About Senso
Senso makes a home’s accessibility legible before you go and see it. It is built and run in the UK by one person, and this page says who, what the tool actually does, and what it deliberately does not claim to do.
What Senso is
Senso is an accessibility intelligence platform for property seekers — the EPC equivalent for accessibility. Paste a Rightmove, Zoopla or OnTheMarket link for a home you are considering. Senso reads the listing’s photos and floorplan and tells you, in plain English, whether the entrance is step-free, whether the bathroom would work, and whether day-to-day living could stay on one level. It usually takes under five minutes.
It is free to use, and you do not need an account to try it. There is more on how we think about all of this on the Senso blog.
Who Senso is for
Anyone for whom the layout of a home matters — and that is a far wider group than the word “accessible” usually suggests.
- People moving home. Families checking a property for a parent, people whose own needs have changed after an injury or a diagnosis, and people simply planning for the years ahead. Senso bakes accessibility into the property search instead of leaving it to the viewing.
- People staying put. Adaptability triage — how far your current home could be adapted, and what a Disabled Facilities Grant might cover — is in development and not open to the public yet.
- Occupational therapists and home improvement agency caseworkers. Senso pre-screens a property so a professional visit can focus on the complex clinical assessment. It is a tool for practitioners, never a replacement for one.
How it works, and what it cannot do
Senso works from what the estate agent has already published: the listing photos and the floorplan. An AI vision model checks those against criteria anchored on Building Regulations Approved Document M (the M4(2) “accessible and adaptable” category) and the Lifetime Homes standard — the same language UK home improvement agencies use when they assess a house. Every finding carries a confidence level, so you can see how much weight it deserves.
That also sets the limits, and we would rather state them here than bury them. Senso is not a structural survey. It is not an occupational therapy home visit. It can only see what the photos show, so where the evidence is not there it says so instead of guessing — an honest “insufficient evidence” is more useful to you than invented confidence. Treat it as a fast first filter that tells you what to check and what to ask, before you spend a morning on a viewing.
See a real report
Two of the reports Senso has produced are public, and you can open either one without an account. Neither is a clean pass. One property has partial step-free access; the other has none. In both, the photos were not enough to confirm whether the bathroom is accessible, and the report says so.
Ronald Avenue, West Ham, E15
Partial step-free accessUnconfirmed accessible bathroomBranch Road, Limehouse, E14
No step-free accessUnconfirmed accessible bathroom
Both reports carry the same line: “Some key details couldn’t be confirmed from photos alone.” That is the limit described above, stated inside the product rather than only in the marketing — a report tells you what the evidence supports and where a viewing still has to do the work. These two are here as examples of Senso’s output. They are not recommendations, and nothing here endorses either property.
The founder
Karthikan Yogarajah
Founder
Karthikan Yogarajah — Karthik to most people — is Senso’s founder. He has spent several years as a user researcher in the NHS, working to understand what disabled people and older people actually need from services. One thing came up in almost every project: housing.
Whether someone could live independently usually came down to whether their home worked for their body — doorways, stairs, bathrooms, kitchens. There was no good way to check any of that from a property listing, so he started building one. He builds Senso solo, and reads everything sent to support@wearesenso.com.
Getting in touch
Senso is run from Rainham in Essex. The quickest way to reach us is support@wearesenso.com, which goes straight to Karthik. The full postal address is at the bottom of every page.
Occupational therapists, home improvement agency caseworkers and estate agents are welcome to use Senso the same way anyone else does — it is free, and there is nothing to sign. If you have feedback on whether it fits how you actually work, that is the same address.