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You're not short on work. You're short on the hours your work is eating.

Custom AI workflows for Australian NatHERS, BASIX and Section J consultancies. Built around your existing software, your jurisdiction, and the way your team already works. We don't sell you another piece of software. We make the one you've got quieter.

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The Pain

If you run an assessment practice, you've said one of these out loud this week.

"R4 on that summary when it should be R5 — and the whole job's up."
Typos at handoff. The kind of error that voids a certification and eats a day chasing it.
"Quote accepted three days ago. Never got forwarded. Now the SLA's already burning."
A five-second admin task that delays the job by half a week.
"Plans came in. Half the info we need isn't there. We should've asked for another two weeks."
A missed gap at intake costs a month at the back end of the job.
"Adobe is horrible to use. Every report ends with someone stamping, copying, formatting, exporting."
The last mile of every job is friction nobody bills for.
"My senior assessor knows it. The juniors don't — and we keep retyping the answer."
Tacit knowledge that lives in one head, until that person's on leave.

How It Works

We don't replace your assessment software. We automate the rest of your day.

Your FirstRate5 / AccuRate / BERS Pro stays where it is — the accredited modelling is yours. We build the layer around it: the lookups, handoffs, gap-checks, distribution, and summaries that currently eat your assessors' time.

The Knowledge-Base Bot

A wiki of your R-values, U-values, solar absorptance tables, NCC clauses, BASIX certificate requirements, product specs, and house-rules — queryable from Telegram, WhatsApp or your internal chat. Your assessor types "solar absorptance for Monument" and gets 0.73, Dark D classification in under five seconds. Pakistan team queries it. New hires onboard against it. Every gap surfaced becomes a new wiki page.

Quote-Acceptance Auto-Forward

Client accepts a quote → assessor gets the brief, the booking, the client folder, and the checklist within seconds. No more three-day forwarding delays. No more SLA fires.

Plan-to-Checklist Gap Finder

Plans land. Claude reads them, checks them against your intake checklist, and flags missing information before the assessor opens FirstRate5. The chase happens at intake, not a month into the job.

Contractor Distribution

Replace WeTransfer's 3-day expiry pain. Job folders sync to your offshore or in-house team with persistent access and a clear handoff. Stop re-uploading files because the link expired over a weekend.

Energy Summary Auto-Generation

Certificate lands. The bot extracts the data points, runs them through your standard format, and produces the client-facing summary. The assessor reviews and approves — they don't retype.

Wiki Capture On The Fly

Senior assessor answers a question over chat. A /save command turns the answer into a permanent wiki page. Tacit knowledge becomes shared knowledge. Compounds week after week.

Proof

What it does at one of these firms, today.

An Australian residential energy efficiency consultancy with ~1,000 jobs a year, two in-house assessors, five offshore contractors. Founding-client engagement — same playbook applies to any practice in the 500–2,000 jobs/year band.

800+
Hours saved / year (Year 2 saturation)
$96K+
Operational savings / year (at $120/hr loaded cost)
5 sec
Bot-lookup time (vs minutes per query)
3x
Conservative Year-2 ROI
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Pricing

What it costs.

Straight talk. No "request a quote" theatre. The numbers are the numbers; the scope adjusts.

Setup

From $3,000

Knowledge-base bot, 4–6 priority sources ingested, hosted and deployed to your team's chat platform. 1–2 weeks. Founding-client rate while we're still adding to the case-study roster; standard setup is $6,000.

Monthly Retainer

$1,750 / month

Up to 10 hours covering: weekly on-site or video session, one new source ingest, bot maintenance and improvements. Additional automations (quote forward, plan gap finder, energy summary auto-gen) are scoped and priced individually.

Hour caps are written into every engagement. You will never get a surprise invoice.

FAQ

Questions assessors actually ask.

Do you replace our NatHERS software?

No. FirstRate5, AccuRate, BERS Pro, HERO — they stay. The accredited modelling stays with the accredited tool. We automate everything that sits around it.

How long does setup take?

MVP wiki-bot ships in 1–2 weeks. Phase 1 automations roll out over 2–4 weeks after that. We build incrementally — you see value in week two, not month six.

What does it cost?

Setup from $3,000 (founding-client rate, limited). Standard $6,000. Monthly retainer $1,750. Additional automations scoped individually — typical bundle is $4,500–$8,500 per Phase 2 build.

Will this pass accreditation requirements?

Yes — because the accredited assessment isn't what we touch. The assessor stays accountable for the final certified output. We automate the admin layer.

Why not just buy an off-the-shelf tool?

If a SaaS tool fits, buy it. We build for the gaps the tools miss — workflows between your tools, lookups specific to your jurisdiction, handoffs your team does manually today.

What if our team isn't tech-savvy?

Good. Most of our clients aren't, and that's the point. The bot lives in WhatsApp or Telegram — the same app your team already uses. No new login. No new software to learn. You ask it questions in plain English.

Worth a 30-minute conversation?

No pitch deck. We'll ask what's eating your assessors' time. You'll get an honest read on whether automation makes sense before you spend a cent.

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