CertAssist

Every clause checked.
Every gap flagged.
Back to you fast.

Compliance assessment for all types of approvals. Upload the drawings and supporting documents, and the plans are checked clause by clause against the legislation itself — it picks up the changes needed for the plans to comply, identifies missing documents, and sets out what's needed to resolve each item.

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How it works

1 · Upload the pack

Upload your drawings, then all the other documents — 10.7, title, DP, whatever you've got.

2 · Every clause assessed

Every clause of the applicable code is assessed against your plans — along with title and 88B obligations, live planning-map constraints and council flood studies. Where the plans don't comply, the report recommends what's needed to make them comply.

3 · Report back fast

A plain-English summary, full clause tables, and a red list of what's missing or must be fixed — with the code text quoted in full.

What's in the report

Not a summary — a working document you can assess from, with every claim carrying its source and page.

Every clause, in order, in the legislation's words

From the general requirements through to the applicable code — quoted from the current legislation, never from summary tables.

Required vs proposed on every standard

What the code requires beside what the drawings show, with the sheet reference — setbacks, height, floor area, landscaping, parking, all of it.

Title and 88B obligations

Covenants, support easements, developer approval preconditions — read in full, burden lists checked lot by lot.

Live spatial constraints

The NSW planning maps checked for the exact parcel — bushfire, acid sulfate, flooding, mine subsidence, biodiversity, airport height limits — with the detail, not just yes/no.

Council flood information

Checked against the certificate — including studies the 10.7 hasn't caught up with yet.

A verdict you can act on

A red list of what must be provided or fixed, an amber list of items to confirm, and a clear indication — permissible, permissible subject to documents, or not permissible as drawn, with reasons.

On one recent sample job the report caught five development-standard failures before lodgement — including a 120 mm setback shortfall and a garage door that can't comply on that lot width. Read exactly that report — fictionalised, findings untouched — via the sample link above.

Why it works

Quick and thorough — an assessment that would take hours by hand is back in minutes, saving an assessor or certifier around 75% of their time.

Assessed against the legislation itself, not summaries

Every clause is quoted from the current NSW compilation, with its currency date stated. Summary tables drift — in our own work we've found published guidance contradicting the legislation on two development standards. The legislation is the only basis we use.

Checkable line by line

Every finding names its source — document, sheet, page, clause — so you can verify any row of the report in seconds without taking our word for anything.

Nothing is assumed clear

Missing evidence is never treated as compliance. No 10.7, no engineering, no utility search — it goes on the red list in plain words instead of disappearing.

Beyond the certificate

We check the NSW planning maps for the parcel and research council flood studies — which has already surfaced a finalised shire-wide flood study on land whose 10.7 still says flood status is unknown.

The plans themselves, not just the paperwork

The report is built from the drawings — the figures on the plans checked against the figures in the legislation, sheet by sheet, standard by standard. That's the point of difference.

Fast turnaround

Reports are back fast — send the pack on a live job and judge the result against your own review.

Stop paying your most expensive person to read legislation.

Every CDC you assess by hand costs hours of senior time — at a senior rate of $200 an hour, that's $600+ of margin burned per job before you've even found the setback that doesn't comply.

Here's the math on 50 jobs a month:
  • 50 assessments by hand: roughly 150 hours of senior time.
  • 50 assessments through CertAssist: minutes each to review — every clause already checked, every gap already flagged, the applicant's requirements list already written.
  • You get back weeks of billable capacity every month — for $79 a job.

You're not buying reports. You're buying back the hours you currently spend cross-referencing drawings against the legislation — and every finding names its source, so checking our work takes seconds, not hours.

Starter
$1,290/mo

10 assessments a month
~$129 per job

Growth
$2,970/mo

30 assessments a month
~$99 per job

Most popular
Scale
$3,950/mo

50 assessments a month
~$79 per job

Any job type on any plan — pool, spa, dwelling or complex, one flat allowance. Unused assessments don't roll over. Casual per-job rates from $149 if you're not ready for a plan.

Every assessment includes:
  • The full clause-by-clause compliance report — every clause quoted from the current legislation, every finding with its source.
  • The applicant-ready List of Requirements — the checklist you'd otherwise spend another half hour writing, formatted to email straight out. Included free.
  • Title and 88B obligations read in full, live NSW planning-map checks on the exact parcel, and council flood-study research.

Our guarantee: if your own review catches something an assessment missed, that assessment is free. You shouldn't pay for work you had to redo.

Your first assessment is free.

Send us a live pack. Compare the report against your own review. If it doesn't catch everything you caught, don't sign up — no charge, no follow-up.

Accounts are set up personally, one firm at a time — which means we onboard a limited number of firms each month. Use the button below with your name and firm and you'll have a login the same day.