Why We Started London Escorts VIP

I get asked, sometimes, why I started this agency in the first place. It's a fair question, and I don't think I've ever answered it the same way twice.

Where this started

Before London Escorts VIP, I spent years on the other side of London's hospitality and private-client world, and you learn quickly there that discretion isn't an add-on to the job, it's most of what the job actually is. People with full, complicated, high-visibility lives don't want more noise in their evening, they want someone who already understands the room without being told twice. I kept running into agencies that could manage the first part fine but never really got the second, and at some point that turned from something I noticed into something I wanted to try building myself.

We launched sixteen years ago now, in 2010, with about ten companions, people I'd met individually rather than recruited off a listing. Most of that first year had less to do with clients than with getting the unglamorous stuff right, how bookings got confirmed, how fast someone actually answered a message, what happened when plans changed with no warning. A lot of it is, honestly, still the same list of concerns today, just running at a bigger scale than it used to.

What "properly" actually means to us

A confirmed booking is a confirmed booking. If something changes, you hear about it before you're standing somewhere waiting. Messages get answered like a person is on the other end, because one is.

Most people who apply to join don't make it through, closer to eight out of ten. Partly that's about character, partly it's practical: we're trying to match specific evenings, not fill a roster, so a companion who's brilliant but doesn't fit anything we actually get asked for isn't much use to anyone. We're also careful about privacy, sometimes to a fault, and client information gets treated the way I'd want mine treated. When we publish anything about our own booking data, like the market report on this site, it's aggregated to the point where no individual evening could be picked back out of it.

A word on who we work with

Our companions aren't a catalogue. They're people we've met and spoken with at length, and a handful have been with us since close to the beginning, which says more about how we treat people than any policy page could. What a few of them have mentioned, more than once, is that it's the small stuff that keeps them here: hearing about a change before it happens, not being swapped in as whoever's free that night.

I'm not entirely sure clients notice the same thing from their side, though I'd guess it comes through somewhere, even if nobody's putting a name to it.

Why we still do this

Sixteen years in, the market has shifted more than I expected it would when we started, and there's a full report on this site if you want the actual numbers from the last three of those years. The reason I started this hasn't moved along with it, though. People deserve an evening that fits them, run by people who take it seriously without turning that into a performance of taking it seriously.

If any of this sounds like what you're after, the better move is just to ask us directly rather than trying to piece it together from a website.

— Founder, London Escorts VIP