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.

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.

Evaluation, July 2026

We tested ClearRegs Search against 493 questions. Here is what we found.

A compliance register is only as good as the answers filling it, so we measure the search behind it. We ran a structured evaluation of ClearRegs Search across all indexed Approved Documents: 493 questions, each answer checked against the relevant source material. We publish the counts and the method so you can judge the scope of the evaluation for yourself.

Each answer was checked against two separate criteria: whether it included the expected technical terms, and whether it cited the expected Approved Document. 381 answers met both. None met neither. The remaining 112 met one of the two.

This evaluation measures expected term coverage and citation targeting. It does not assess whether an answer is technically or legally correct, whether the cited passage supports every claim, or whether guidance has been applied appropriately to a particular project. It is run in house rather than independently, and re-run when the indexed documents are materially updated. Reading the 112 back by hand against the source documents showed that a share of them were answers we would accept, marked down because they used different wording from our expected term list, so the counts understate rather than flatter.
381
Answers that included the expected technical terms and cited the expected document
112
Answers that met one of the two criteria
0
Answers that met neither
493
Questions evaluated across Parts A–T

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 a curated collection of legislation, Approved Documents and other indexed regulatory sources for England.

Approved Documents A–T, all active volumes
Building Safety Act 2022: key provisions
Building Regulations 2010, as amended
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.

Building Regulations 2010 and amendments (secondary legislation)
BSR guidance on the Gateway 2 and 3 processes
BSA 2022 secondary legislation (full index)
Improved retrieval coverage for Part K
Wales Technical Guidance documents
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, CIBSE TM52/TM59 guidance indexing
Application pre-submission validation (BCO-facing)

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 publish the accuracy evaluation and the method behind it rather than making claims about it. 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.