Continuous workforce readiness at any scale

Certchain is a standards-driven competence management platform that defines what competence means, verifies it against real requirements, and makes it demonstrable to clients, regulators, and industry.

Our months to minutes approach guarantees that compliance, competence and readiness of all of your workforce becomes real time.

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AI-driven automation of workforce compliance to radically improve efficiency.

Real-time visibility of competence across your employed and subcontracted workforces.

Standardise workforce competence to enhance compliance – at any scale

Revolutionising Competence Management

Certchain is a standards-driven competence management platform that defines what competence means, verifies it against real requirements, and makes it demonstrable to clients, regulators, and industry.

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Your live workforce readiness map

Certchain brings together regulatory requirements, workforce competence data, and supply-chain evidence into a single, continuously updated view of readiness.

Instead of static reports or point-in-time checks, organisations gain ongoing visibility into whether the right people — across employees and suppliers — are competent to perform the work they are assigned. As standards change, roles evolve, or people move between projects, readiness is recalculated automatically, giving leaders early warning of risk and clear evidence of compliance.

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Competence is more than training – it’s a system.

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Most organisations manage training. Regulators require competence. Certchain bridges that gap by turning standards, roles, and evidence into a single, structured system that defines:

  • What competence means for a role

  • How it is achieved

  • How it is verified

  • How it is evidenced over time

Certchain replaces fragmented spreadsheets and policies, disconnected training records, and subjective sign-offs with a single, defensible competence framework. Built for regulated industries.

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Why use a Competence Management ecosystem?

Competence management ensures the right people are doing the right work — and that this can be proven.

Organisations use Certchain because spreadsheets, training records, and manual checks are no longer sufficient to demonstrate compliance, manage risk, or withstand scrutiny. Certchain connects standards, roles, and evidence into a single system, providing continuous visibility and defensible assurance of competence to your clients and regulators.

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How Certchain is helping customers

What it looks like when competence is managed as a system — not a spreadsheet

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It’s transformed the way we manage workforce compliance. What took weeks of chasing is now automated, visible in real time, and far more proactive.

Fiona Hill, Head of Client Services
SWGR

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It is a game changer! For the first time we know that our workers and supply chain are always compliant.

Nick Elms, CIO
Volker Wessels

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Built for businesses where competence is non-negotiable.

In safety-critical and regulated environments, competence is not a matter of internal policy or best practice – it is a legal, contractual, and reputational requirement.

Certchain provides competence infrastructure that allows organisations, clients, and industry bodies to define requirements once, apply them consistently, and evidence them continuously — across projects, suppliers, and roles.

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AI built for standards and competence management

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Certchain AI brings together standards, regulations, workforce data, and evidence. It interprets the data, delivers the right information to the right people, enforces consistency across organisations, and turns static requirements into operational rules.

What once took months of manual analysis can now be achieved in minutes — enabling organisations to move faster without losing control, clarity, or accountability.

Standards AI

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Make the standards you own available across your business, supply chain, or industry.

Insights AI

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Use AI to unlock insights from your data, revealing trends, risks, and opportunities instantly.

Policy AI

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Make your company policies easily available to your workforce and supply chain.

Policy Assessor AI

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Helps create, maintain, and comminicate compliant company policies.

Cara AI

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Deploy IAG careers guidance, analyse individual workers, and identify training gaps.

Projects AI

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AI-supported project auditing processes that strengthen oversight and streamlines workflows.

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Workforce compliance, competence, and readiness in minutes—not months.

HR leadership in construction is complex. Under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the 2023 Competence Regulations (Part 2A of the Building Regulations 2010), competence and certification are legal requirements for all workers and organisations on UK construction sites, yet failed compliance from unverified workers still costs the industry over £1bn each year due to labour scale, complex supply chains, and legacy practices.

  • Certchain uses AI to automate how competence and compliance data is presented — at a scale and frequency that manual processes can’t achieve.
    One of the UK’s largest prime contractors uses Certchain across 500+ sites and 300 supply-chain partners, achieving real-time compliance visibility and over 60% improvement in operational efficiency. With regulation tightening, waiting to improve is no longer an option.

  • We start with what you already have. Share your existing skills matrices, spreadsheets, or forms, and we use AI-assisted tools to ingest, structure, and operationalise the data quickly — turning static spreadsheets into live competence intelligence.

  • Very quickly.

    Once your user data is uploaded, a high-level compliance and competence dashboard can be live in around 10 minutes, giving immediate visibility across your workforce and supply chain.

  • Certchain integrates directly with over 40 competence and certification providers within the Workforce Competence Manager (WCM). A full list of current providers is available to download.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Each worker has a Certchain Skills Passport, managed on web and accessible via mobile.

    It brings together verified qualifications, certifications, and supporting evidence into a single, live competence record linked to role requirements.

  • Certchain integrates with a trusted identity verification partner network operating across 50+ countries. Workers without UK citizenship are prompted to complete a one-time Right to Work check, with verification securely recorded in their profile.

  • Gate systems only check compliance at a single moment in time. Certchain provides a continuous, real-time view of competence and compliance across over 40 live data feeds — allowing risks to be identified and addressed before they become site access issues.

  • Certchain’s architecture allows it to be deployed in secure, controlled environments — including defence, nuclear, and other highly regulated or isolated settings.

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Workforce compliance is no longer a barrier to safe, efficient project delivery — it’s a foundation for the future.

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