Register Radar is live.

What I found on the way in

Before writing a line of product I read every registered training organisation in Australia against the national register — all 3,884 with a current registration, live scope only, and re-read the whole census again today so every figure on this page comes from the same morning.

The number I did not expect is this one. 43% of providers — 1,672 of them — have at least one superseded unit of competency sitting on their live scope and not a single superseded qualification, course or skill set. Read down your qualification list and everything looks current, because it is. What moved is a unit inside it.

It is not a rounding error either: 378 of those providers have more than twenty, and 86 have more than fifty. For the sector as a whole, 26% have a superseded qualification, course or skill set; 69% have something superseded once you count units. The full method, the exclusions and what it does not prove are in the census, and every number in it can be checked against training.gov.au yourself. That last part matters more to me than the number.

So here is the thing I built

Register Radar reads training.gov.au and the legislation behind it, works out the date each superseded product on your scope stops taking new enrolments, and emails you when your scope moves in a way that changes what you have to do — a qualification superseded, a core unit superseded, a replacement the register itself marks not equivalent, your registration status changing, or a product of yours landing on the National Schedule of upcoming reviews.

Everything that runs on public data is free, and will stay free. Not free for a trial, not free until we grow — free because it costs me almost nothing to run and charging for it would only mean fewer providers finding out:

• The scope check — type your RTO code, see what is superseded on your live scope right now. No account, no card.
• The date the law puts on each one — the register publishes everything needed to work out when a superseded product stops taking new enrolments, and never does the sum. We do, for every product on your scope. Learners already enrolled are not on that clock.
• The scope watch — an email when something on your scope is approaching that date, or when the register changes what you have to do. One click stops it.
• A page for every training product — what replaced it, whether the register calls the replacement equivalent, and the whole chain when the replacement is itself superseded.
• The enrolment cross — drop in your enrolment export and see which learners sit in affected products. It runs inside your browser; the file never reaches me.

There is one paid thing, and I will be plain about it rather than hide it in a footer: The Transition File measures every one of your learners against the current qualification and writes the working down, dated and fingerprinted, for your own records. That is the one question the public register genuinely cannot answer, because who is enrolled in what only exists in your student management system. Everything above stays free whether you ever buy it or not.

Who is actually behind this

One person. I am Jonathan, a software developer, and I am based in Spain — which is a fair thing to raise an eyebrow at when the subject is Australian VET compliance. So I built the whole thing so you never have to take my word for anything: every figure we send you comes from the public register and names the day it was read, we make no legal claims and judge nobody's obligations, and when we cannot see something we write that we cannot see it rather than guess.

No investors, no team, no sales department. The trade is honest: you get something small and new, and in exchange the person who built it reads your email and answers it himself.

What I would like from you

Put your RTO code in and look at what comes back. It takes about ten seconds and you do not have to give me anything to see it.

Then — and this is the part I actually want — tell me it is useless and tell me why. I would rather hear "we already knew all of this and here is what we really struggle with" from one person who does the work than keep building on my own guesses. A polite "looks great, well done" teaches me nothing, and I would honestly rather have the blunt version. Reply to any email we send, or write to contact@registerradar.com. It reaches me, not a queue.

And if you would rather just watch quietly from a distance for a while: that is completely fine too. The watch is free and it stops with one click. You are not on any list and I do not send newsletters — and that part is written into the code, not just into this page. When an alert carries a real finding, the foot of it names the paid service once, with a link. That is the whole of it: no sequence, no follow-up, no second email about it.

Thanks for reading this far.
Jonathan Fernández
Founder, Register Radar