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The HR brain Australian SMEs subscribe to, not hire.

Grounded on 4,226 published Fair Work Commission and Federal Court decisions plus 14,130 registered enterprise agreements, updated weekly. Cited answers in under a minute. Business Solo A$49.99/mo; plans from A$29.99/mo, cancel anytime.

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Business Solo — Pro for employers, plus your AI HR team

The employer tier for owner-operators and small teams: everything in Pro, framed for the employer. Six AI specialists answer your Fair Work, payroll and safety questions — grounded on current awards, the NES, FWC decisions, Federal Court case law and Australia’s WHS prosecutions record. Answers cite the decision, award clause or Act section they rely on.

  • Full AI HR team — Scout (recruiter), Pulse (HR manager), Sync (HR systems), Sentinel (compliance), Atlas (data) & Beacon (WHS & safety)
  • WHS & Safety Advisor with live data — duties, incidents, psychosocial risk, grounded in Australia's WHS prosecutions record
  • 200 AI questions per month
  • Business-context grounding — upload 1 HR / contract / policy doc; cited on every relevant answer
  • Branded PDF exports — your logo + accent on letters and documents
  • FWC + Federal Court case-law citations — answers cite the decision they rely on
  • Document upload (5 chat docs/mo) — contracts, payslips, warnings
  • Employer-framed responses (separate from consumer prompts)
  • Australian owned and run · cancel anytime

A$49.99/mo

Was A$99/mo. Cancel anytime.

Renews monthly at A$49.99 until you cancel. By continuing you agree to our Terms.

Or try the advisor first — sign up and ask your first question.

Got a team? Business — A$249/mo

3 seats, 600 questions/mo shared, Microsoft SSO on request. Extra seats $79/mo.

Renews monthly at A$249 until you cancel. By continuing you agree to our Terms.

Just want answers? Pro — A$29.99/mo

The case-law-cited advisor + document drafting on its own, 150 questions/mo — no AI HR team included. Upgrade any time.

Renews monthly at A$29.99 until you cancel. By continuing you agree to our Terms.

Or: book a 15-min walkthrough →

Included in Business

Meet your AI HR team

Six AI specialists — Scout (recruiter), Pulse (HR manager), Sync (HRIS), Sentinel (compliance), Atlas (data) and Beacon (WHS & safety) — grounded in real Australian workplace law, your award rates and Australia's WHS prosecutions record.

Meet the team →

Contract & onboarding pack

Award-checked contract, letter of offer, Fair Work statements checklist and the first-pay minimum for a new hire. Free preview; Word and PDF included in Pro and Business.

HR Day — staff compliance calendar

Add your staff and get their probation, casual conversion, information statement, junior rate and wage review dates, with a calendar download. Free for up to 3 staff.

Watch the HR brain answer a real question

Same question a HR manager would field on a Tuesday morning. Same answer — cited, drafted, delivered in well under a minute.

1

You ask

“Can I refuse a flexible work request from a parent with a 3-year-old?”

from the HR inbox · 9:14am

2

Brain retrieves...

  • Fair Work Act s.65
  • Chandler v Westpac [2025] FWC 3115
  • Quirke v BSR [2023] FWC 2357
  • Secure Jobs 2023 amendments
3

You get the answer

Probably not. Under s.65 (post-Chandler), generic productivity grounds fail the test. Draft response ready →

Cited · about 20 seconds

Animation loops. Answers include source links to the decisions they rely on.

The cost of being compliant, two ways

25-staff Australian SMB, 2026 midpoint figures.

Traditional HR stack

  • Full-time HR Manager (fully loaded)$150,000/yr
  • Employment lawyer retainer$6,000/yr
  • HRIS / HR software$4,200/yr
  • Modern Award subscription$1,200/yr
  • Total~$161,400/yr

FairWork Mate stack

  • FairWork Mate for Business (3 seats)$2,988/yr
  • Ad-hoc lawyer (3–6 hrs/yr)$2,500/yr
  • Payroll software (existing)$1,800/yr
  • Modern Awards (included)$0
  • Total~$7,288/yr

Could save ~$154,000 a year vs an HR manager + lawyer retainer (estimate).

Full breakdown: HR manager cost in Australia · The compliance stack replacing $150K HR teams · Workplace guides for employers · Cost to Hire calculator · Employer compliance calendar 2026-27

You have received an unfair dismissal claim: the next 7 days, and whether to get a lawyerThe Commission asks for your response within 7 days (Form F3). What to check first, what conciliation costs, the $95,050 cap, and when a lawyer pays for itself.You have received a general protections claim: the reverse onus, and what to do firstThe employer must prove the protected reason was not why it acted, and there is no compensation cap. What the response needs and when to get advice.Workplace investigations: how to run one that holds up, and when to bring in a lawyerA flawed investigation is the most common reason a dismissal fails. Allegations in writing, a chance to respond, a support person, an uninvolved decision-maker.Show cause letters and dismissal: running a process the Commission will acceptWarnings, a show cause letter, a real chance to respond, then a proportionate decision. What the Commission checks, the small business Code, when advice pays.Making a role redundant: the three legal tests, and where employers get it wrongA redundancy defeats an unfair dismissal claim only if the job truly went, consultation was done and redeployment was considered. The employer checklist.Found an underpayment: fixing it, self-disclosure, and the criminal wage theft lineIntentional underpayment has been a crime since 1 January 2025. Honest mistakes are not, but 6 years of back pay is owed either way. How to fix it.
All legal help guides

FairWork Mate Insights · Data Index

One of Australia's richest workplace datasets

Explore the data →

89 live indicators — enforcement, insolvency, pay, casualisation and skills demand — computed across government datasets and updated continuously. Figures no generic tool has.

60/100
Employer Distress Index (our own)
$710M
tracked enforcement outcomes
20.3%
of workers are casual
293
occupations in shortage

Why FairWork Mate

Built for Australian employers, not adapted for them

The three things that separate this from a general-purpose AI assistant given a workplace-law prompt.

An Australian company, for Australian business

Run and managed from Australia, built around the Fair Work Act, the National Employment Standards and Australia's award system from day one — not a US tool with a local skin.

Australian data, combined into one AI

14,130 registered enterprise agreements, 4,226 published Fair Work Commission and Federal Court decisions, the Fair Work Act and its regulations, Fair Work Commission award pay data and Safe Work Australia codes of practice — one tool, not six separate government websites.

Sourced, not guessed

Built on the sources Australian HR professionals use

Pay rates are checked against the Fair Work Commission's own documents and every calculator is tested against hand-worked examples before release. The advisor answers from those sources — the Fair Work Act, modern awards, FWC decisions and enterprise agreements — not a general-purpose AI assistant guessing at how Australian law is applied. It is AI, not a person, and no human reviews individual answers: check anything you rely on.

Corpus figures are read from our database and refreshed at least hourly.

Ready to talk?

Tell us your team size and the compliance problem you’re trying to solve. A person, not a bot, reads and answers every enquiry — usually within one business day. Pay monthly, no lock-in contracts, cancel any time.

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Looking for a plan for a single payroll team? Email us and we’ll tailor it.

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