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Brocade vs Fixflo: Building Safety Act compliance vs repairs management
You may already use Fixflo for repairs. But when it comes to Safety Case Reports, checksummed audit trails, and integrated service charge management, a repairs platform was not designed to carry that weight. Here is where the two tools differ -- and where they can work together.
70%
BAC application rejection rate
GBP151/hr
BSR inspection rate
Up to 2 years
Imprisonment for non-compliance
About Fixflo
Fixflo is a well-established repairs and maintenance management platform used across over 1 million properties. The platform has added building safety features as modules alongside its core repairs management capabilities, including planned preventative maintenance, compliance matrix dashboards, and AI-powered FRA processing through its Aidenn Compliance acquisition.
Target market: Block management companies, property managers, and housing associations managing repairs, maintenance, and contractor workflows across large property portfolios.
Visit Fixflo website →BSA compliance-first vs repairs-first
If you have tried to track BSA compliance obligations inside a repairs platform, you have probably felt the friction. Tickets and work orders are a different shape to regulatory obligations, audit chains, and escalation rules. Fixflo is very good at what it was designed for -- compliance-first design is simply a different starting point.
With Fixflo
- Core platform built for repairs and maintenance management
- Building safety features added as modules and add-ons
- Compliance matrix dashboard for tracking obligations
- AI-powered FRA processing via Aidenn Compliance acquisition
With Brocade
- Built from the ground up for Building Safety Act compliance
- Regulation-aware workflows with BSA-specific escalation rules
- Every feature designed around compliance obligations, not repairs
- Compliance health grades reflecting actual regulatory status
70%
BAC application rejection rate
BAC published data, 2025
Safety Case Report preparation
Your Safety Case Report has to prove you understand and are actively managing risks in your building. If you are pulling compliance data from a repairs platform and formatting it manually, you already know how long that takes -- and how much can go stale between data pull and submission.
With Fixflo
- Compliance data spread across repairs and maintenance modules
- Safety Case Report generation not a core feature
- Manual compilation of compliance evidence required
- Compliance matrix provides overview but not structured reports
With Brocade
- Auto-generated Safety Case Report from live compliance data
- 11-section structure aligned with BSR expectations
- Always reflects current building compliance status
- One-click generation saves hours of manual report assembly
Financial integration for service charges
Safety works drive costs, costs drive service charges, and leaseholders have a legal right to see how their money is spent. If your repairs platform tracks the works but not the financial trail, that gap lands in your lap -- and the manual reconciliation that fills it takes time you do not have.
With Fixflo
- Focused on repairs and maintenance cost tracking
- Service charge compliance not a platform feature
- Financial transparency for leaseholders not available
- No demand generation or S.20B tracking
With Brocade
- Integrated service charge management from budgets to balancing charges
- Cost-to-action traceability linking charges to specific safety works
- Resident portal with transparent financial breakdowns
- S.20B notice tracking with automated deadline alerts
Audit trail standard
When the BSR asks you to demonstrate your records are tamper-evident, "we have activity logs" is the beginning of an answer, not the end of one. Activity logs show who accessed what. A cryptographic audit trail proves the records themselves have not been altered. That distinction is what the BSR is actually looking for.
With Fixflo
- Activity logging for repairs and maintenance actions
- Compliance-specific audit trail standard not publicly documented
- Record integrity verification not publicly documented
With Brocade
- SHA-256 checksummed audit trail on every compliance record
- Tamper-evident history chain with cryptographic verification
- Every change attributed to a specific user with timestamp
- Immutable record chain satisfying golden thread requirements
Purpose-built compliance workflows
FRA action tracking, scheduled safety checks with escalation, PEEP management -- these are specific regulatory workflows with specific requirements. Generic maintenance scheduling can approximate some of them, but approximation is not what the BSR is looking for when they ask to see your compliance records.
With Fixflo
- Planned preventative maintenance scheduling
- Generic maintenance workflows adapted for safety checks
- Contractor management for repairs-focused workflows
- PEEP management not publicly documented as a feature
With Brocade
- Dedicated FRA action tracking from finding to evidence to sign-off
- Scheduled safety checks with configurable frequencies and escalation
- Digital PEEP management with contractor portal access
- Multi-level notification chains: reminder, overdue, critical
28 days
BSR call-in deadline
Building Safety Act 2022, s.89
Feature Comparison
| Capability | With Fixflo | Brocade |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose-built BSA compliance | Add-on | |
| FRA action tracking | Via Aidenn | |
| Safety Case Report generation | ||
| Checksummed audit trail | Not publicly documented | SHA-256 |
| Service charge management | ||
| Resident financial portal | ||
| Repairs management | Via issues | |
| Contractor network | Portal access | |
| PPM scheduling | Safety checks | |
| PEEP management | Not publicly documented | |
| Compliance health grades | Compliance matrix | |
| Transparent public pricing |
Purpose-built BSA compliance
With Fixflo
Add-onBrocade
FRA action tracking
With Fixflo
Via AidennBrocade
Safety Case Report generation
With Fixflo
Brocade
Checksummed audit trail
With Fixflo
Not publicly documentedBrocade
SHA-256Service charge management
With Fixflo
Brocade
Resident financial portal
With Fixflo
Brocade
Repairs management
With Fixflo
Brocade
Via issuesContractor network
With Fixflo
Brocade
Portal accessPPM scheduling
With Fixflo
Brocade
Safety checksPEEP management
With Fixflo
Not publicly documentedBrocade
Compliance health grades
With Fixflo
Compliance matrixBrocade
Transparent public pricing
With Fixflo
Brocade
See how it works alongside your existing tools -- Safety Cases, audit trails, and service charge compliance that Fixflo was not built to cover.
When Fixflo might be the right choice
- Your primary need is repairs and maintenance management across a large portfolio, and building safety compliance is a secondary concern.
- You need a platform with an established contractor network and extensive block management integrations.
- You are already using Fixflo for repairs and want to add basic building safety tracking within the same platform.
Thinking about switching?
Many building managers run Brocade alongside Fixflo -- Fixflo for repairs and Brocade for compliance. Book a demo to see how Brocade handles the compliance side with the depth the BSR expects.
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Last updated: March 2026