Honest comparison
Pervidi is a flexible, 20-year-old configurable inspection toolkit used across FM, healthcare, oil & gas, transport, and more. Core is a finished lifting, rigging, and height-safety platform with the compliance frameworks and service-company workflow already built.
Built for Lifting Inspections. Not Configured for Them.
Pervidi is a generic toolkit you adapt to your business. Core arrives already shaped for lifting, rigging, and height-safety service companies — with LOLER, ASNZ, and ASME compliance, batch inspection, and unlimited customer portals on day one.
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Which one is right for you?
A straight call. We'd rather you self-select the right fit than push the wrong tool.
Choose Pervidi if…
- You need on-premise or self-hosted deployment for regulatory or data-sovereignty reasons.
- You run a generic, multi-domain inspection program — FM, EHS, contractor audits, lifting — all in one platform, and the lifting piece is one part of a wider use case.
- AI image defect detection and voice-to-report are essential to your roadmap today, not nice-to-haves.
- You have internal teams who can invest months in configuring forms, certificate templates, and workflows for your industry.
Choose Core if…
- Your business is lifting, rigging, or height-safety inspection — and the platform should arrive ready for that.
- You want LOLER, ASNZ, ASME, and LEEA compliance frameworks pre-built, not modelled from scratch.
- You want customer-facing online equipment registers as a feature you can sell and retain accounts with.
- You inspect at field volume — hundreds of similar items per visit — and need batch capture, not 200 individual forms.
- You want to be productive on day one of implementation, not month three of configuration.
Where Core wins
Three reasons inspection businesses switch to Core
Vertical-ready, not configurable-to-vertical
Pervidi pitches itself as a toolkit — same product across many industries with very different processes. To inspect a chain sling, harness, or crane on Pervidi you configure forms, build certificate templates, and model the compliance logic yourself. Core ships those as native objects. Chain sling, harness, fall-arrest, crane, hoist, eye bolt, shackle, and beam-clamp templates load on day one. The compliance frameworks (LOLER, ASNZ, ASME, LEEA) are reflected in form structure, certificate format, and approval levels — not findable in a template library.The service-company motion is the product, not a use case
Pervidi can be configured to support a service-provider workflow, but it isn't built around it. Core models the full loop natively: quote → schedule → multi-branch dispatch → restrictive competency rules → on-site inspection → branded customer portal → service charges → invoice. Customers are first-class objects, not metadata on a checklist. Branches, technicians, and customer-facing reminder cadences are part of the data model, not configuration.Faster time to value, not a multi-month configuration
Pervidi reviews emphasise customisation depth — and the substantial up-front configuration that goes with it. A new Pervidi customer is in a configuration phase. A new Core customer is running real inspections in their first week. For a service company waiting on customer-deliverable certificates, that difference is the difference between revenue this month and revenue next quarter.
Side-by-side: Core vs Pervidi
| Capability | Core | Pervidi | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-built lifting forms and certificates | Out of the box | Configure or commission | Weeks of setup saved for a lifting inspection company. |
| LOLER / ASNZ / ASME logic | Native (frameworks shape form, certificate, approval) | Must be modelled | Compliance frameworks are first-class in Core. |
| Service-company workflow | Native | Configurable | Customer-facing scheduling and billing built in. |
| Customer portal | Unlimited, included, branded | Available | Every customer of yours gets a branded portal at no per-user cost. |
| Multi-inspect batches | Native | Limited | Inspect 200 chain slings as a batch, not 200 forms. |
| Restrictive competencies | Enforced at scheduling | Tracked as data | Competency rules become scheduling constraints in Core. |
| On-premise / self-hosted deployment | Cloud only | Cloud or on-premise | Pervidi's edge for air-gapped or sovereignty-constrained buyers. |
| AI image analysis | Roadmap | Available (2024) | Pervidi has a head start here. |
| Voice tagging / speech-to-report | Limited | Available | Useful for hands-busy inspections. |
| Public Capterra / G2 review depth | Named case studies + testimonials | Small review base | Different evidence types — peer reviews vs named customers. |
Why Core, in five lines
The same five things matter no matter which competitor you're evaluating.
Built for the inspection service business
Quote → schedule → inspect → certify → bill is the workflow. Most competitors stop at 'inspection completed'.
Multi-region compliance in one platform
LOLER, ASNZ 2550, ASME B30, and LEEA Code of Practice ship together — not as separately purchased modules.
Unlimited customer logins
Every one of your customers gets a branded portal to view equipment and certificates — no per-portal-seat charge.
Multi-inspect for batch capture
Inspect 200 chain slings as a single batch with shared metadata. Drill into defects only.
Restrictive competencies enforced
Only certified technicians can be scheduled to certain inspection types — competency becomes an operational rule, not just a data field.
From operators who switched
“Core has modernised our business and given our customers the oversight of their legal requirements that they were looking for.”
Director, Scotia Handling Services — migrated 300+ customers onto Core in three months
FAQ
Does Pervidi support LOLER inspections?
Pervidi can be configured to run LOLER checklists, but it doesn't ship a LOLER ROTE certificate, lifting-specific registers, or UK regulatory vocabulary out of the box. Core ships those as native objects — the LOLER framework shapes form structure, certificate format, and approval logic by default.