Acre thrives post acquisition, exceeding 150% growth

08 July 2026

• The UK’s fastest growing intermediary CRM: Acre’s share of mortgage lending continue to rise, handling a record 20,000 mortgage submissions in a single month
  
  
• AI enters the mortgage journey: Acre’s AI-powered verification system embeds true intelligence into workflows, helping brokers provide the best customer outcomes every time
  
  
• Improved workflow drives identification of protection needs: New workflows automating referrals, client disclaimers, proprietary customer Risk Reports and embedded health fact finding directly in the Client Portal are driving protection penetration over 85% for mortgage cases.

08 July 2026, London: Acre today announced record levels of activity across its intermediary platform, following its acquisition by ClearScore in January. Since the start of 2026, Acre has seen revenue grow 2.5x year-on-year, while the value of mortgage transactions submitted through the platform reached a new record.

The platform also recently surpassed its monthly record for submissions to lenders, with one month alone seeing over 20,000 submissions. This was made possible through the platform's direct Decision in Principle integrations with lenders like Nationwide and Halifax, which ensures that each case submission meets lender requirements before they submit.

Acre’s growth reflects the appetite from advisors, firms and networks to turn to intuitive platforms, like Acre, in order to boost productivity, improve conversion rates and unlock new revenue streams with cross sales and referrals.

Justus Brown, Acre founder and Managing Director, said,

“Over the last few years, we’ve proven that technology built from the ground up can reshape the mortgage process and close the protection gap. Now, as we enter the AI era, we’re pushing that transformation further - using intelligent automation to handle the heavy lifting, and elevating broker-client experience.”

“With ClearScore behind us, we’re scaling that ambition at pace. Advisors, firms and networks now have an unprecedented opportunity to harness Acre’s data, lender integrations and AI-driven workflows to unlock growth, improve outcomes and deliver a superior mortgage experience.”

Acre’s platform evolution, including AI

2026 is proving a pivotal year for AI in financial services, with pressure from clients using it in research and planning, and brokers and providers applying automation to routine, rules-based tasks.

Acre is accelerating its existing in-house AI technology using the power of ClearScore Group to drive impact across the entire mortgage ecosystem. The platform is building on its existing verification technology by rolling out new AI-powered workflows in areas such as document verification, voice fact finding and call analysis, and compliance risk analysis – transforming compliance from a manual, time-intensive process into one that is automated and proactive.

Actively closing the protection gap

Closing the protection gap is a key area in Acre’s roadmap, with client engagement identified as the driving force. Acre provides the prompts and workflows to direct advisers to have the “let’s protect your family” client conversation with an associated disclaimer if protection advice is declined. The introduction of new features like the health fact find in Client Portal, complementing the existing comprehensive support in the broker platform, alongside bespoke risk reports, firm-bespoke protection disclaimers, and enhanced multi-policy sourcing Acre is ensuring advisers have the conversation with all of their clients.

As a result of Acre efforts, advisors on the platform are identifying protection needs for 85% of their mortgage clients. Which is consistent with the FCA’s recent finding that 72% of consumers' identified protection needs are not covered.

Nicola Ventrella, Operations Director at The Right Mortgage & Protection Network, commented:

"Bringing Acre in as a core day-to-day platform marked a pivotal step forward for us as a network, and for our firms and advisers. Since coming onboard, we’ve seen a significant leap in efficiency and opened up opportunities in areas like protection, lead generation, and client communication. Crucially, it puts us and our members in a strong position to keep developing our proposition and make the most of every product area and solution we offer."