Property management has always been demanding work. Tempest was created by people who knew the pressure first-hand and wanted the tools to reduce it, rather than add to it.
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Property experience, engineering and operations, working together on the everyday challenges of property management.
CO-FOUNDER · CEO
Chief Executive Officer
A chartered surveyor and former Chair of ARMA (the Association of Residential Managing Agents), with over 30 years’ experience in residential property management. Tony brings an industry-wide perspective to Tempest, helping shape its direction around the challenges facing property professionals and the communities they serve.
Connect on LinkedIn with Tony Hymers (opens in a new tab)CO-FOUNDER · CTO
Chief Technology Officer
A former CTO of a Nasdaq-listed technology company, with expertise in software engineering and data governance. Calvin leads Tempest’s technical development, connecting AI conversations with the operational systems, records and workflows behind each property.
CO-FOUNDER · COO
Chief Operating Officer
Founding Director of CIAR Property Services, with over 20 years’ experience in London property management, maintenance and service operations. Lee brings first-hand knowledge of running property services, shaping Tempest around the practical needs of teams and the customers they serve.
Connect on LinkedIn with Lee Boquan (opens in a new tab)Property management has always been demanding work. But somewhere along the way, the tools meant to help started adding to the pressure.
Another system to learn. Another integration promised but delayed. A key person leaves and suddenly no one knows where anything is. A large contract is won and the celebration is followed immediately by the weight of onboarding it. Underneath all of it is the same question from residents that was answered last week, and the week before.
We did not set out to build another platform. We set out to solve a problem we knew too well: property teams that are skilled, experienced and motivated, but constantly outrun by the volume and fragmentation of the work.
Tempest is built as a native AI layer, not a rigid system retrofitted with AI features. It reads context, adapts to how your team works and responds to the actual pattern of property management rather than forcing that work into predefined fields and workflows.
It is flexible enough to handle the unstructured reality of the job, intuitive enough that a new team member can use it from day one, and connected enough to work alongside the systems you already have rather than replacing them. Tempest started from that frustration: built by people who have done this work, not just observed it.
Tempest’s founders combine property expertise, technology leadership and practical operations. Tony Hymers is a chartered surveyor and former Chair of ARMA with over 30 years in residential property management. Calvin Liu is a former CTO of a Nasdaq-listed technology company, with expertise in software engineering and data governance. Lee Boquan has over 20 years’ experience in London property management, maintenance and service operations.
We believe technology should make the work easier to understand, not harder to oversee. Clear permissions, accessible records, review points and honest limits matter as much as a useful answer.
Tempest continues to deepen the connection between resident service, property operations and management insight. Each new workflow must remain practical, accountable and clear about the source records, permissions and human decisions involved.
LET’S MAKE THE EVERYDAY WORK BETTER
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