Bricky Bot vs Autoprop
Weighing up Bricky Bot vs Autoprop? Both are AI that does the lettings work instead of just recording it. Autoprop is built for letting agencies: enquiries, phone calls, viewings, referencing and maintenance, for one flat £500 a month. Bricky Bot is built for people who let room by room, works in SpareRoom, OpenRent and WhatsApp, and waits for your ✅.
Luke AshtonFounder of Bricky Bot and Based Lettings · Updated The short answer
- Choose Autoprop if you run a letting agency with Rightmove and Zoopla enquiries, a phone that rings after hours and a pipeline from viewing to move-in, and you’d like AI to run agreed workflows on its own, for £500 a month plus VAT with no per-user fee.
- Choose Bricky Bot if you run HMOs, co-living or rent-to-rent, your lettings happen on SpareRoom, OpenRent and in the house WhatsApp groups, and you want every message drafted for a person to approve before it goes.
- The honest line: Autoprop answers the phone, runs a website chatbot, covers Rightmove and Zoopla enquiries and can run steps without waiting for you, which Bricky Bot doesn’t. Autoprop doesn’t sell a landlord plan and its pages don’t mention HMOs, rooms or SpareRoom; that is where Bricky Bot was built.
What Autoprop does well
Autoprop is run by Autoprop Ltd, incorporated in June 2025, and was built by James Moss, a UK estate agent, after automating the lettings admin his own team did by hand (about Autoprop). It says the product was “developed inside a working agency”. A few things stand out on its own pages:
- The whole agency journey. Enquiry to viewing, offer to move-in (offers, reference chasing, tenancy set-up), then maintenance, compliance and certificate tracking, inspections, check-ins and check-outs, renewals, rent reviews and arrears follow-up (autoprop.ai).
- The phones and the out-of-hours gap. Inbound calls answered, scheduled outbound calls, a website chatbot and the inbox, in the agency’s tone. Its own analysis of 1,542 UK lettings enquiries found 72.8% arrived outside branch hours (Autoprop press page).
- One published price. £500 a month plus VAT, no per-user seats, no per-property charges and no commission on lets, with a free pilot and about an hour of set-up (Autoprop pricing).
- Keep your CRM, or use it as one. It is a lettings CRM in its own right, connects and writes back to Apex27 today, and works around Reapit, Alto and Jupix, while being careful to say a direct sync shouldn’t be assumed (Autoprop for Alto).
- Clear rules about control. Agencies choose which actions run automatically; anything marked for review waits in an Action Centre, and protected actions always do. Renters’ Rights paperwork (information sheets, Section 13 increases, pet requests) is tracked against each tenancy.
It is also unusually candid: its press page says “public review history is still limited”, and its comparison pages say what they couldn’t confirm about rivals. What its pages don’t cover is the room-by-room world: HMOs, SpareRoom, OpenRent and the shared-house WhatsApp group.
Side by side
Autoprop facts are from Autoprop’s own website, checked 24 October 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it there.
