Novato Reviews & Product Details

Novato keeps every subcontractor's licence, insurance, and induction card verified and up to date, automatically, checked against real government registers, not a photo of a card. It's built for Australian general contractors running multiple projects and subcontractors at once, and it covers a lot more than onboarding paperwork. Compliance verification Every requirement type, licences, insurance policies, inductions, right to work, is checked against the real source, not just filed. Where a state actually publishes a public register, high-risk work licences and asbestos removal licences are checked directly against it, so a GC isn't trusting a photo of a card that could be expired, fake, or someone else's. Expiring documents are tracked automatically and surfaced before they lapse, not after. Project delivery, compliance-first Beyond onboarding, Novato tracks the compliance side of a project as it runs: variations with sign-off links, RFIs with due dates, defects through a full lifecycle from reported to rectified, payment requests, permits with issued work windows, incidents and near misses with corrective actions, and WHS management plans generated from a project's actual hazards and PPE requirements. It deliberately stays out of budgeting, scheduling, and task management, that's not what it's for, and leaves the PM-adjacent gaps to integrations like Xero instead. Site operations A General Contractor (GC) can run visitor sign-in, an inspections register, crew onboarding, and a site sign-in/out kiosk (with offline support) straight from the platform, plus a site diary and roster for each project. The Vault, for subcontractors Subcontractors get their own free Vault to manage their documents once and reuse them across every GC they work with, instead of re-submitting the same insurance certificate to five different portals. It's the free side of the platform by design, the hook that gets subbies into the system in the first place, with self-serve identity matching and share links so a subbie can pull a GC in without waiting to be invited. Calendar and visibility Every deadline, document expiries, plant and equipment inspections, asbestos reviews, right to work rechecks, variation sign-offs, permit work windows, rolls up into one calendar a GC can subscribe to from Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar, so it stays current without anyone having to log in and check. Integrations Xero is connected end to end for invoicing and payment reconciliation, so compliance data doesn't live in a silo separate from the accounting a GC already does.