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Software & Buying Guides
Choosing and paying for fire safety compliance software, without the sales pitch.
Questions worth asking a fire safety software vendor before you buy
A demo is designed to show a product at its best. These are the questions that tend to surface how it actually behaves once real, messy data is loaded in.
30 July 2026 · 4 min readDigital fire door registers vs paper records: an honest comparison
Paper isn't wrong, exactly — it's just a format that stops scaling at a fairly predictable point. Worth knowing where that point actually is.
18 June 2026 · 5 min readHow to choose fire safety software for a property portfolio
The right choice depends less on any single feature and more on how the portfolio is actually structured — number of buildings, agents and contractors involved.
28 May 2026 · 5 min readWhat should a fire compliance platform actually include out of the box?
A baseline worth expecting, before add-ons and upsells enter the conversation — and a clear note on what shouldn't be expected from any platform.
2 April 2026 · 5 min readSpreadsheets vs a fire safety compliance platform: when is it actually time to switch?
A spreadsheet is a perfectly reasonable tool for one building. The question is recognising the point where it stops being reasonable.
26 February 2026 · 5 min readFire risk assessment software: what to actually look for
The features that matter most aren't the ones that demo well. They're the unglamorous ones that determine whether the system gets used consistently a year in.
29 January 2026 · 5 min readHow much does fire safety compliance software actually cost?
Pricing in this category varies more by portfolio shape than by feature list. Here's what tends to actually drive the number, in general terms.