About
We make Australian compliance navigable.
Rules Mate is Australia's searchable index of every compliance obligation, regulator, Act, enforcement action and deadline. We summarise the regulatory landscape in plain English with every claim linked to its primary source.
Why we exist
Australian businesses face 134+ live federal and state compliance obligations across 60+ regulators. Most are scattered across regulator-specific portals, written for lawyers, and updated without notice. SMBs spend ~7 hours a week on compliance and the ASBFEO estimates $160B/year in national compliance burden — but no neutral, comprehensive, plain-English index has existed.
We built one. Every obligation tells you who must comply, what triggers it, when it's due, what evidence you need, and the maximum penalty— with a direct link to the regulator's authoritative source.
Who it's for
- Compliance officers — a single place to search obligations across regulators.
- Founders & CEOs — quick sanity-checks on what applies to their business.
- Accountants, lawyers, brokers, bookkeepers — client advisory + Tranche 2 prep.
- Boards & auditors — directors' duties + governance reference material.
How we work
- Every claim cites its source. We link, we never republish full statutory text.
- We never scrape AustLII (their published TOS prohibits it). All cases sourced from regulator-direct + court-published feeds.
- The corpus is updated on a weekly cadence with on-demand updates for major regulatory changes.
- We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice.
What's coming
- AI advisor — ask compliance questions in plain English, grounded in the live corpus, with citations on every answer.
- Per-business compliance map — enter an ABN, get the personalised obligations + calendar.
- Document generation — AML/CTF programs, Privacy Policies, WHS risk registers (gated on PI insurance).
Contact
Press, partnership and content corrections: hello@rulesmate.com.au
Operated by SP Williams Holdings Pty Ltd (ACN 683 151 304) as part of the Mate Network.