STAGED PROTOTYPE CertPlain is a prototype concept. This form and every demo on this site are staged and not connected to any live service — TEST MODE, no real submissions, no real decodes.
CertPlainS10.7 DECODER · NSW

White-label s10.7 decoder · for NSW conveyancers

The planning certificate,
decoded before your clients ask.

CertPlain turns any NSW s10.7 planning certificate into a firm-branded, plain-English summary — notation by notation, every claim cited to the certificate section it came from, with the uncertain bits flagged instead of guessed.

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37/37 guard self-testUnknown notations are forced to escalate, never interpreted [verified 2026-09-28]
4 synthetic certsPrototype decodes: clean → heritage+flood → nasty → adversarial [verified 2026-09-28]
Your brand onlyThe client view carries your firm's skin; CertPlain's name never appears on it. Pilot-stage claim [unverified]

01 · THE PROBLEM

Every contract carries a certificate no client can read.

A s10.7 planning certificate is annexed to every NSW contract for sale [verified 2026-09-28]. Your buyers receive dense council prose about zoning, heritage, flood planning, contamination and road widening — and either don't read it, or read it and worry. Meanwhile you're translating the same notations, matter after matter, on the clock.

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Pre-exchange review is where it matters — and where time is shortest

The certificate lands in the contract pack days before auction, sometimes less. Reviewing a nasty one takes 30–60 minutes of senior attention [unverified]. CertPlain's staged triage runs in about 2 minutes [unverified].

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Clients get silence, or a dense email they skim

"We've reviewed the contract, all fine" builds no trust and no differentiation. A branded one-page summary in plain English is a visible reason to choose your firm [likely].

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Guessing is the risk, not speed

Machine triage inside a conveyancer's file is only defensible if every claim is traceable. CertPlain's accuracy regime: no citation, no claim — unrecognised notations are hedged or escalated, never interpreted [verified 2026-09-28].

02 · THE PRODUCT

Two views. One for the file, one for the client.

The decoder produces a working document for the conveyancer and a simplified summary the firm sends under its own brand. The staged sample below is fictional — but this is the shape.

Conveyancer view INTERNAL

  • ✓Full notation-by-notation breakdown with exact certificate section cites
  • ✓Traffic-light rating + auditable severity-score table
  • ✓Risk flags ranked by severity: what it says → what it means → what could go wrong
  • ✓Suggested client advice lines — drafts for you to settle, never auto-sent
  • ✓Escalation prompts with the specialist or enquiry recommended

Client view YOUR BRAND

  • ✓Your letterhead, matter reference, date — CertPlain's brand never appears
  • ✓One-page plain-English summary: what's clean, what needs attention
  • ✓Same traffic light — no score table, no section numbers, no jargon
  • ✓"Questions we're checking for you" — your review framed as active work
  • ✓Standard disclaimer: general information, not a substitute for your legal advice
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03 · HOW IT WORKS

Upload at pre-exchange. Done before the kettle boils.

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Certificate in

Upload the PDF of the s10.7(2)+(5) certificate to the matter — or forward what the selling agent sent. Works inside your normal pre-exchange review window.

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Decode with guardrails

Notation-by-notation decode against a rulebook of known certificate language. Anything unrecognised or ambiguous is hedged or escalated to you — never silently interpreted. Every claim cites its section.

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Your skin on the output

The client view renders under your firm's branding — logo, colours, disclaimer. The working view stays on your file with the full traceability trail. You settle the advice lines before anything goes to the client.

What the decoder does

Built for a file, not a demo stage.

  • ✓Traces every claim to the certificate section it came from — no cite, no claim.
  • ✓Rates clean / flagged / escalate on a documented severity-score methodology.
  • ✓Forces unrecognised notations into a hedge-or-escalate template as a code path, not a judgement call — 37/37 self-test green [verified 2026-09-28].
  • ✓Surfaces cross-section dependencies (e.g. a notation qualified by another section) instead of resolving them.

What it doesn't

The honest half of the pitch.

