Case study · SaaS compliance platform

TrustPoint: knowing who's safe to be on site, the moment they arrive.

A subcontractor compliance platform for NZ builders and property managers. It doesn't just store certificates, it continuously computes whether a contractor is compliant under the Health and Safety at Work Act, and controls site access in real time.

SectorConstruction & property compliance
StandardsIndependently security-audited
StatusLive at trustpoint.nz
The problem

Compliance is a moving target, and the cost of getting it wrong is enormous.

Under the Health and Safety at Work Act, a main contractor is responsible for everyone on their site. But a subcontractor's compliance isn't a fixed fact, it's a state that changes every day: an insurance policy lapses, a Site Safe passport expires, a health and safety plan goes out of date. A folder full of PDFs collected at the start of a job tells you nothing about today.

The hard part isn't storing documents. It's answering one question reliably, on demand, for every contractor and every worker: "Are they safe to be here right now, and can I prove it?" TrustPoint was built to answer exactly that.

Under the hood

The engineering that makes it work.

TrustPoint isn't a document store with a nice front end. Several deliberate design decisions make it genuinely trustworthy as a system of record.

01

A readiness state that's computed, never assigned

No one ever clicks "mark as compliant". The engine derives each contractor's state — Ready, At Risk, Restricted or Blocked — live from their actual evidence, expiry dates and the requirements that specific principal has set. Change a date, and the state recalculates itself.

02

A tamper-evident audit chain

Every significant event is written to an append-only log where each entry carries a SHA-256 hash of the one before it. Alter or delete a record and the chain breaks visibly. If WorkSafe asks you to prove what you knew and when, the history can't have been quietly rewritten.

03

Live checks against government registers

Documents are cross-checked in real time against the NZBN, Licensed Building Practitioner and Insolvency registers through the official MBIE APIs, so a claimed licence or company status is verified at source, not just taken on trust from an uploaded PDF.

04

A QR site gate that checks readiness on arrival

Each site has a QR code. A worker scans, verifies their phone by one-time code, and the gate recomputes their company's readiness on the spot — admitting, restricting or denying entry and writing an induction record. It even works offline, with a cryptographic seal verified on sync.

05

Append-only evidence, so the record is honest

Approved documents are never edited in place. A renewal creates a new record that supersedes the old one, preserving the full history. The evidentiary value of the original is never lost or overwritten.

06

AI that reads documents, humans that decide

When a certificate is uploaded, AI extracts the policy limits, dates and details automatically and presents them with a confidence score. The contractor confirms; nothing sensitive is auto-trusted. It removes the data entry without removing the human judgement.

See it working

The actual product.

The fastest way to understand TrustPoint is the no-login demo: six guided scenarios drawn from real builder situations, each walking you through the product step by step.

TrustPoint builder dashboard with readiness states
Builder dashboardEvery contractor's readiness at a glance, with alerts and expiries surfaced inline
TrustPoint contractor relationship detail
Relationship detailRequirements, documents, history and register checks per contractor
TrustPoint contractors list with readiness states
Contractor networkYour whole subcontractor base with live readiness states
TrustPoint site and QR gate
Site & gateQR sign-in that checks readiness and writes an induction record in real time
TrustPoint tamper-evident history and export
Audit & exportTamper-evident history you can export to prove compliance on the day
What's inside

A complete platform, not a prototype.

  • Two parallel streams: construction and property
  • Per-relationship requirements and approvals
  • Time-bounded overrides, legal holds, provisional passes
  • SMS one-time codes at the gate, with offline fallback
  • In-app notifications with quiet hours
  • Webhook event streaming with signed payloads
  • Privacy-by-design: gate proves possession, not identity
  • Independently security-audited, A+ on SSL Labs

Got a system this involved in mind?

TrustPoint went from idea to a live, security-audited platform. If your business needs real software, not a brochure, let's talk.

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