ComplyFlow vs Rapid Global: What Each One Does Best.

Yes. Its homepage names six AI features: RapidCheck document verification, Smart Courses course generation, Checkpoints access control, AI-enabled cameras, AI-enabled incident reports, and the Rapid Chat knowledge assistant. RapidCheck reads insurance and licence documents and applies rules you define to approve, reject, or refer them for review. ComplyFlow’s AI reads a submitted answer or file, such as a SWMS, against your criteria and shows its reasons to the person who approves.

Rapid Global’s AI check of Safe Work Method Statements, announced in an article dated 22 September 2026 and called RapidCheck SWMS Review on its product page. It reads an uploaded SWMS against a checklist of mandatory and recommended items, which you can customise with detection hints, and shows what it found. For now the result goes to your team to decide; automatic approval and rejection are listed as coming soon. ComplyFlow’s AI reviews a SWMS against the criteria you set, on the permit or the prequalification form, and never writes one.

Rapid Global publishes no platform price list. Its Rapid One page says pricing is user-based, depending on how many people you train, induct, and give site access in a month, on one invoice. A ComplyFlow Worker licence is AU$35 a year* per Worker, valid with every Client, and an AI-reviewed prequalification is AU$100 a year per company where a Client asks for one. ComplyFlow’s Enterprise plans are quoted.

Yes. Its Transport, Plant & Equipment add-on, launched in 2022 and updated in November 2025, holds the required documents and fields for vehicles, trailers, vessels, plant, and equipment, set per asset type. In ComplyFlow each item of plant has its own record, documents with expiry dates, a category setting what it must hold, and its own inspection history.

For Australian customers, yes. Its privacy policy says their data is stored in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region, and its RapidCheck page says AI processing for Australian customers stays in Australia. Rapid Global announced ISO 27001 certification in May 2022. ComplyFlow is hosted on AWS in Australia, ISO 27001 certified since 2019, and AWS Qualified Software since 2023.

To access control systems, yes; to gates and cameras, it brings none of its own. Cards are tied to RFID, sites sign in by QR code, kiosk, or the Live Access app, and ComplyFlow’s integrations list shows 3 native connectors for access control and key management (KeyWatcher Australia, Unicard, and Torus) and 10 more access systems that connect through the open API, including Gallagher, Genetec, ICT Protege, Inner Range Integriti, and SiPass. Rapid Global goes further at the gate itself, with camera and number plate identification. Ask either vendor to show your exact controller working.

Your maintenance or work-order system reads the supplier’s compliance through the API before it releases a job: cleared, and the Worker signs in to the order; not cleared, and your system holds it with the reason on the supplier’s record. The status is the same wherever it is read, and a Worker who is not cleared for the location will not be able to sign in until it is resolved, unless the site is set to allow Sign in Anyway, which notifies the client. The Inspection app records the work, and the open API reads and writes work orders and inspections. Read 1 October 2026.

You can. One shape is Rapid Global at the gates that need turnstiles or number plate recognition, with ComplyFlow carrying prequalification, permits, incidents, plant, and inspections. It is still two records for one contractor; ComplyFlow’s REST API and MCP access exist partly to make that cost smaller. Whatever you run, ask what happens between the systems: how a company’s approval reaches the work order and the gate, and whether the gate checks it again when the Worker arrives.