  • ✕Not legal advice. General information only — the conveyancer makes the call, always.
  • ✕Doesn't opine on title, doesn't make the buy/no-buy decision, doesn't auto-insert contract clauses.
  • ✕Rulebook is trained on synthetic certificates — real-council wording variation across ≥5 councils is still untested [verified gap 2026-09-28].
  • ✕The adversarial tests were authored by the same team as the rulebook — they prove internal consistency, not real-world unseen failure modes [verified 2026-09-28].

04 · STAGED DEMO

See what a decode looks like.

A fully staged sample built from a synthetic certificate — fictional firm, fictional property, fictional council. Toggle between the conveyancer working view and the firm-branded client view.

Sample: heritage-listed home, part-lot flood planning area

Fictional matter 2026/1847 · synthetic certificate CERT-02 · staged output

AMBER — score 4

Flag 1 — Heritage item + conservation area (certificate s2) — severity 2. Inter-war bungalow, heritage conservation area: external works need consent; demolition effectively unavailable.

[staged sample — fictional certificate]

Flag 2 — Flood planning area, part of lot (certificate s9, s10) — severity 2. Rear of block within flood planning area; dwelling above the mapped level per council advice; confirm insurance pre-auction.

[staged sample — fictional certificate]

Clean on: acquisition, road widening, bushfire, contamination, mine subsidence, paper subdivision.

[staged sample — fictional certificate]
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05 · PRICING

Price on application. Pilot pricing first.

CertPlain is pre-launch. Pilot firms will shape the final pricing — the directions below are sketched models [unverified], designed to sit comfortably inside a normal disbursement schedule. All figures AUD.

DIRECTION A

Per-matter

$75 / decode

Single s10.7(2)+(5) certificate, both views generated. No commitment, no seat management — lowest adoption friction. Firms can on-charge as a disbursement line.

  • Conveyancer view + firm-branded client view
  • Firm on-charges to the client as a disbursement [unverified]
DIRECTION B

Firm licence

$490 / month per office

Unlimited decodes with the white-label skin included. Self-selects for firms running 7+ matters a month [unverified]; stickier — annual contracts embedded in the workflow.

  • Unlimited decodes, full white-label skin
  • Priority rulebook updates as councils change wording [unverified]

All pricing figures are modelled sketches [unverified] — not market data, not a quote. Pilot firms will be priced individually; final pricing follows the pilot. The certificate fee itself runs roughly $71–$178 depending on council [verified 2026-09-28]; CertPlain's pricing is designed to sit sensibly beside it as a review product, not another certificate.

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06 · FAQ

Straight answers.

Is this legal advice?
No. CertPlain produces general information from the certificate — a triage of what the certificate says, in plain English. It never makes the buy/no-buy call, never opines on title, and the conveyancer settles every advice line before it reaches a client. Always get advice from your own legal practitioner.
What happens when the decoder meets wording it doesn't recognise?
It hedges or escalates — by design. Unrecognised or ambiguous notations are forced into an escalation template: the notation quoted literally, marked "no interpretation offered", with the recommended specialist or enquiry. That behaviour is enforced as a code path and self-tested 37/37 [verified 2026-09-28].
How does the white label work?
Your firm sets its logo, colours, name, footer and disclaimer text once. Every client view renders under that skin; CertPlain's brand never appears on what the client sees. The conveyancer view carries a small "powered by" mark [unverified in production].
Which certificates does it handle?
NSW s10.7(2) and combined s10.7(2)+(5) certificates, metro residential to start. The prototype rulebook covers standard Schedule 3 ordering and phrasing; non-standard council layouts are an explicit escalation trigger. Real-world certificate variation across councils is the known sharpest risk and is still untested [verified gap 2026-09-28].
How is client data handled?
Pilot design assumes certificates are processed per matter with no cross-matter data pooling [unverified]. Final data handling will be settled with pilot firms and their solicitors — it is not resolved in this prototype. Nothing on this site collects real certificate data; the demo is staged and the form is not connected.
Are the sample decodes real?
No. Every sample on this site is staged from synthetic certificates — fictional addresses, councils, firms and figures. They show the shape of the output, not real certificate data.

Give your clients the certificate in plain English — under your brand.

Pilot intake is staged and not connected in this prototype. When we launch properly, pilot firms will help set the pricing and the rulebook.

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