About ClearRegs

Built by architects.
For the industry.

Building Regulations compliance develops across a whole project, but the information behind it scatters across drawings, schedules, email and individual knowledge. ClearRegs keeps it in one structured record: ClearRegs Projects, a compliance register organised around RIBA Plan of Work stages, and ClearRegs Search, cited research across the indexed Approved Documents and legislation. We built the compliance tools we wanted on our own projects, and made them available to the profession.

Our approach

Three principles that shaped ClearRegs

Every decision about how the platform works comes back to the same three principles.

01
Structured around how projects are delivered

Compliance is not a one-off check at Stage 4; it develops from concept to handover. ClearRegs Projects follows the RIBA Plan of Work stages so the register grows alongside the design, with requirements assigned, reviewed and evidenced as work progresses. The RIBA stages provide the project structure; the requirements themselves come from the applicable legislation and guidance.

02
Answers carry their source

A register is only worth as much as the evidence behind it. Answers from ClearRegs Search cite the source document and the relevant section, and can be attached to the requirement they relate to. Citations and linked evidence make an entry straightforward to review and substantiate later.

03
Grounded in the indexed sources

A fluent answer is not the same as a well-founded one. ClearRegs Search retrieves the relevant passages from its indexed sources first and answers from that material, citing what it drew on, so a response can be checked in context rather than taken on trust. Where the indexed sources do not cover a question, it is designed to say so rather than fill the gap. Inaccurate or unsupported information can affect design decisions and weaken a project's compliance record, so we would rather return less and cite it.

How quality is managed

Built to be checked, not taken on trust.

A compliance register is only as good as the research behind it. We test ClearRegs Search regularly against a set of Building Regulations questions and use the results to improve it. Answers name the document and page they drew on, so you can check them against the source, and ClearRegs Search is designed to say so when it cannot find supporting material.

Where we are going

The ClearRegs roadmap

What is live today, what is in development and what sits further out. Items beyond the live sections are indicative and may change.

Live now
ClearRegs Projects: compliance register

A project compliance register for architects, principal designers and other construction professionals.

Register organised around RIBA Plan of Work stages 0–7
Gateway status and named responsibilities
Drawing register with revision tracking
Cited answer → project evidence linking
Register items organised against the Gateway 2 and 3 stages (higher-risk buildings)
Exportable compliance schedule and evidence pack
Live now
ClearRegs Search: cited regulatory research

A cited search tool across the indexed legislation and Approved Documents for England. The full document register lists every source and edition.

Approved Documents A to T, all 22 current volumes
Building Safety Act 2022, full text
Building Regulations 2010, consolidated
CDM Regulations 2015
Multi-turn conversation within session
Volume-aware retrieval (AD B Vol 1 vs Vol 2)
Coming soon
Knowledge base expansion

Filling the remaining gaps in the regulatory corpus, so the register can draw on more of the framework.

Regulations made under the Building Safety Act, including the higher-risk building procedures
BSR guidance on the Gateway 2 and 3 processes
Approved Document 7, materials and workmanship
Improved retrieval coverage for Part K
Approved Documents for Wales
Horizon
Platform expansion

Longer-term products that extend the ClearRegs platform toward a full compliance workflow for the built environment.

ClearRegs for Revit: element-level compliance in BIM
ClearRegs for Building Control: application validation tools
Scotland and Wales regulatory corpora
PAS 9980 and CIBSE TM52/TM59, subject to licensing
Application pre-submission validation (BCO-facing)
What we believe

The principles behind the platform

Building safety needs professional judgement

Building safety depends on careful professional judgement supported by reliable regulatory information. ClearRegs is built to support competent professionals rather than to replace their judgement, and it is not a shortcut: it gives you a structured way to research requirements, manage them across a project and present the record.

Scope and limitations stated

We would rather you check an answer than take our word for it, so answers show their sources. We state which sources are indexed and which are not, and we separate what is live from what is in development. You should be able to tell what the platform does and does not cover before you rely on it.

Informed by practice

ClearRegs was built by people who work with these regulations every day, and it is shaped by the day-to-day workflow of architects and principal designers rather than designed in the abstract. Where the platform is used on live projects, what we learn there feeds back into it.

Start with a project

Start a trial and set up your first compliance register — RIBA Plan of Work stages, responsibilities and drawings in one place, with cited answers from the indexed Approved Documents and legislation built in. For a demonstration of ClearRegs Projects, get in touch.

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