NexCert
Why I built NexCert
I trained and qualified as an electrician earlier in my career, and I've spent over 15 years on UK electrical work — mostly on the programme side of the trade, running EICR schedules, remedial follow-up, and client audits for the contracting firms I've worked in.
The route to here
I came up on the tools. Domestic first, then commercial. Once I'd qualified as an electrician I moved off the tools and onto the programme side — the paperwork, the scheduling, the client-facing compliance work that turns individual jobs into a defensible audit trail.
Every year the compliance load got heavier. The regs got sharper — BS 7671 Amendment 4, the 2020 rented-property regs, then the 2025 social-housing extension. Client audits got tighter. And every year I watched good contractors get caught out by the same category of mistake: not the technical work, but the paper trail around it.
What I kept seeing
Certificates issued from a laptop in the van, then never delivered to the tenant inside 28 days.
C1 findings signed off as "make safe" but nobody chasing the follow-up until it appeared on a client's audit six months later.
Sample sizes rounded down instead of up. LD2 counts fudged. CCU changes issued as EICs when they should have been remedied to their original EICR. Bonding recorded as "satisfactory" without a photograph in the file.
None of this is contractors being lazy. It's contractors being underserved by tools that were designed as digital paper — electronic mimics of the paper cert — instead of tools that actually understand what a compliant programme looks like.
What NexCert is trying to be
NexCert is what I wanted when I was on the programme side of these contracts. Certs that know the difference between a satisfactory EICR and one with a C1 that needs a 24-hour remedial lock. A remedial queue that prioritises itself by regulation deadline, not by whoever shouts loudest. Handover packs that assemble themselves from the work you've already done. Runtime tracking that lets you see where your engineers are spending their day, without turning your team into a call centre.
The point isn't compliance for its own sake. It's giving contractors the tools to deliver exactly the service their clients specced — on time, in full, defensible — without the paperwork tax eating their margin. When the client asks "is the programme on schedule and audit-ready?", the answer should be yes, backed by evidence, without a two-day scramble.
Every design decision starts from the same test: does this help the person carrying the programme sleep at night. Not "does this look impressive in a demo".
Where NexCert is today
Honestly, early. I'm running a waitlist while I finish hardening the last few features and get the legal groundwork reviewed. The tool works — the code is in production, the compliance rails are built, and I use it inside the contracting programmes I work on day-to-day. But I'm keeping signups gated until I'm certain that the first hundred customers get a service that behaves like the rest of their compliance stack: predictable, defensible, and audit-ready from day one.
If that pace sounds right to you, join the waitlist. I read every name that lands.
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