Alongside this, it could introduce members to independent specialist UK-wide delivery providers, with indicative pricing based on the auction-house location and item details.
By reducing delivery uncertainty before bidding, more geographically distant lots could become practical purchases—bringing additional qualified bidders to listings they might otherwise pass over. This is a proposed capability rather than an existing partnership; any quotation and service would be provided by the independent delivery company.
Chrome companion
Alongside the main service, AuctionSavvy has an optional Chrome companion for people browsing EasyLive directly. In the current demonstration, hovering over an auction-house name reveals its address and postcode—information that can otherwise take several clicks to find.
It is a small example of the wider principle: remove avoidable steps and make daily auction research quicker. Any broader integration affecting EasyLive’s website, listings or data would be developed transparently and in consultation with EasyLive.
Helping sellers find the right auction house
Looking ahead, AuctionSavvy could also use the map to help people considering selling identify auction houses suited to a particular item—from furniture and collectables to art, jewellery and specialist pieces. Clear guidance could explain the selling process and provide a direct route to request a valuation or make an enquiry with the relevant auction house.
This would make the first step less daunting for new sellers while helping auction houses receive more relevant enquiries and better-matched consignments.
Reaching overseas buyers
AuctionSavvy could also help specialist buying-tour organisers, overseas dealers, designers and import businesses discover relevant UK auctions. Visitors could identify suitable sales and lots before a sourcing trip, add auction visits to itineraries alongside fairs and dealer appointments, or buy remotely through existing UK contacts.
This could introduce UK auction houses to informed international buyers who might otherwise never know that a relevant sale was taking place.
Streamlined condition report requests
With EasyLive and participating auction houses, a member could send a structured request from a lot card to the auctioneer’s official enquiry route and receive an update when a report is available. The auctioneer would remain responsible for inspecting the lot and providing the condition information.
This would only be developed with EasyLive’s agreement and guidance, with safeguards to prevent duplicate or excessive requests and to respect each auction house’s capacity. If EasyLive or participating auction houses considered the feature unhelpful, it would not be pursued.
Working responsibly with auction data
All lot and auction information in this demonstration is sourced from EasyLive. Rights in the listings, descriptions and imagery remain with EasyLive, the participating auctioneers and their respective rights holders.
AuctionSavvy is currently a password-protected, invitation-only demonstration created to explore a potential partnership with EasyLive. It is not offered as a commercial service.
We recognise that EasyLive’s published site-usage terms require written permission for automated data collection. Any development beyond this demonstration would therefore be undertaken through an agreed data-access arrangement or partnership. We will promptly remove any information or imagery at the request of EasyLive or the relevant rights holder.
Contact
Questions or feedback? ken@auctionhunter.co.uk