Why Core

Built for the business of inspection.

Core is for companies that inspect and certify lifting, rigging, and height-safety equipment for their customers. Five things make it the wrong tool for everyone else — and the right one for you.

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Most software stops at “inspection completed”. Core runs the loop your business actually runs:

  1. 1. QuoteWin the work
  2. 2. ScheduleRight tech, right ticket
  3. 3. InspectBatches, offline, on site
  4. 4. CertifyOne branded PDF pack
  5. 5. BillJob costs straight to invoice

The business model

Built for companies that sell inspection — not just do it

Most inspection software stops at “inspection completed.” Core models the whole service-company motion: jobs quoted, technicians dispatched across branches, time and materials captured on site, certificates delivered, invoices raised. Customers are first-class objects in the data model — not metadata on a checklist.

Cross-branch dispatch, technician utilisation reporting, and service-charge capture at the point of inspection ship as standard.

See scheduling & dispatch

Compliance

Five regulatory regions. One platform. No bolt-ons.

LOLER thorough examinations in the UK. AS/NZS 2550 and AS 4991 in Australia and New Zealand. ASME B30 in the US and Canada. The LEEA Code of Practice across all of them. These frameworks shape Core's forms, certificate formats, and approval logic out of the box — they aren't modules you purchase separately or templates you build yourself.

An operator serving UK and AU customers from the same business runs one system, one register, one set of portals.

How that compares, vendor by vendor

The portal

Every customer logs in. None of them cost you a seat.

Each of your customers gets a branded online register at your subdomain — their equipment, their certificates, their inspection history, on demand. Unlimited logins are included on every plan. Some competitors charge per portal licence; for a service company with 200 clients, that single line item routinely flips a multi-year cost comparison.

Scotia Handling Services put 300+ customers into branded portals within three months of switching.

Read the Scotia case study

Field volume

200 chain slings before lunch — as one batch, not 200 forms

Multi-inspect is built for how high-volume site work actually happens: capture a batch with shared metadata, then drill into the defects only. One-form-per-item tools are fine for an audit; they fall over on a rigging loft with hundreds of similar assets. This is the difference between a day on site and two.

Proofload's reports went out three times faster within six months of moving off manual methods.

Read the Proofload case study

Competency

Uncertified technicians can't be booked. Full stop.

Plenty of platforms track competencies as data. Core enforces them as scheduling rules: a technician without a current ticket for an inspection type can't be assigned to it. Your LEEA, ASME, and HRWL competency obligations stop being a spreadsheet you audit and become a constraint the system applies on every booking.

Competency rules, expiry tracking, and assignment blocking are part of the scheduler — not a report you run after the fact.

See competency enforcement

And the one that doesn't fit a feature list

Support from people who know what a thorough examination is

When you call Core, you reach people who understand ROTEs, proof loads, and colour-coding schemes — not a ticket queue reading from a script. Onboarding, data migration, certificate template rebuilds, and training are part of every plan, run by named humans you'll get to know.

A very user friendly program and the support team are very helpful if ever required.
Graeme Beard, Business Analyst, Nobles — a Core customer for 9 years

When Core isn't the answer

Honesty qualifies faster than a pitch. If any of these describe you, we'll point you elsewhere — and our comparison pages say the same in detail.

You run generic site-safety audits across food, retail, manufacturing, and a dozen other domains.

SafetyCulture is the category leader for that — and the right call.

Core vs SafetyCulture

You own your equipment — a climbing centre, rope-access team, or wind-farm operator inspecting your own PPE.

Papertrail's owner-side workflow is excellent in those niches.

Core vs Papertrail

You need on-premise or air-gapped deployment for sovereignty or defence reasons.

Core is cloud-only. Pervidi genuinely fits that constraint.

Core vs Pervidi

You want a self-service free trial before ever talking to a human.

Our motion is a demo plus a scoped trial of your real configuration — deliberate, but not frictionless.

What the demo covers

But if your business is inspecting and certifying equipment for your customers — that's exactly what Core was built for, and nothing generic will fit as well.

150,000+
Client organisations served
10M+
Inspections recorded
40-60%
Admin time saved
10+
Years in operation

See the five pillars on your own equipment

Thirty minutes with someone who knows the inspection business. We'll show you the loop end to end — register to certificate pack to invoice.

Read the case studies