PolicyPack is live today.
It is the answer to a question we kept asking ourselves while building three previous companies in three different industries: why is the cheapest credible compliance documentation in Australia $5,000, and the only alternative a folder of generic PDF templates that auditors immediately recognise as worthless?
The answer is that nobody had built the middle tier. The law firm has the capability and the price ceiling. The template marketplace has the price floor and no capability. There was nothing in between because compliance is structurally hard to automate — until very recently.
That changed. So we built it.
What it is
PolicyPack generates a complete, branded, jurisdiction-specific compliance pack for an Australian SMB in approximately 20 minutes. The pack contains, by default, your WHS Policy, Safe Work Method Statements for the high-risk activities you actually perform, an Incident & Hazard Register, an Emergency Response Plan, an Employee Code of Conduct, a Privacy Management Plan aligned to the Australian Privacy Principles, an Anti-bullying & Harassment Policy, and a Training Register. Optional documents — Fatigue Management, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Drugs & Alcohol, Vehicle & Driver — are toggled on or off as you build.
Every clause is generated against your specific industry, your specific state, and the operational details you provide on the build flow. Every regulatory citation links back to the actual Act, Regulation, or Code of Practice it draws from — not a generic "consult the relevant regulator" placeholder.
The price is $199, one time, for a single pack. The Vault tier is $5/month for indefinite retention and unlimited re-downloads. The Subscription tier is $49/month for continuous regulatory monitoring and automatic regeneration when the regulations underneath your pack change.
Who it's for
The first wave of PolicyPack customers fall into three buckets.
Sub-trade construction businesses trying to clear a tier-one head contractor's pre-qualification process. Cm3, Avetta, PreQual all want a structurally consistent, regulator-aligned set of WHS documentation. Templates fail the assessment. A $5,000 consultancy is excessive for a six-person plumbing business. PolicyPack fits.
Allied health clinics, dental practices, and physio rooms dealing with the intersection of Privacy Act 1988 obligations on health information, AHPRA practice standards, and SafeWork on sharps handling and lone working. The regulatory surface for a three-person clinic is genuinely complicated and the existing options are either painfully expensive or dangerously generic.
Cafes, restaurants, and bars facing tightening Food Standards ANZ obligations, the Fair Work Commission's increasing focus on wage compliance and casual conversion, and the ever-present WHS exposure on knives, hot surfaces, and slips. Hospitality margins don't support $5,000 retainers. They do support $199 once.
We expect this to broaden as the platform matures. The build flow is built to accept any business — including the long tail of NDIS providers, mobile service operators, art galleries, and registered training organisations who don't fit a clean industry bucket.
What we won't do
We are not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice. The documents we generate are templates, in the deepest sense — they reflect the regulator's prescribed structure and the relevant industry's conventions, generated to a standard that survives scrutiny in normal commercial use. They do not replace the involvement of a competent lawyer when something genuinely goes wrong. We say this on every page.
We will not pretend the regulator is something it isn't. We track the actual texts of the WHS Acts, the Privacy Act 1988, Fair Work obligations, the relevant Codes of Practice, and the state-specific instruments. When those change, we know. When they change in a way that affects your pack, you'll hear from us.
We will not bundle in a $200/month subscription you didn't ask for. The base product is $199, one time. You own the documents, in PDF and in editable form. The Subscription tier is opt-in, not default.
What we built today, and what's next
The site you're reading this on is the launch surface — a blog for the things we want to be on the record about, a guides section for the long-form pieces operators ask us about, a press kit, an industry-specific landing page for each of the seven verticals we support, and the build flow itself.
The build flow is the product. It walks you through your industry, jurisdiction, headcount, services, hazards, and document selection in roughly four minutes. The generation runs in the background while you watch a pipeline view that's more honest than it needs to be — it shows you what the system is actually doing.
What's next: a workspace surface for businesses that want to keep their pack live. Versioned regeneration when regulations change. A team-share model for sub-trades that need to demo their pack to multiple head contractors. Direct connections into Cm3 and the other pre-qualification platforms.
We will build all of that in public, on this blog, with the same tone you've been reading.
If you're an Australian operator wondering whether your compliance documentation would survive a real audit — generate a pack, download it, hand it to whoever audits you for a living, and ask them what they think.
That's the test we built it for.