The problem we picked
Australia's training register is public, complete and constantly changing. When a qualification is superseded, the register knows. When the replacement isn't equivalent — which is where the real work hides — the register knows that too. But that knowledge just sits there. Nobody rings the RTOs it affects, and the tools most providers use weren't built to watch for it.
We measured it before building anything: on a random sample of registered providers, around 70% had at least one superseded product still on their live scope. Some had qualifications superseded more than ten years ago, with replacements flagged not equivalent, still sitting there. That gap between what the register knows and what providers know — that's our whole company.
What we're trying to build
A service where everything that runs on public data is free — the scope check, the in-browser enrolment cross, the daily watch — and where you only ever pay for skilled human work: mapping transitions, planning learner pathways, preparing the evidence an auditor wants to see.
If that works here, the same idea travels: every country has public registers that organisations are supposed to keep up with, and mostly don't. But Australia's VET sector comes first, and properly.
Who's behind it
One person: Jonathan, a software developer based in Spain. Register Radar is a genuinely new venture — founded in 2026, self-funded, no investors, built in the open. Right now a lot of my time goes into talking with RTO leaders to make sure what gets built next is what's actually needed, not what a pitch deck says.
You should weigh that honestly: we're small, and we're new. What you get in exchange is that the founder answers the email, the data behind every claim is verifiable on the government register, and nothing about your students ever touches our servers — by architecture, not by promise.
What we believe
Say only what the register says
Every number we send can be checked against training.gov.au. We don't make legal claims, we don't imply non-compliance, and we'd rather write "we can't see that" than guess.
Free where it costs us nothing
Checks on public data cost fractions of a cent. Charging for them would just mean fewer providers finding out. The paid work is the human part.
Hold as little as possible
Learner data never reaches us. For the watch we keep exactly two things: an RTO code and an email. Reply "stop" and both are deleted.
Small, honest, reachable
No ticket queues, no "your call is important to us". You write, the founder replies. While that stops scaling, it's the best feature we have.
Jonathan — Founder, Register Radar
contact@registerradar.com · Spain (working Perth-friendly afternoons)
The fastest way to judge us
Run the free check on your own RTO and verify every line against the register yourself.
Check my scope