Run NetworkUX as your business. No telecoms background needed.
NetworkUX is a proven mobile-coverage and performance measurement platform. The kit has been deployed across multi-week council programmes, a regulator-commissioned rail pilot and a series of championship, festival and station surveys — operated by people from a wide mix of backgrounds, with no telecoms training required. The low operator skill bar is the design point, not an afterthought. The kit is country-agnostic. The partner programme is launching now, and Inakalum provides full remote support to every partner from day one.
A proven platform. A brand-new partner programme.
NetworkUX is itself well-established: 20+ deployments across four countries since 2023, including contract work for Ofcom, multi-week programmes with three of England’s largest councils, a six-month combined-authority rollout in the Tees Valley, and a small commission from the City of Barcelona’s digital team. The platform is operational, the methodology is settled, and the deliverables have already shipped to regulator-grade buyers.
The partner programme, however, is brand new. Inakalum has run every deployment to date with directly-contracted local operatives. We’re now opening up a partner model for the first time — for independent consultants, recently-retired professionals and small connectivity firms who want to run NetworkUX as their own business. That makes this the early-adopter window: the platform is proven, the partner seats aren’t yet taken, and the first cohort gets first pick of geographies and buyer relationships.
A platform proven in production — by operators who don’t need a telecoms background to run it.
Most mobile-measurement businesses can’t be franchised because they’re built around specialist engineering skills, country-specific equipment and regulator relationships that don’t travel. NetworkUX was designed the opposite way. Same kit anywhere — just swap the SIMs for local ones. Same dashboards, same deliverables. The operator skill bar is deliberately low: anyone comfortable with an Android phone can run the kit, with Inakalum support a call away. The platform is the product. The partner brings the local presence, the relationships, and the commercial instinct.
Same hardware works in any territory. Swap the SIMs. Use local MNOs. Methodology and outputs are identical from London to Barcelona.
If you can use an Android phone, you can run a NetworkUX kit. No telecoms certification required, onboarding takes hours, not days or weeks, and Inakalum’s technical team is a call away whenever you need support.
EV operators, neutral hosts, venues, councils & BIDs, regulators. Diverse revenue lines — not a single-customer bet.
Ofcom, Westminster, Manchester, Tees Valley, The Open, Liverpool Street, Fleadh, St Patrick’s. You inherit the credibility.
Every survey can render as a public coverage checker — the most granular CC in the UK (10 m hexagons vs Ofcom’s 50–100 m). Buyers can see — and share — what you produced.
Two ways NetworkUX work fits into your week.
A targeted survey is a full working day. A fleet-hosted survey is forty-five minutes before the fleet leaves the depot. We expect most partner books to mix both — active project income at the top end, passive recurring data work paying steadily underneath.
A full working day. Project-based fees.
Mix of planning and on-the-ground capture — on foot, by bike, or in a vehicle. Commissioned by clients with specific questions about specific areas. EV charge-point site shortlists, neutral-host capacity hunts, BID footprint audits, pre-event site readiness. Premium per-engagement work that fits a consultant’s day rate.
Forty-five minutes at the depot. Recurring contracts.
Battery rotation, vehicle reassignment with the depot manager, occasional kit swaps. The kit does the surveying while the fleet does its normal work. Multiple fleet contracts — waste, parks, highways, private logistics — can stack on the same morning rota. This is the model behind Westminster, Manchester and the Tees Valley.
Four commercial buyer markets. EV leads the short-to-medium term.
Each of the markets below has live commercial activity, identified buyers, and a NetworkUX case study or buyer-page to back the pitch. Partners typically lead with one or two of these and add the others as the book matures. Regulator work is structurally a fifth market — commissioned bilaterally rather than from the open market — and partners can co-bid where it makes sense.
EV charge-point operators
Roughly two-thirds of UK Type-2 chargers sit in mobile not-spots that block the payment-and-status backhaul. Governments across the UK, EU, North America and Asia are pushing aggressive EV-infrastructure rollout targets. Every CPO has hundreds of candidate sites; every site is a potential survey. Surveying for a few hundred pounds prevents the operator wasting thousands on a charger that can’t talk to the network. High-volume, repeating-buyer niche — and the same problem exists in every EV-rollout country.
See the EV buyer pageNeutral host infrastructure providers
Neutral hosts and small-cell operators need independent measurement to find high-footfall areas with capacity problems — the exact locations where their infrastructure pays back. Partner becomes their independent measurement arm. Commercial decisions get built on the data. Typically a small number of high-value engagements per year, often with retainer arrangements once trust is established.
