AuctionSavvy and Easy Live Auction

Why I built AuctionSavvy

I have spent many years in the antique furniture trade and, more recently, buying through online auctions. My mornings often involved repeating the same searches across numerous houses and sale dates, then working out where each auction was and whether collection was practical.

Relevant lots were easy to miss when catalogue wording varied, when they appeared outside my usual area or when they were offered by a house I did not already follow. The catalogue information existed; the difficult part was deciding quickly what deserved attention.

I built AuctionSavvy to solve that buyer-side problem. It creates a concise, personalised morning briefing, organised by relevance, location and urgency, so a dealer or collector can identify promising opportunities and continue to the official Easy Live Auction listing.

What has been demonstrated

These figures demonstrate working scale, not user adoption or commercial performance.

The demonstration is not a collection of manually arranged pages. During development, its working pipeline gathered new listings, applied configured interests, organised matching lots and rebuilt the briefing automatically. Further automated collection was stopped on 14 August. The site now preserves a stable proposal snapshot while an authorised future data arrangement is explored.

• Morning Briefing — relevant lots grouped into Local Auctions, UK-Wide Today and UK-Wide Later, making geography and urgency immediately visible.
• Featured and Refined searches — broader interests create the briefing, while a second set of private phrases narrows the displayed lots to specific current requirements.
• UK auction-house map — 490 houses can be explored by location, with forthcoming sale information where available and links to official auction pages.
• Working Chrome companion — a privately used browser extension already reveals auction-house addresses and postcodes while browsing Easy Live Auction. Any wider use or additional functions would be discussed transparently.
• Reminder concept — a bell on each card demonstrates a simple auction-day reminder that would return a signed-in member to the official lot at the right time.

A separate private sourcing trial has also demonstrated a 7am AI-assisted matching report. It compared test wanted-item requirements with newly loaded listings and emailed prioritised possibilities, short match explanations and direct official links. A member version would normally let users maintain those requirements inside AuctionSavvy, with uncertain matches clearly marked for human review. It would not contact customers or place bids.

What Easy Live Auction gains

The same discovery approach is relevant to serious collectors, trade buyers, art and antiques advisers, interior sourcing specialists and overseas buying tours. Looking further ahead, it could also guide prospective sellers towards an appropriate auction house and its official valuation or consignment process.

Why collaboration matters

AuctionSavvy introduces catalogue descriptions, photographs and auction-house information during the discovery stage, before a buyer reaches the official registration and bidding journey. Close collaboration would allow Easy Live Auction and its auctioneers to help shape how that material is presented, attributed and linked.

An agreed relationship would also give Easy Live Auction visibility of which discovery routes produce useful engagement, while allowing buyer-facing ideas to be tested against auctioneer expectations and platform priorities. AuctionSavvy can undertake the product development without requiring a large initial commitment of Easy Live Auction’s engineering resources; the appropriate level of technical and commercial involvement can be shaped together.

The purpose is not to operate at arm’s length. It is to build a complementary buyer service whose presentation, safeguards and measures are aligned with Easy Live Auction and the auctioneers it serves.

Responsible data use

The private, invitation-only demonstration uses information gathered from publicly accessible Easy Live Auction pages for proof-of-concept purposes. Rights in catalogue descriptions, photographs and related material remain with Easy Live Auction, participating auctioneers and their respective rights holders.

A live service would not rely on unapproved automated collection. Development would proceed only under a written arrangement covering:

• the authorised data source and permitted purposes;
• attribution, linking and presentation; and
• appropriate privacy, correction and removal processes.

Easy Live Auction’s listing would remain the authoritative record. Members would always be directed there to verify descriptions, condition, estimates, fees and terms before acting.

How this might proceed

If the underlying proposition is of interest, a staged approach with clearly agreed responsibilities and meaningful measures would be the sensible way forward. The sequence should be shaped by Easy Live Auction: an initial walkthrough could lead to a data and technical discussion, followed by a sufficiently measured development phase if both parties wished to continue.

No public launch or commercial operation is proposed before the necessary permissions, safeguards and working arrangements are in place.

An invitation to see it working

I would welcome the opportunity to show the working system to the person responsible for product, customer experience or commercial partnerships at Easy Live Auction, and to hear an honest view on whether the buyer problem and this approach are of interest.

I am not asking for a decision on data access, integration or commercial terms at the first conversation. The immediate request is simply the opportunity to demonstrate what has been built, answer questions candidly and understand whether there is a useful basis for a further discussion.

One possible membership model

Included only to show one possible commercial shape—not as a commitment on pricing or final structure.

Possible Easy Live Auction customer benefit. An agreed introductory offer for eligible existing members could support early adoption without requiring customer data to be shared.

Possible future directions

Four coherent directions for discussion—not existing partnerships or commitments.

The priority would be the smallest set of additions that demonstrates useful buyer engagement without complicating the morning experience.