Digital Disruption is a Podcast for Business leaders and Tech Entrepreneurs. Each episode of the Podcast I will bring you the stories of founders, CEO's, innovative thinkers and the people at the grass roots level inside organisations driving through digital transformation, disrupting industries with technology and driving change. Sharing their stories, lessons learned and how they are successfully leveraging technology, to disrupt and drive through change.
About your host: Chris Williams has been helping enterprises and brands to innovate and adopt emerging technologies, driving through digital transformation and change for almost 20 years. Building new revenue streams and defining cutting edge solutions to complex problems. Chris founded and built one of the first management consultancy firms dedicated to supporting organisations going through Digital Transformation, servicing clients across multiple sectors in the UK, USA and Europe.
Smart Data, Data Exchange and Orchestration: what mortgage lenders need to know now and why.
Smart data, standards, trust frameworks, data exchange and orchestration are terms every lender is hearing right now, and most are being used interchangeably when they shouldn't.
In this episode the Novus Strategy team pulls them apart, explains how they fit together, and sets out what lenders should be doing about it now.
What Smart Data actually is: verifiable, reusable data that moves securely between parties
The difference between a data exchange (the rail that moves verified data) and orchestration (the layer that coordinates it)
Where HDI (Horizontal Digital Integration) sits as the operating model that makes Smart Data usable
Why a decade of digitisation made transactions slower, not faster, and what vertical vs horizontal integration really means
The signals driving urgency now: the Data (Use and Access) Act, government-backed programmes, and property as a priority use case
How this scales, the closed vs open loop question, and the governance and monopoly risks worth watching
Why none of the AI being sold to lenders works without the data foundations underneath it
Fundamentally, stop guessing where your friction sits and ask us about Pathfinder, our mortgage journey simulator, and quantify the highest-value moves before you commit a pound of investment.
If you sit in transformation, product or customer journey, this is the context behind the questions lenders keep bringing us.
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10 Jun 2026
The First Smart Property Data Trust Framework Test: Proving It Works.
The UK takes around 134 days to complete a home purchase, and roughly a third of sales fall through. The problem isn't technology. It's data: manual, duplicated, non-portable, non-trusted data.
In this episode of the Digital Disruption Podcast, Claire Van der Zant, Chief Exec of Novus Strategy, is joined by three organisations who have just proved a different model works. The Smart Property Data Trust Framework Sandbox has run its first successful test, moving data between organisations with provenance and trust intact, rather than recreating it from scratch at every organisational boundary.
Our guests:
Stephen Ward, Director of Strategy and External Relations at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC)
Eddie Davies, Deputy Director for PropTech and Platform Integration at HM Land Registry
Kieran Witt, Founder of Kotini
What we cover:
What actually moved in the sandbox, and how data travelled with a signature and a verifiable key
Why you no longer need to trust the company sending the data, only the framework underpinning it
The "innovation tax" firms pay to access data, and what falls away once it's removed
"Speed to confidence": why certainty earlier in the transaction matters more than raw speed
What changes for lenders, including the thousands of identity mismatches that quietly derail automation
What's left to solve: governance, agreed standards, and getting the whole market to move together
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22 Dec 2025
2025 Changed Everything: What Home Buying & Selling Must Do Next
In this end of year edition of the Digital Disruption podcast, hosted by Claire Van der Zant, Chris Williams and Pete Gatenby, we look back at a pivotal year for the home buying and selling sector and share what it means for the road ahead.
From the biggest shifts of 2025 to the smart moves organisations need to make in 2026, it's a forward-looking conversation you won't want to miss.
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