Consent on both sides
Nobody is introduced until both have agreed. Your details are never shared on the chance of interest.
About
Introductions, made by people who know both sides.
We do not run a database and we do not sell lists. Every name we put forward is someone we know, and every introduction is one we would stand behind.
- The range we work in
- £100k–£1m
- For a first response
- 48h
- Names on a shortlist, not twenty
- 2–3
- Our fee, agreed in writing
- 3–5%
Our story
A relationship business, run like one.
We are an introductions business, and nothing more complicated than that. We spend our time building and maintaining relationships across Real Estate, Trade & Commodities and Fashion & Consumer, in the UK and the UAE — so that when someone needs a connection, we already know whether we have it.
That is a slower way to work than running a database, and it is the only way the introduction is worth anything. A name we have not spoken to is not a contact; it is a guess with a phone number attached.
Astraessa was founded in 2026 on that idea: that the most valuable thing an introducer can offer is judgement about who should meet — and the discipline to say so only when it is true.
What we believe
We would rather make two introductions that land than ten that fill a report.
How we work
Four commitments behind every introduction.
Set down plainly, so you can hold us to them.
Introduced, not inserted
When an adviser brings us a client, the relationship stays theirs. We work alongside it, never around it.
A shortlist, never a list
Two or three people who have already said they are interested. Never a spreadsheet of names.
An honest no, early
If our network is wrong for what you need, you hear it in the first conversation, not the fourth.
The difference
Not every introducer works this way.
What changes when introductions are made by relationship rather than by volume.
| The usual approach | How we work | |
|---|---|---|
| Where names come from | Databases, purchased lists and scraped contacts. | People we know and have spoken to. Nothing bought, nothing scraped. |
| What you receive | A long list of names, and a deck sent to all of them. | Two or three named counterparts, each already interested in principle. |
| Your details | Circulated widely, often before you have agreed. | Shared with no one until you have seen who, and said yes. |
| Fit | Any deal, at any size, to keep the pipeline full. | £100k–£1m in our sectors — and a straight answer when it is not. |
| Fees | Retainers and listing fees, whatever the outcome. | 3–5%, agreed in writing, with the balance only on completion. |
| After the introduction | Pressure to proceed, and services bolted on. | The parties decide independently. We step back. |
Where we work
Two markets, properly.
Our relationships are deepest where we spend our time: London and Dubai, with reach across the GCC and into selected international markets.
United Kingdom
London
Capital and advisory
Private investors, family offices and the advisers around them, alongside the UK developers and businesses we introduce.
- Real estate
- Private capital
- Advisers
United Arab Emirates
Dubai
Gulf partners and capital
Family offices, trading houses and strategic partners across the UAE and the wider GCC, and businesses looking towards the UK.
- Trade & commodities
- Family offices
- Market entry