| Autoprop | Bricky Bot | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A lettings CRM and automation platform: AI that answers, books, chases and follows up | An AI lettings team of eight specialists, working in a full property CRM |
| Built for | “UK letting and estate agencies”; no landlord plan for now | HMO landlords, co-living and rent-to-rent operators, and letting agents |
| Who does the day-to-day work | The AI, inside rules the agency sets; eligible actions can run on their own, reviewed ones wait | The AI team drafts and does it; a person approves anything that goes out |
| HMOs and rooms | Not stated; its landlord guide says large HMOs suit a traditional agent | Built running HMOs: a record and tenancy per room, the licence and every certificate tracked per house |
| Enquiries and viewings | Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket and website enquiries answered and qualified; viewings booked and confirmed | Syncs every SpareRoom and OpenRent thread, drafts replies, books viewings, tracks each lead to a signed tenancy |
| Phone calls | Inbound calls answered and scheduled outbound calls, including out of hours | Doesn’t take calls |
| Talking to tenants | WhatsApp business messaging, email, website chat and the phone, logged against the record | Runs the WhatsApp groups you already have, each linked to its house, lead or contractor record |
| Offers and referencing | Offers, reference chasing and tenancy set-up | Orders referencing through your own OpenRent account and follows it to a decision; tenancy sent for e-signature after your approval; photo inventory and move-in and move-out checklists |
| Repairs | Reports triaged, contractor coordinated, tenant and landlord kept informed, chased to completion | Logs the job with photos, suggests a known fix, drafts the booking to the contractor who covers that house for your ✅ |
| Compliance | Certificate tracking, inspections, information sheets and Section 13 notices; “does not give legal advice” | Tracks every certificate on every property, opens each renewal inside its lead time, suggests the dates from the certificate PDF for you to confirm |
| Rent and money | Rent collection and arrears, landlord statements and payments (both in beta); reporting is an add-on | Never holds or moves money. Matches each line of your bank statements to rent, a cost or a payout; spots late and short rent; drafts landlord statements. Not accounting or MTD software |
| Other systems | Its own CRM; connects to Apex27; works around Reapit, Alto, Jupix, inboxes and calendars | Signs in to your own SpareRoom, OpenRent and WhatsApp accounts; doesn’t connect to Autoprop |
| Where it runs | Cloud, in the browser | Your own Mac or Mac mini; your team uses any browser or phone, and tenants use WhatsApp |
| Price | Agency Plan £500 a month + VAT; no per-user, per-property or commission fees; add-ons extra; free pilot | See pricing on brickybot.com |
By our own arithmetic from Autoprop’s published price: £500 a month plus VAT is £600 a month with VAT at 20%, or £6,000 plus VAT a year, whatever the size of the agency. That is good value for a branch with hundreds of managed tenancies and a lot for a landlord with two houses, which is why Autoprop says it doesn’t sell a landlord plan yet.
The real difference: running agency workflows vs running the houses
Take an evening at a letting agency. A Rightmove enquiry arrives at 9pm. Autoprop answers it, asks the qualifying questions, offers real viewing times from the diary and confirms the booking with the applicant, the current tenant and the negotiator. A tenant rings about a leak and the call is answered. If the agency has switched those workflows on, it all happens before morning; the rent increase above the agreed range waits in the Action Centre.
Now take an evening at a six-bed HMO. A SpareRoom enquiry comes in for room 3, and someone posts a photo of a dripping shower in the house WhatsApp group. Bricky Bot’s Enquiry Manager drafts the reply with viewing slots that suit the house, and the maintenance bot logs the leak against the house, suggests a fix and drafts the booking to the plumber who covers it. Nothing goes until you approve it with a ✅, in the app or straight from WhatsApp. In the morning, the Listings Manager has room 3’s advert ready for your own SpareRoom and OpenRent accounts.
The honest difference runs both ways. Autoprop takes phone calls, runs a website chat, handles the big portals and can act without waiting for you, which suits a busy agency. Bricky Bot doesn’t take calls and sends nothing unapproved beyond the automatic replies you switch on. If your work is an agency pipeline, Autoprop fits it better; if it is rooms, shared houses and WhatsApp, Bricky Bot does.
Who does which job
- Autoprop: portal and website enquiries, phone calls, viewings, offers, referencing, tenancy set-up, maintenance, renewals and rent reviews for an agency’s managed stock.
- Bricky Bot: room adverts, SpareRoom and OpenRent enquiries and viewings, shared-house WhatsApp groups, repairs with your own contractors, certificate renewals, rent matching and landlord statements, all prepared for a person to approve.
- Both, in different ways: answering enquiries out of hours, keeping repairs moving, tracking certificates and drafting landlord statements.
Who each is for
- Autoprop suits UK letting and estate agencies that want routine work done around the clock, especially the evening portal enquiries and phone calls, at one flat price, as their CRM or alongside it (Autoprop AI property management).
- Bricky Bot suits HMO landlords, co-living and rent-to-rent operators and letting agents who let room by room and want the day’s work taken off their plate, while keeping the final say on everything that goes out. For the wider field, see our guide to the best AI lettings software in the UK.
