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For construction and trades

Sites run on people.
The paperwork can wait.

Compono Hire is an applicant tracking system (ATS) for builders, contractors, engineering firms and trades businesses. It posts the roles and runs the pipeline any hiring system runs, and finds crews and supervisors who fit, with proof of the competence behind every licence. If award interpretation and payroll is the job, buy a payroll platform.

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Compono Hire · Candidates
Senior accountant25 candidates
Ranked on
Organisation fit 55%Quals 30%Skills 15%
NameFitStage
1Jerrell Padberg82Interview 1
2Virgil Van Dyke78Invited
3Matilda Hauck78Invited
4Jackie Dev78Talent pool
5Anna Boden74Talent pool
JPJerrell PadbergWork personality1 of 8Coordinator
Coordinator

Aligns with the team on responsiveness and customer focus. Lower on individual autonomy than the current team average.

Crews ranked on fit for the site

Hiring beyond the industry for transferable skills

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Work personality used in recruitment planning and team design

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4.8 out of 5 on CapterraISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified

How it shows up for construction and trades

A site supervisor and two crew reading a clipboard on the tailgate of a ute at a house build

Nearly half the trades you need are in shortage

Nearly half of all trade occupations remain in shortage on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List, with construction named among the sectors where the gap persists. Insufficient qualified applicants is the leading cause.

A program sequenced around who you can get rather than who you need.

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025 Occupation Shortage List

Crews churn in both directions

In the year to February 2026, 8.0% of construction workers left their job and 9.2% started a new one. That is a workforce being reshuffled constantly, and every arrival is a supervisor's week.

Induction and ramp-up paid for again, on every site, every quarter.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Job Mobility, February 2026

Safety culture gets set on site, whatever the policy says

Construction recorded 37 worker fatalities in 2024, at 2.8 deaths per 100,000 workers against 1.3 across all Australian industries. Who a supervisor is willing to stop, and who will speak up, is a culture question.

The kind of incident that no policy document prevents and no insurer forgets.

Source: Safe Work Australia, Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2025

The licence classes, tracked on a whiteboard

Schedule 3 of the model work health and safety regulations sets out the classes of high-risk work licence, each with its own currency. Most builders hold that in a spreadsheet and a folder in the site shed.

A crew stood down because nobody could produce the ticket on the day.

Source: Safe Work Australia, high risk work licence classes

Everything a good system tracks.
And what only Compono finds.

Compono Hire

The applicant tracking system (ATS) that finds crews who fit the site

  • Like any ATSJob-board advertising, applications and pipeline stages
  • And what only Compono findsFit for the role and the crew they would join

Hire advertises to SEEK and the boards and runs the applicant pipeline from a phone, which is the job any applicant tracking system does. Every applicant is also profiled against the role and the crew they would join. A supervisor gets a ranked shortlist with the reasons attached, on site, between inspections.

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Compono Assure

Competency management software that proves the competence behind the licence

  • Like any competency softwareLicence numbers, ticket classes and expiry dates
  • And what only Compono findsWhether the person can still do the work

Assure keeps the ticket register: licence numbers, classes and expiry dates against the person. It also holds role competencies in the same framework, with verification of competency assessed against it. A ticket says somebody passed once. A competency record says they can still do it.

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Compono Develop

The learning management system (LMS) that finds whether the induction landed

  • Like any LMSSite induction sign-ins, assignment and currency
  • And what only Compono findsWhether the training landed, before they reach the gate

Develop records the site induction sign-ins and the training currency your induction folder was holding. Site induction, plant refreshers, toolbox learning and role training are delivered the same way on every project and recorded against the person. Assessment inside the pathway tells you whether the training landed, with currency visible before they walk through the gate.

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This enables us to look beyond our industry to find quality candidates who have transferable skills and fit right in.

Joanna Plohl, Group HR Manager · Clarendon Homes

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Wherever you operate

The card has a different name in every market. The way Compono records it does not.

What it isAustralia and New ZealandEverywhere else
General construction inductionWhite Card recorded against the person as a competencyCSCS card in the UK and OSHA 10 or 30 in the US, recorded the same way
High-risk work licencesLicence classes held with their currency and assessment evidenceThe equivalent plant and access licences in your market, held the same way
Verification of competencyAssessed against your framework in Assure, with evidence attachedThe same framework and the same evidence, on any site
Security and hostingISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, with data hosted in Australia and New ZealandData is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits
AccessSingle sign-on with your identity provider, and integrations scoped per customerThe same setup wherever your team sits, with our partners page listing who we work with

What it costs

Indicative pricing by size band starts at circa $5.5k AUD a year for one product; every organisation in a band sees the same numbers.

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One platform, one engine.

Hire, Engage, Develop and Assure share the same validated behavioural science engine, so what you learn about people in one product informs the next. People decisions backed by behavioural science and AI.

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Compono Hire

A. Okafor, senior account manager

Culture Fit91%
Job Fit86%

88% overall fit

Compono Engage

Delivery team, 16 of 16 responded

InnovativeRisk Averse
ResponsivePlanned
CurrentDesired2 of 12 shown

3 of 12 dimensions misaligned

Compono Develop

Site supervisor, 42 people in the role

Safety leadership88%
Coaching others44%

68% capability held

Compono Assure

Working at heights, 38 people hold it

Verified competency recordCurrent

Renewal due 14 Mar 2028

Four products, one behavioural science engine.

Common questions

Yes. Compono Hire is an applicant tracking system (ATS) used by builders, contractors, engineering firms and trades businesses. It runs the pipeline from advert to offer and profiles every applicant against the role and the crew, so a supervisor can see why someone is ranked where they are.

Yes. Each one is recorded against the person as a competency, with its currency date and a reminder before it lapses. Compono holds and reports the record. Issuing the licence stays with the regulator and the training organisation.

No. Compono does not interpret awards, run payroll, roster crews or process visas. It sits beside the platform that does, and owns the part that one cannot: who to hire, and what they can actually prove.

Yes. Hiring runs on mobile, so a supervisor can open a requisition and move someone to interview from the site. Head office sets the standard and sees every hire without approving each one.

You define the competency, the assessment, the evidence you will accept and the re-assessment interval. An assessor records the result against the person. The output is a register you can hand to a principal contractor or an auditor.

At 150 people you sit in the 100 to 500 band, where one product runs circa $7k to $13k AUD a year depending on where you land, and a second product comes down by about 30%. Every business in a band sees the same numbers.

Yes, for the competency and licence side. You can hold records for people who are not on your payroll, so a project register covers everyone on site. Hiring workflows are built for the people you employ directly.

Compono is built and hosted in Australia and New Zealand, and the platform is written to travel. Data is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits. The card and the licence change name by market, and the way Compono records them does not.

Talk to us about crews and competency.

Tell us how many sites you run and where the licence records live today. We will show you the part of the platform that fixes it, on a pipeline like yours, and say so plainly if payroll is the real problem.

Rudy Crous, Compono's CEO, speaking on stage at a Compono event in Sydney

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