Decision support · Human-led · Audit-ready

Match households to suitable temporary accommodation — faster, with full officer oversight.

Jigsaw TA Allocation AI helps councils, housing associations, insurers and emergency accommodation teams produce officer-ready shortlists in minutes — with transparent scoring, risk flags, cost visibility and a defensible audit trail.

Built for officers, not to replace officers.

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scoring criteria
100%
officer-led decisions
UK
GDPR-aligned design
Household
HH-2025-01007 · Family with children
High risk
92
Beacon Family Homes · 2-bed flat
Hackney · £340/wk · step-free · lift
Recommended
Why this match: matches the 2-bedroom need; sits in a preferred borough; available 6 days before deadline; weekly cost within budget cap; 0.7 miles from named school; provider rating 4.8/5. Officer review still required — affordability is within 5% of cap.
The problem

Temporary accommodation pressure is rising — and decisions still have to be defensible.

TA spend is at record highs
Local authorities are spending hundreds of millions on temporary accommodation. Cost visibility is patchy.
Officer time is scarce
Caseworkers manually filter spreadsheets, provider lists and inboxes to find suitable matches.
Decisions must be defensible
Statutory rigour, safeguarding, accessibility and audit are non-negotiable — especially after a complaint.
Decant programmes are complex
Cladding remediation, planned maintenance and insurance moves all need coordinated, resident-sensitive placements.
Use cases

One platform across temporary accommodation, decants and emergency moves.

Local authority TA allocation

Reduce time-to-shortlist for homelessness duty placements while preserving statutory rigour and audit trails.

Housing association decants

Match residents to suitable decant accommodation respecting tenancy continuity, accessibility and school anchors.

Planned maintenance relocation

Coordinate phased moves with contractor schedules and accommodation availability windows.

Insurance emergency accommodation

Place households after fire, flood or escape-of-water claims with cost visibility and provider compliance tracking.

How it works

Transparent scoring. Officer oversight. Audit-ready by default.

Transparent AI scoring

Every property is scored against the household using nine weighted criteria. No black boxes — the breakdown is visible.

Human-in-the-loop

Officers always approve, reject, request review or escalate. AI never auto-allocates.

Audit-ready trail

Every recommendation, override and decision is logged with reason, user, role and timestamp.

Risk & safeguarding flags

Confidential addresses, accessibility, affordability and statutory limits surface as clear, calm warnings.

Cost visibility

See weekly cost, variance vs budget cap and placement-type breakdown across your portfolio.

Procurement-ready

A procurement pack covers DPIA, governance, RBAC, retention and pilot structure out of the box.

The matching engine

Three layers. Fully explainable.

  1. 1
    Hard rule filters

    Bedroom need, max occupancy, accessibility, excluded boroughs, availability, compliance status and budget cap.

  2. 2
    Weighted scoring (0–100)

    Nine criteria including bedroom suitability, location, availability, affordability, accessibility, compliance, provider reliability, continuity and risk.

  3. 3
    Plain-English explanation

    Every recommendation comes with reasons, warnings, missing-data notes and an officer review summary.

Weighted criteria
Bedroom suitability20%
Location suitability15%
Availability urgency15%
Affordability15%
Accessibility fit10%
Compliance status10%
Provider reliability5%
School / medical continuity5%
Risk reduction5%
Designed for UK GDPR-aligned processing
Controller / processor model. DPIA support. Data minimisation by default.
Audit-ready trail
Every recommendation, override and decision logged with user, role, timestamp and reason.
Designed for ISO-aligned security controls
No certifications claimed. Built with procurement-ready security principles.
FAQs

Answers for officers, procurement and DPOs.

What is Jigsaw TA Allocation AI?+

Jigsaw TA Allocation AI (also called Jigsaw HousingMatch AI) is an officer-facing decision-support platform for temporary accommodation allocation, emergency decant matching and planned maintenance relocation. It is owned by Jigsaw Conferences Ltd, a UK B2B venue finding and emergency accommodation specialist. The platform recommends suitable temporary accommodation, explains the reasoning, flags risk and produces officer-ready summaries. Housing officers remain responsible for the final decision.

Does the AI make final housing decisions?+

No. The platform is decision-support only. It recommends, scores, explains and flags risk. Authorised housing officers always make the final allocation decision. Every recommendation and every officer action is logged to an audit trail. The system is designed to support compliance with UK GDPR Article 22 expectations around solely automated decisions affecting individuals.

How does the matching engine work?+

A three-layer engine. First, hard rule filters exclude any property that fails non-negotiable requirements (bedroom need, accessibility, excluded boroughs, availability, compliance, budget). Second, remaining properties are scored 0–100 using nine weighted criteria including bedroom suitability, location, availability urgency, affordability, accessibility, compliance, provider reliability, school/medical continuity and risk reduction. Third, a plain-English explanation is produced for every recommendation.

How does Jigsaw protect resident data?+

The platform is designed for UK GDPR-aligned processing. Local authorities and housing associations remain the Controller; Jigsaw acts as Processor where processing resident data on documented instructions. The platform supports DPIA documentation, role-based access, audit logging, data minimisation and retention controls. It is designed to support ISO-aligned security controls. No certifications are claimed unless evidenced.

Which organisations is this for?+

Local authority homelessness and TA teams, housing associations running decant programmes, contractors managing planned maintenance relocation, insurers placing households after fire or flood damage, and emergency accommodation teams supporting cladding remediation and large-scale resident moves.

Is the demo using real data?+

No. The demo uses synthetic, fabricated data only. No real personal data, supplier contact details or resident records appear anywhere in the demo platform. Production deployments would only process real data after a DPIA is signed off by the Controller and an appropriate processing agreement is in place.

See the working demo — with synthetic data.

Open the officer console, run an AI shortlist, review the explanation and approve a recommendation — every action logged to the audit trail.