Using both, or switching
An agency could run both: Autoprop for its single lets and portal pipeline, and Bricky Bot for its HMO and room stock. Bricky Bot doesn’t connect to Autoprop, so each runs in its own account. If you’re moving into Bricky Bot, we move your houses, rooms, tenants and landlords, certificates and their dates, and files across. Migration is included, and you can export everything from Bricky Bot in open formats too.
If HMOs are most of what you run, see how Bricky Bot works as HMO management software, or as lettings agent software for an agency. Comparing other AI tools? Read Bricky Bot vs Latch and Bricky Bot vs Brickwise, or Bricky Bot vs COHO for HMO software and Bricky Bot vs Goodlord for agency tenancy admin.
Questions people ask
What is the main difference between Autoprop and Bricky Bot?
Both are AI that does lettings work rather than just recording it. Autoprop is built for UK letting and estate agencies: it answers portal and website enquiries and phone calls, books viewings, chases offers, references and tenancy set-up, and keeps maintenance, compliance and rent moving, as its own CRM or around the agency’s existing one. Bricky Bot is built for HMO landlords, co-living and rent-to-rent operators and letting agents who let room by room: its specialist bots work in SpareRoom and OpenRent inboxes and the house WhatsApp groups, and a person approves every message before it goes.
How much does Autoprop cost?
Autoprop publishes one Agency Plan at £500 a month plus VAT, with no per-user fees, no per-property charges and no commission on lets. Viewing automation and maintenance are included live, finance and tenancy workflows are included while they are in beta, and add-ons such as Reporting & Analytics and AI Valuation are priced separately. There is a free pilot with nothing to pay (checked 24 October 2026). Bricky Bot’s prices are on brickybot.com/#pricing.
Is Autoprop for landlords and HMOs?
Autoprop is sold to letting agencies. Its AI property management page mentions portfolio landlords, but its own guide for landlords says “Autoprop doesn’t currently sell a landlord plan”, and suggests that large HMOs and licensed stock suit an agent who deals with the council weekly. We found no HMO features on its pages. Bricky Bot was built running HMOs: a record and tenancy per room, the licence and every certificate tracked per house.
Does Autoprop send messages on its own?
It can. Where an agency switches automation on, eligible actions may run automatically. Anything marked for review, such as a rent increase above the range you set or a tenant asking to leave early, waits in its Action Centre for a person, and “protected actions” always do. Landlord statements go out when you approve them. You choose the rules per workflow.
Does Autoprop use WhatsApp? Does it answer the phone?
Yes to both, by its own pages. Autoprop messages applicants and tenants through WhatsApp’s business messaging, with the AI handling replies and handing anything unusual to your team, and it answers inbound calls and makes scheduled outbound calls, including out of hours. Bricky Bot works in the WhatsApp groups you already run, drafts each reply for your approval, and doesn’t take phone calls.
Is Autoprop a CRM?
Autoprop describes itself as a complete lettings CRM, or a layer that works around the CRM an agency already has. It says it connects and writes back to Apex27 today; for Alto it says it “does not claim a live direct Alto sync” and works around the agency’s inboxes, feeds and calendars. Bricky Bot is also a full property CRM, with the AI team working inside it.
Does Bricky Bot message tenants on its own?
Only the automatic replies you switch on, such as the out-of-hours holding reply. Every other message, advert, booking or payment the team prepares waits for a person’s approval, in the app or straight from WhatsApp.
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- Autoprop home page and FAQ (checked 24 October 2026)
- Autoprop pricing (checked 24 October 2026)
- About Autoprop (checked 24 October 2026)
- Autoprop press and company facts (checked 24 October 2026)
- Autoprop: AI property management software (checked 24 October 2026)
- Autoprop lettings CRM (checked 24 October 2026)
- Autoprop for Alto agencies (checked 24 October 2026)
- Autoprop: WhatsApp for letting agents (8 April 2026, checked 24 October 2026)
- Autoprop: AI for landlords (checked 24 October 2026)
Autoprop is a trademark of its owner. Bricky Bot isn’t affiliated with Autoprop. If anything here is out of date, email hello@brickybot.com and we’ll correct it.