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The Golden Thread is the Building Safety Act’s requirement to maintain accurate, up-to-date information about a higher-risk building’s design, construction, and ongoing management throughout its lifecycle. It covers structural data, fire safety systems, maintenance records, and evacuation procedures. Brocade helps you maintain this thread systematically — so you can demonstrate compliance whenever the Building Safety Regulator asks.

If you manage a higher-risk building (18 metres or 7+ storeys with at least two residential units), you have legal obligations under the Building Safety Act including maintaining a Golden Thread, tracking fire risk assessment actions, and preparing for BSR assessments. While not legally required, compliance software like Brocade replaces error-prone spreadsheets with structured, auditable records that demonstrate active safety management.

Brocade follows the natural compliance cycle: upload your fire risk assessment, log actions with priorities and due dates, assign work to team members or contractors, collect evidence as work is completed, and verify completion. The compliance dashboard shows your status across documents, fire risk assessment actions, and scheduled checks — so you always know where you stand.

Yes — Brocade is designed for portfolios. The portfolio dashboard gives you at-a-glance compliance status for every building. Cross-building work views let you triage outstanding actions, issues, and checks across your entire portfolio. Consistent processes apply to every building, and per-building access control ensures team members see only what they need.

Residents get a mobile-friendly portal for their building where they can view the fire strategy, report issues with photo evidence, and track issue progress with email notifications at each stage. No app download is needed — the portal works in any browser. This supports the Act’s requirement for building managers to promote resident participation in building safety decisions.

Yes. Brocade uses a deny-by-default security model where every page requires authentication. Data is isolated at the database level using row-level security, all passwords are checked against breach databases, accounts lock after repeated failed logins, and API endpoints are rate-limited. Audit trails use tamper-evident checksum chains for compliance-grade evidence.

Spreadsheets have no document versioning, no automatic reminders, no access control, no audit trail, and they don’t survive manager turnover. Brocade gives you versioned documents, priority-based due dates, email reminders, evidence attachments, cross-building views, and a complete audit trail — and it’s just as easy to use.

Brocade pricing starts from a base fee plus a per-unit charge per building per month. Starter plans are designed for single buildings, Professional for growing portfolios, and Portfolio for managing agents with 10+ buildings. Start with a 30-day free trial with full features.

No. Brocade is designed for building managers, not software engineers. The interface uses plain language and guides you through compliance workflows step by step. A Getting Started guide walks you through setup, and contextual empty states show you what to do next. If you can use email and a web browser, you can use Brocade.

Absolutely. Start with a 30-day free trial with full Professional features. No credit card required for the first 14 days. Or get in touch using the form below and we’ll walk you through the platform and discuss how Brocade fits your situation.