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16 articlesSet up your organisation and invite your team
Create your builder account, confirm your business details, and bring in office admin or directors.
What BuildStandard does (and what it doesn't)
A quick orientation. Compliance and evidence, not quoting, costing or scheduling.
Run your first Financial Evaluation
Start an evaluation, upload the required documents, and get your result.
Understanding your financial evaluation tier
A plain-language look at how your financial position places you in a tier.
What documents do I need for a Financial Evaluation?
The usual set of financial documents to have ready before you start.
Start a project and its ITP
Create a project, then open its Inspection and Test Plan checklist.
Completing Before, During and After checklists
How the unified checklist works and how to mark an item complete.
Why every checklist item needs a photo
Evidence is what proves you actually looked. Here's why it's required.
Send a trade a declaration link
Get a subcontractor to confirm and sign off their work via a secure link. No login needed.
A trade hasn't signed yet. What now?
Chasing a sign-off, resending the link, and what the activity timeline shows.
Issue a handover kit to your client
Bundle the right documents and send a secure, documented handover to your client.
Plans, included events, and per-event pricing
How your plan, your first included event, and pay-as-you-go events fit together.
Signing in with a one-time code
BuildStandard doesn't use passwords. We send a fresh code to your email every time you sign in. Here's what to do if it doesn't arrive.
Add or remove a team member and set their role
Manage who's on your account and what each person can do.
I received a handover kit. What is it?
For clients: what your builder has sent you and what to do with it.
A builder sent me a link to sign. Is it genuine?
For clients and trades: how to recognise a legitimate BuildStandard link.
Talk to a real person.
We're a small team and we read every email. Tell us what you're trying to do, send a screenshot if you've got one, and we'll sort it out.
We usually reply the same business day