National Compliance Network

NCN / 03 / Features

One platform. Six modules.

NCN replaces five or six separate tools a trades business usually pays for. One workspace, one subscription, six modules that talk to each other. Activate the ones you need and pay for what you use.

M01 / Compliance

Asset compliance, certified to audit standard.

Asset register, report templates, jobs, approvals, QR linking, and a client portal. Built for the regulated industries: lifting, fire safety, health and safety, HVAC and pressure, and beyond. Every output is structured to stand up to an external audit.

01.1

Asset register

A full inventory of every regulated asset under custody, with hierarchy, custody, custody history, and inspection schedules.

  • Hierarchical asset structure
  • Custody and check-in/check-out
  • Inspection scheduling
  • Bulk import and export

01.2

Report templates

Standard templates for LOLER, PUWER, Fire Safety, HVAC, and pressure systems. Custom templates for everything else.

  • Pre-built standard templates
  • Custom report builder
  • Conditional fields and findings
  • Branded PDF output

01.3

Approvals workflow

Multi-step approval and sign-off on inspection reports. Audit trail captured automatically.

  • Configurable approval steps
  • Role-based sign-off
  • Locked records post-approval
  • Full audit history

01.4

QR-linked assets and client portal

Every asset gets a QR code linking to its live record. Clients see their own assets and reports through a read-only portal.

  • QR code generation
  • Mobile-first asset lookup
  • Client read-only portal
  • Maps and asset pinning

M02 / Operations

The day-to-day, documented and run.

The operations module turns the way you actually run the business into something you can train into, audit, and improve. Standard processes, scheduling, file management, and offline capture from site.

02.1

Business systems map

Document the eight standard processes every trades business runs. Versioned, exportable, training-ready.

  • Eight standard processes
  • Auto-generated flowcharts
  • Version history
  • Process export to PDF

02.2

Scheduling and dispatch

Plan the week, assign engineers, dispatch jobs, and see who is on what at a glance.

  • Week and day views
  • Engineer availability
  • Job assignment and dispatch
  • Live status tracking

02.3

File management

Drawings, specs, RAMS, certificates, and contracts in one place, attached to the right job, asset, or client.

  • Per-job and per-client folders
  • Version control on documents
  • Permissions by role
  • Mobile upload from site

02.4

Offline capability

Work in basements, plant rooms, and rural sites without signal. The platform syncs when you reconnect.

  • Offline form capture
  • Photo capture cached locally
  • Background sync on reconnect
  • Conflict resolution

M03 / CRM & Finance

Pipeline, margin, cash flow, clients.

Built for how trades businesses actually quote, win, and invoice. Job-level margin tracking, a pipeline you can forecast against, lead scoring, and the framework to recover margin when a job goes south.

03.1

Job margin tracker

Every job carries a live margin record. Quote, materials, labour, recovery, actual margin.

  • Quote-to-actuals reconciliation
  • Material and labour entry
  • Live margin calculation
  • Historical margin dashboard

03.2

Pipeline and forecast

A weighted pipeline by stage probability. Forecast model that rolls up to monthly revenue targets.

  • Configurable stages and probabilities
  • Per-pipeline owner views
  • Monthly target tracking
  • Pipeline-to-job conversion

03.3

Lead scoring

Score leads on the criteria that actually predict wins, tuned to your industry.

  • Configurable scoring criteria
  • Industry-specific weightings
  • Auto-prioritisation
  • Reporting on conversion

03.4

Margin recovery framework

When a job is bleeding margin, the framework walks the team through structured recovery: scope, charge, escalate.

  • Trigger thresholds per job
  • Recovery action templates
  • Escalation pathways
  • Outcome tracking

M04 / Growth

Strategic planning and learning, in the same place as the work.

The growth module turns your numbers into a 90-day plan you actually run, with a scorecard that benchmarks your commercial health, a CPD hub to keep the team current, and trade forums where the real working knowledge lives.

04.1

Commercial health scorecard

A structured scorecard across the levers that move a trades business. Industry-tuned question sets.

  • Industry-specific question sets
  • Scored dimensions
  • Quarterly re-scoring
  • Benchmark against peers

04.2

90-day plan builder

Translate the scorecard into three priorities, three targets, and a weekly cadence.

  • Three-priority structure
  • Owner assignment
  • Weekly check-ins
  • End-of-quarter review

04.3

CPD hub and events

Curated CPD content, course completions, and event RSVPs all in the platform.

  • CPD point tracking
  • Course library
  • Event listings and RSVP
  • Annual CPD targets per role

04.4

Forums and knowledge base

Trade-specific boards, business boards, and a curated knowledge base of templates and guides.

  • Trade-specific boards
  • Threaded discussion
  • Templates: contracts, RAMS, quotes
  • Industry update feed

M05 / Network

The national contractor marketplace and member community.

The most commercially impactful module on the platform. A unified job board with two posting paths, sealed bids, hybrid matching, contract templates, milestone tracking, and verified-only membership.

Read the network in detail

05.1

Unified job board

One board, two posting paths: Marketplace Customer or Member. Same form, same matching, same bidding model.

  • Customer-to-vendor lane
  • Member-to-member lane
  • Standard posting form
  • Live matched-count preview

05.2

Sealed-bid mechanics

Bidders never see other bids. Single bid per vendor. Public Q&A thread keeps information symmetric.

  • One bid per vendor
  • Sealed until close
  • Public Q&A thread
  • Customer-initiated revisions

05.3

Verified Member badge

Six checks, run by the platform, repeated annually. Posters can filter the bidder pool to verified-only.

  • Companies House check
  • Gazette and CCJ check
  • Tribunal and financial review
  • Annual re-verification

05.4

Contracts, milestones, reviews

Award triggers contract generation in-platform. Milestones tracked. Both sides leave reviews on completion.

  • Contract template generation
  • In-platform e-signing
  • Milestone tracking
  • Two-way reviews

M06 / Admin

The platform layer underneath everything else.

User management, permissions, billing, security, and support. Built for multi-tenant data isolation so a trades business of one and a contractor of one hundred can both run on the same platform without ever seeing each other's data.

06.1

Users and roles

Add team members, assign roles, configure permissions per role, audit who did what.

  • Admin, Manager, Inspector, Client
  • Role-based permissions
  • Granular feature gating
  • Audit log

06.2

Subscription and billing

Stripe-backed subscription, per-seat pricing, module activation, free trial gating.

  • Subscription tiers
  • Per-seat charging
  • Module activation
  • Stripe customer portal

06.3

Authentication and security

Email and Google OAuth, optional two-factor, full data isolation by tenant at the database layer.

  • Email and Google sign-in
  • Two-factor authentication
  • Row-level security
  • Session management

06.4

Settings and support

Organisation settings across every module surface, plus the in-platform support layer.

  • Inspection settings
  • Notification preferences
  • Asset type configuration
  • In-app support

07 / The waitlist

Six modules. One subscription. Get in early.

Pre-launch members get the first verification slots, founder pricing on subscription, and a direct line into the build team for what they need next.

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