About huq

Helping businesses understand places, people & performance.

We turn complex location and behavioural data into clear, actionable intelligence helping brands make smarter decisions with confidence. From retail performance to consumer movement insights, we help organisations understand what is happening on the ground, in real time.

Our Story

Built around real world intelligence.

We started with a simple idea businesses shouldn't have to rely on outdated reports and assumptions to understand how places perform.

Today, we help 300s + organisations uncover meaningful insights from real world movement and behavioural data, enabling smarter retail, property, and location-based decisions.

Core capability

Predictable, conventional, usable on day one.

Delivery infrastructure designed to be immediately usable by your data engineers no bespoke glue code.

2014

Founded

Three people in jackets looking at a map outdoors, with two holding coffee cups in a city setting.

It started with finding the good spots

Our founders were the friends everyone asked for the best pub, the right bar, the restaurant worth the detour. So they built an app to surface personalised places people loved.

2015

Pivoted

Person sitting with laptop, holding a sheet with charts, talking on a phone.

The real value was underneath.

The magic wasn't the app, it was the underlying technology and data that understood how people move. So in 2015 we pivoted to put it to work as an alternative data provider.

2015-24

The Craft

Two coworkers review data charts on laptop and monitors in an office with large windows.

Learning to understand the world.

A decade spent finding the most rigorous way to measure and validate real-world behaviour, and earning the trust of the teams who rely on in.

2025

The platform

Laptop displaying data charts and graphs on desk with papers, with blurred people talking in background.

We made it self-serve.

In 2025 we launched our SaaS platform, putting validated intelligence directly in the hands of the people making location decisions, no data team required.

Get started

huq is your virtual property consultant, making location insights easy to understand for the business professionals who rely on making the right location decisions.

Mission & Vision

What we're building, and why.

Our Mission

Confident location decisions, built on accessible real-time intelligence.

To help businesses make confident location decisions through accessible, real-time intelligence and behavioural insights.

Our Vision

The leading platform for understanding how people interact with places.

To become the leading platform for understanding how people interact with places, cities, and commercial environments across the modern world.

By the numbers

Trusted by teams making smarter location decisions.

300+
Organisations
Trusted by retail leaders, landlords and property teams.
22
Countries
Supporting location decisions across global markets
1000+
Location test per country
Supporting smarter expansion decisions.
10+ years
longest running market
Over a decade of behavioural market insights.
Use Cases

Questions businesses answer with huq

From regeneration planning to town-centre recovery, huq helps councils understand how places evolve in the real world.

Real-time insights

Access live location intelligence instead of relying on static historical reports.

Clear visual analytics

Complex data transformed into intuitive dashboards and easy to understand insights.

Retail & location expertise

Purpose-built intelligence designed for retail, property, and place based strategy teams.

Decision confidence

Reduce uncertainty with data backed
recommendations and measurable insights.

Behavioural understanding

Go beyond demographics with real world movement and engagement patterns.

Scalable intelligence

From single locations to nationwide analysis, our platform grows with your business.

What we do

Turning data into business clarity.

We help organisations understand the real world dynamics behind every location decision and the strategic moves those dynamics enable.

We help businesses understand

Where demand is growing

How locations are performing

How people move through environments

Which opportunities drive long-term growth

Our insights support

Retail expansion

Urban planning

Property strategy

Investment decisions

Consumer behaviour analysis

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understand

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intelligence for you team