Like all the best products, SeracTech was initially built as a solution to our own problem: too many hours spent searching across dozens of local authority planning systems. We quickly realised that many others shared our frustrations.
Our Vision Is to be the number one go to for everything construction and property; to build a data driven, all-encompassing platform that facilitates the ease of connection and communication between stakeholders.
Ways of working are forever changing, we innovate and invent these processes. We are constantly questioning the ways in which the industry works and innovating solutions to streamline processes.
We strive to obsess over ensuring our customers succeed. If we ensure our customers do well, we all do well. Simple.
We have only just got started and there is plenty more to be done. We are passionate about reshaping the norms whilst developing new products and that is what drives us.
We know that team work makes the dream work. That's why we hire the best talent to join our team. Passion, drive, collaboration and trust are key attributes to our culture.
Brandon Johnson has worked in a variety of roles since 2015. In 2015, they were the Founding Director of hiregopro.co.uk, where they developed brand strategy, marketing strategy, and general website editorial maintenance. In 2016, they were a Management Intern at Barclays, where they gained an understanding of how a global Digital and Design capability operates within a large, complex financial institution. In 2018, they were a Summer Intern at Tradition Securities and Futures, where they updated the currency field in the TraditionDATA directory of instruments and completed business research on the top leading banking clients. From 2017 to 2020, they were the Director of Serac Homes, a property development firm they founded. During this same time period, they were also the CEO of Serac Technologies, an intermediate SAAS software house focusing on providing businesses within the property & construction industry with appropriate packages that automate tasks handling data. In 2020, they became the CEO of 7 Ace Capital, a privately held, early stage investment fund that specializes in trading equity-based derivatives and other relatively liquid assets.Brandon Johnson attended Mill Hill School Foundation from 2015 to 2018. Brandon then went on to pursue a Business Management BSC at King's College London, specializing in Accounting and Business/Management, which they completed in 2021.
Brandon Johnson – The Story of a Young EntrepreneurBased in North West London, Johnson showed a passion for business and entrepreneurship from a very young age. His first opportunity came aged 12 after visiting a WWII memorabilia fair with his father and buying his first silver bullion coin. After buying and selling bullion coins from people all over the world, he had made a £10,000 profit by the age of 13.Aged 14, he saw a video online called ‘Never Wet’ which showed clothes that would not get stained when they had food or materials poured on them. Over the course of the year, Johnson made over a 100% selling Never Wet packages through Amazon and eBay.Later that year, he imported a 1967 230SL Mercedes and sold it to a private buyer.Aged 15 and 16, he created an irrigation sprinkler system that was first used on his own garden before being hired to do the same for hundreds of homes in his area, and areas the size of football pitches.
At 17, he was inspired by his neighbour who sold the bottom of their garden to a property developer and wondered if he could do the same. He wrote to over 500 people in London, asking if they had garden plots of unused areas that could be used for property development. After getting 2 responses, he spend the next 18 months building up two luxury properties, now available for sale in Watford at £800,000 each.Johnson partnered with another property developer to help raise the funds for the project, but early on was offered over £100,000 by an investor to buy the planning permission, whilst the area was still just a plot of land. The entrepreneur declined and build up the property himself – and currently has new properties in the pipeline.
His endeavours were quickly picked up by the press and last year Johnson featured on The BBC One Show as a budding entrepreneur.Our Interview with Brandon JohnsonThe TechRound team went to meet Brandon on one of his building sites, and we were instantly impressed with his level of maturity and attention for detail.It is clear to see that Brandon thinks like an entrepreneur, something that is backed up by the vast amounts of business books, magazines and news that he consumes on a daily basis. He explained that ‘he regularly stays up reading until the early hours of the morning,’ whilst still putting time aside for the gym, seeing friends and spending time with his grandparents.
Brandon shows a passion for learning and overcoming problems, and things that would frighten most young people and even experienced entrepreneurs including the complexities of planning permission, property contracts, import duties and more.For someone so switched on from a young age, Johnson has the name, charisma and confidence of someone who will soon become one of the UK’s most successful and well-known entrepreneurs, similar to Peter Jones, Richard Reed and Mark Pearson.What does the future hold for Johnson? With an interest in ethical sustainability, he hints at the potential of doing something to help the planet too, but also has dreams of running a large team, where people are passionate about what they do. He believes his work in property is not quite done yet and has aspirations to leave his “footprint on the London skyline” by adding his very own skyscraper to the city, claiming “if someone else can put a building like that up there, why can’t I?”