Your business already runs on a system. It just lives in your head.
Lead Comply builds the quality manual, the procedures and the audit trail that a certification body asks to see. Built over a few weeks at your own pace, without a consultant on retainer.
Already certified to ISO 9001:2015? The 2026 edition published on 16 September. Five questions will show you which parts of your system it actually touches.Check my transition gapFree plan, no card requiredBuilt for small teamsHosted in Australia
The gap analysis inside your Lead Comply account, mapped against ISO 9001:2026.
Australian SMEs
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Typical time to audit ready
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ISO 9001 used to set you apart. Now it just gets you in the door.
It is a written record of how your business does its work, kept current and actually followed. For years that was a nice extra to have. Then tender forms started asking for it, bigger contractors started requiring it from everyone they hire, and the work you used to win quietly moved out of reach.
The knowledge lives in one person
If you are off site or off sick, does the work still happen the same way? For most small businesses the honest answer is no, and that is the thing an auditor is actually testing.
Tenders ask for it before anything else
On most forms the certificate is a yes or no box near the top. Tick no and nobody reads the rest of your bid, however good your work is.
The same mistakes keep costing you
Rework and comebacks that repeat are not bad luck. Nothing in the business is capturing what went wrong last time.
The consultant costs more than the audit
Most of a first year certification budget goes to someone writing documents, not to the certification body doing the assessment.
The rules changed in September
A new version, ISO 9001:2026, came out on 16 September. If you are starting from scratch, build to that one rather than to the version being retired.
Five things that get a business audit ready.
Each one produces evidence. That is the difference between a quality system and a folder of documents nobody opens.
- Gap analysis
Where you actually stand
Your business mapped against every clause in plain English, ranked by what a certification body will ask about first. No matrix to fill in.
- Documents
A quality manual written for your business
Policies and procedures drafted against your industry and your way of working, not a template with your name dropped into it.
- Non conformance
A record when something goes wrong
NCR and corrective actions tracked properly, so the same problem stops arriving twice and you have the evidence to prove it.
- Internal audit
Proof the system is working
An audit programme and checklists that generate what a certification body asks to see, rather than something assembled the week before.
- Management review
The meeting a certifier asks to see minutes of
Clause 9.3 wants evidence that leadership looked at the system and made decisions. Lead Comply drafts the minutes and keeps the review on your roadmap so it does not quietly lapse.
- All five, connected
Everything connects to the same record.
Generate a document and it lands in the vault. Raise a non conformance and it shows up in your next internal audit. When a client, a tender or a certification body asks for evidence, it is already there.
From nothing written down to audit ready.
Create your account
Free, in under a minute. No card, no discovery call, no implementation project.
See where you stand
Answer honest questions about how the business actually runs. Lead Comply maps the answers to the standard.
Generate the documents
Your manual and procedures, drafted against your business and ready to edit.
Keep it current
Audit reminders, sign off tracking, and an export whenever someone asks for proof.
The audit costs the same either way.
Only an accredited certification body can issue the certificate, and you pay them directly whichever route you take. What changes is the ten to fifteen thousand dollars most businesses pay someone else to build the system that gets audited.
| Cost item | Traditional path | With Lead Comply |
|---|---|---|
| Consultant to build the system | A$10,000 to A$15,000 in year one | A$0 |
| Certification body audit | A$3,000 to A$7,000 | A$3,000 to A$7,000, paid to them, not us |
| Annual surveillance audit | A$2,000 to A$5,000 | A$2,000 to A$5,000, paid to them, not us |
| Software | Usually a setup fee plus a per-seat licence | A$0 to A$199 per month, unlimited viewers |
| Typical time to audit-ready | 3 to 6 months | Weeks, at your own pace |
| Three-year total, system build only | A$32,000+ | A$7,164 at A$199/mo, or A$0 on the free plan |
Figures are typical published ranges for a small Australian business and are indicative, not quotes. Audit and surveillance fees are set by the certification body you choose and are paid directly to them. Your own costs will depend on your size, scope and which body you engage.
Lead Comply does not issue your certificate. It gets you ready for the body that does.
In Australia only a JAS-ANZ accredited certification body can certify you, after a formal Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit. You will pay them directly. We would rather you knew that here than found out after signing up.
| Certification | Only a JAS-ANZ accredited body |
|---|---|
| Data hosting | Australian region only |
| Document export | Yours, any plan, any time |
| Viewer seats | Unlimited and free |
| Built by | A BSI Qualified Lead Internal Quality Auditor |
Lead Comply's product direction is guided by Danny Huynh, a BSI Qualified Lead Internal Quality Auditor in Sydney, with more than a decade implementing quality management systems across manufacturing, healthcare and gaming.
Start on the free plan. Pay when it earns it.
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