Our mission
To close the gap between what the public register publishes and what it actually tells you — so every superseded product on a provider's scope carries the date the law puts on it, computed and free, without anyone having to ask.
Our vision
Every country runs public registers that organisations are meant to keep up with, and mostly can't. We start with Australia's VET sector, done properly — and the same idea travels from there.
What we do
The register changes constantly. When a qualification or a unit is superseded, when a replacement is flagged not equivalent — the register records it and moves on. Register Radar is the thing that watches for you and tells you in plain terms what it means.
Everything that runs on public data is free, and always will be: a live scope check, the item 14 enrolment cut-off computed for every superseded product on that scope, the unit-by-unit map of each one — what stays, what is renumbered, what changed — a watch that emails you when your scope moves, a page for every training product with its full supersession chain, and an in-browser cross that shows which of your learners are affected — without your file ever leaving your computer.
You only ever pay for the one question the public register cannot answer: what all of this means for your own learners — each one measured against the current qualification and returned as a worksheet in keying order, with a dated decision log as your own record. Public data stays free because it costs us almost nothing to run; the paid work is the part no public source can do.
The story, plainly
Register Radar is one person: Jonathan, a software developer based in Spain. The gap it closes turned up in a deliberate search — reading Australia's VET machinery from the outside, looking for a problem one person could solve properly — when the national register turned out to publish every date, every supersession and every equivalence flag, and never join them up for the provider who has to act on them. Nobody's job was to do the sum.
So he built the thing that does it: a matter of weeks from the first line of code to launch, in August 2026, self-funded, no team, no investors. Small is the honest word for it — and small is also why every claim on this site is verifiable on the government register, why nothing that identifies one of your students ever reaches our servers — by architecture, not by promise — and why the person who built it answers your email himself.
We hold that honesty even against ourselves. For a while this site claimed the register did not publish what a qualification is made of, and we charged for working it out by hand. It was false — one mistyped request returned a 404 and we read it as “the data does not exist”. When we found out, we automated the map and moved it to the free side, where our own rule had always put it. We would rather lose a neat argument for charging than keep a false one.
Jonathan — Founder, Register Radar
contact@registerradar.com — a person reads every message
What we believe
Four rules we can be held to
Say only what the register says
Every number we send can be checked on training.gov.au yourself. We don't make legal claims, we don't judge anyone's obligations, and we'd rather write "we can't see that" than guess.
Free where it costs us nothing
Anything we can compute from public data costs fractions of a cent. Charging for it would just mean fewer providers finding out. What is paid is the work on your own learners, which no public source can do.
Hold as little as possible
The free cross never uploads your file — it runs in your browser. The paid engine does take a file, which is exactly why it refuses one carrying a name, a date of birth or a USI: we don't ask you to trust us, we reject it and name the column. Everything we hold is listed here.
A person answers
No ticket queues, no "your call is important to us". You write, and the founder replies. It's a deliberate choice, and one of the best features we have.
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 — free