We built the thing we kept needing .
FairCheck began at a kitchen table in Adelaide, watching someone do by hand what a machine should have been doing all along.
Storme runs an HR and employment relations practice. Part of that work is remediation. Someone believes they have been underpaid, and the only way to know is to go through it properly. The award, the classification, the shift times, the overtime, the public holidays. Every pay period. By hand.
One of those matters took days of evenings at the kitchen table. She was right, and the shortfall was substantial.
Vinny watched her do it, and asked the question nobody still inside the industry thinks to ask. Why is a person doing this?
That is the gap. Not that employers are dishonest, because most of them are not. The awards are genuinely hard, penalties and loadings stack in ways that are easy to miss, and the only people who could check properly were the people charging by the hour to do it.
So he started building the engine that does the days of work in seconds. Then we made it explain itself, because an answer you cannot check is worth nothing in compliance.
Who's behind it
A compliance product should tell you who is accountable for it. Here we are.
Vinny Paes
Co-founder · the original idea
FairCheck was Vinny's idea. He watched his wife spend her evenings buried in payslips, working remediation out by hand, award by award, pay period by pay period. After enough of those nights he asked why a person was doing it at all, and then started building the thing that does it in seconds.
Storme Paes
Co-founder · awards and people
The subject matter expert. Storme runs P&P Consulting, an Adelaide HR, employment relations, WHS and ISO practice, and spends her weeks inside the awards FairCheck interprets. If the engine reads a clause the way an inspector would, that is her work.
John Croucher
Co-founder & CTO · accuracy
The brains behind the technology. John owns the award interpretation engine and the testing behind it. His is the job that matters most in compliance: that the number FairCheck gives you is right every time, and that we can always show how we got there.
FairCheck Compliance Pty Ltd
Australian owned and operated. Registered in Australia, built in Adelaide, data handled under Australian privacy law.
What we stand for
Four rules we build to. They are also the reason you can hand our output to an auditor.
Explainable, always
Every decision is traceable to the clause it came from. If we cannot show our working, we do not show the number.
Defensible on the record
Checks, findings and the reasons behind them are kept and dated, so you have evidence if you are ever asked.
Prevention over clean-up
We would rather catch it the day before payday than help you calculate back-pay a year later.
You stay in charge
FairCheck flags what is worth checking. A person decides. It is a prompt to look, never a verdict on your business.
100 founding customers, then this closes · 100 places left
Be one of the first hundred
We are taking on a hundred businesses and bookkeepers who will use FairCheck on real pay runs and tell us the truth about it. In return you get the price we launched at, permanently, and a direct line to the people building it.
What you get
- Your launch price locked for as long as you stay, through every future increase.
- A direct line to the founders. Not a ticket queue.
- Your awards and your payroll system prioritised on the build list.
- Named on the founding customers wall, if you want to be.
What we ask
- Use it on real pay runs, not a trial file.
- Tell us when it is wrong, quickly and bluntly.
- Take a short call every so often so we can watch you use it.
No lock-in contract. Cancel whenever. The price is the thing you keep.