See the mobile infrastructure buyer pageVenues and events
Pre, during and post-event surveys at festivals, championships, stadiums and major civic events. The honest answer to “how did the network do on the day?” Once you’re in with an organiser, the work tends to repeat year after year. The existing case-study library — The Open, Fleadh, St Patrick’s, Liverpool Street — does the credibility lifting from day one.
See the venues & events buyer pageCouncils, BIDs and place partnerships
The bin-lorry model. Multi-week or multi-month programmes hosted on waste, parks, highways or other municipal fleets. Recurring contracts at borough, city or combined-authority scale. The Westminster, Manchester and Tees Valley case studies are the playbook — same kit, same methodology, applied to your local area or your local council relationships.
See the local-authority buyer pageFive kinds of partner we’re actively talking to.
You don’t need a telecoms background — you need commercial instinct, local relationships, and the discipline to run a small business well. If one of the profiles below describes you, get in touch.
The independent consultant
Already selling to councils, BIDs, transport authorities or built-environment clients. NetworkUX adds a high-margin product line you attach to existing engagements — or stand up as a service on its own.
The recently-retired professional
Operational experience in local government, the built environment, retail, estates or property. Looking for an active “be your own boss” portfolio business with a tangible deliverable and modest startup cost.
The career-changer
Leaving corporate life for portfolio work. Smart-city, EV, property-tech or transport-tech adjacency particularly welcome. NetworkUX gives you a defensible niche from day one rather than starting from scratch.
The small consultancy
Two or three people already offering digital-infrastructure, smart-place or built-environment advisory services. Add NetworkUX as a paid measurement product line that brings recurring revenue alongside your project work.
The engineering or SI firm
Existing field-services capability or a network of municipal / commercial accounts. Best fit for the Territory Partner route — geographic exclusivity, multi-kit programmes, sub-licensing rights, master-franchise economics.
Start lean, or scale to a territory.
We expect almost every partner to start as a Solo Operator. Some will stay there indefinitely — for the freedom of running a one-person business. Others will build a book and grow into a Territory Partner agreement with geographic exclusivity, sub-licensing rights and master-franchise economics.
Solo Operator
Lean start. Modest investment. Earning from week one.
- Fast onboarding, modest investment
- Certification training — no telecoms background required
- Kit configured and ready on day one
- Ongoing remote technical support
- Buyer playbooks for each market
Best fit for archetypes 1–4 above.
Territory Partner
Geographic exclusivity. Multi-kit programmes. Master-franchise economics.
- Defined territory rights
- Sub-licensing to local operators in your area
- Multi-kit programmes (fleet + project mix)
- Co-bidding rights on regulator and combined-authority RFPs
- Joint go-to-market on lighthouse opportunities
Best fit for archetype 5, or solo operators ready to grow into a programme business.
Everything the platform side of the business should provide. So you can focus on the local market.
The kit
Configured, battery-managed, ready to deploy. Same hardware running today in council fleets across the UK.
Certification training
Designed for partners without telecoms backgrounds. If you can use an Android phone, you can pass it.
Buyer playbooks
Sales-ready guidance for EV operators, neutral hosts, venues, councils and BIDs. Who buys, why they buy, how to pitch.
The Inakalum brand
Plus the full case-study library — Ofcom, Manchester, Westminster, Tees Valley, The Open — as your credibility from day one.
Remote technical support
Direct access to the team that built the platform. We unblock you fast.
Partner dashboard
Manage your kits, your surveys and your clients in one place. The same dashboard Inakalum runs internally.
From first call to first survey in roughly six weeks.
Introductory call
Thirty minutes, no obligation. You tell us what you’re thinking; we tell you what’s actually involved. If it’s a fit on both sides, we go to step two.
Territory readiness review
We look at your local market with you. Which buyers are commissioning surveys today? What’s the connectivity story in your area that nobody’s yet told? What partnerships and warm introductions can you bring?
Pilot with kit on the ground
Kit deployed, certification completed, first surveys running. You’re earning while you’re learning. The pilot becomes the foundation of a long-term Solo Operator or Territory Partner agreement.
Apply to become a NetworkUX partner.
A thirty-minute introductory call — no obligation. We’ll listen to where you’re coming from, share the realistic shape of what’s involved, and if we both want a second conversation, we’ll set one up.