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For Brokers: Keep Your Fee or Refer — Two Ways to Earn With Assesr

Brokers can use Assesr two ways: keep your own fee and use Assesr to package and place deals faster, or refer a deal and earn commission on drawdown. Both are governed by a simple Broker Agreement.

How do brokers earn with Assesr?

Brokers can use Assesr two ways: keep your own fee and use Assesr to package and place deals faster, or refer a deal to Assesr and earn commission on drawdown. Both routes are governed by a simple Broker Agreement, and both pay out only when a deal completes. Assesr is not built to replace brokers — it is built to give them a faster engine and a second way to earn. See the brokers page for the full picture.

Route one: keep your fee, use Assesr as your engine

If you want to keep your client relationship and your fee, you can. Use Assesr to do the heavy lifting: run your deal through the tailored intake, get a lender-ready credit paper in about 60 seconds, and place it against mandate-matched specialist lenders. You still own the client, you still charge your fee, and Assesr simply replaces the hours you would otherwise spend packaging and shopping the deal around. It is like hiring an analyst who works in seconds.

For brokers this is the clearest efficiency win. The packaging and mandate-matching — the parts that eat your time — are handled, so you can carry more deals without more hours. See what a credit paper is for what you would otherwise be writing by hand.

Route two: refer and earn on drawdown

Sometimes a deal is not one you want to run yourself — it is outside your specialism, too small to be worth your time, or simply more than your pipeline can handle. Instead of turning it away, refer it to Assesr and earn commission on drawdown. Assesr packages and places it, the client gets funded, and you earn on completion without doing the work. It turns deals you would have declined into income.

The Broker Agreement

Both routes run under a simple Broker Agreement. It includes two key things:

  • An authority to act. Confirming you have the authority to bring the deal.
  • A client-data-consent warranty. Confirming the client has consented to their data being used to package and place the deal.

These protect everyone — the client, the broker, and Assesr — and make sure data is handled with proper consent. It is deliberately lightweight so you can get moving quickly.

When do brokers get paid?

On drawdown — the point at which the finance completes and funds are released. You do not earn on deals that fall through, which keeps everyone's incentives pointed at the same thing: getting deals actually funded. This mirrors the 0.5% Assesr Fee for borrowers, which is also payable on drawdown only — see how the Assesr fee works.

Why would a broker use an AI broker at all?

It is a fair question. The answer is that the two are not in competition for the same job. Assesr is fastest and cheapest at the structured, repeatable core of broking — packaging and mandate-matching. Brokers add value through relationships, judgement on unusual deals, and client trust. Combining them means you keep what only a human can do and hand off what software does better. For the fuller argument, see AI broker vs traditional broker.

What about lenders and contact protection?

Whichever route you use, Assesr protects the lender side: deals are mandate-matched, lenders are contact-protected, and there is no leakage of their details. That is part of why lenders engage with Assesr-packaged deals — they get relevant, complete papers without exposing their panel. See how mandate-matching works.

Getting started as a broker

Head to the brokers page, sign the Broker Agreement, and choose your route on a deal-by-deal basis — keep your fee on the deals you want to run, refer the ones you do not. There is no cost to submit and nothing to pay unless a deal completes. Questions can go to hello@assesr.com.

Frequently asked questions

How do brokers earn with Assesr?

Two ways: keep your own fee and use Assesr to package and place deals faster, or refer a deal to Assesr and earn commission on drawdown. Both are governed by a Broker Agreement.

Does Assesr replace brokers?

No. Assesr gives brokers tools and a referral route. You can keep your client relationship and fee while using Assesr to do the packaging and placement, or hand a deal over and earn on completion.

What is the Broker Agreement?

A simple agreement brokers sign that includes an authority to act and a client-data-consent warranty, so client data is handled with proper consent.

When do brokers get paid?

On drawdown — the point at which the finance completes. There is no earning on deals that do not complete, which keeps incentives aligned with getting deals funded.

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