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Pilot and beta pricing

When the pilot ends, your firm holds the evidence behind its register. For each fire safety measure on the jobs you sent us there is a one-page note that says what the rule required in the editions around the approval date, cites the edition, the page and the clause, and sets out what changed in later editions. Where your asset data now has a gap or a guess about what the rules said at the time, it holds a cited reference instead, ready for a qualified person to check and attach to the job.

This is a pilot page. These are pilot and beta prices for the Frontier Library's design-partner pilot, which is not up and running yet. They are for business customers, shown ex GST with the GST-inclusive figure beside each, and every pilot payment is credited against your first subscription.

What you get

• A one-page evidence note per measure, in our own words, with the edition, page and clause cited and the later changes listed.
• A site pack: the notes for every measure on one building, so the whole register for that site reads from one set of evidence.
• A fortnightly call, a say in which topics the library indexes next, and the first offer of the terms that follow the pilot.
• A turnaround agreed with you in writing before the first job. We publish no turnaround here until the pilot has measured one.

What the market publishes for this work

No Australian price is published for a note like ours, and no published figure covers the whole job, so we publish no total. These are the closest published rates for desk work of this kind, each as its source states it; none is a price we have charged.

A desktop review of an asset register

From $1 an asset with a $1,000 minimum, as one Australian asset-management consultancy advertises its register health check: a desktop review with no site visit, with register reconstruction and manual cleansing quoted separately (GST not stated).

A fire service searching a building file (Tasmania)

$184.55 an hour ex GST: the Tasmania Fire Service's statutory charge for a search of a building's file with a short report (2026-27). A regulator's cost-recovery charge, not a market price.

A senior compliance consultant's day, government ceiling

$1,470 ex GST: the NSW Government's recommended maximum daily rate for a senior consultant in compliance and assurance work, which includes building-code consulting (effective November 2022; about $184 an hour over an eight-hour day).

Our standard rate

$200 an hour ex GST, which applies after the pilot. It sits at the senior-consultant ceiling because the work is reading repealed ordinances and code editions against each other and citing the page, not data entry.

The pilot rate

During the pilot we prepare every note ourselves from the library and send it to you by email; there is no software to log in to, which is why the project pages carry their pilot notices. Pilot and beta partners pay for our time at $100 an hour ex GST: half our standard rate, and about half the published hourly figures above for comparable desk work. Every package below is a flat fee for a stated scope at that rate, so the hours behind each price are shown. Every pilot payment is credited in full against your first subscription if you subscribe within two months of the pilot's written decision. Places are capped at three firms.

The packages

How the pilot price is credited

Everything you pay during the pilot is a deposit on the subscription that follows it. When the pilot ends with a written decision to go on, the full amount you paid comes off your first subscription invoice, provided you subscribe within two months of that decision. If either side decides to stop, you keep the notes you have paid for and owe nothing more. The subscription price is set with the pilot partners before the pilot ends and offered to them first.

Questions about the price

Why are prices shown ex GST?

This page is for business customers, so prices are shown ex GST with the GST-inclusive figure beside each. GST is itemised on every invoice.

Is the pilot rate a discount?

It is half our standard rate of $200 an hour, which applies from the end of the pilot. There is no former price and nothing is marked down from one; the published figures above are other organisations' rates, shown for comparison, not ours.

What if a note takes longer than the hours assumed?

The price does not change. The pilot measures the hours, and the subscription price after the pilot is set from what was measured.

What does it cost after the pilot?

Our time at $200 an hour. The subscription packages are set with the pilot partners from the hours the pilot measures and offered to them first, with their pilot payments credited against them.

Is an evidence note legal advice or a certificate?

No. It is reference information for a qualified person to check, not certification or legal advice.

Prices on this page are in Australian dollars for business customers and exclude GST unless marked. Places in the pilot are capped at three firms.

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