252 obligations, the requests they raise, and who signs them off

Monday was King's Birthday in Queensland, so the product update went out on Wednesday.

That holiday moves contract deadlines, and since this release Demiton moves them too. Take a delay that starts on Thursday 1 October, under a contract that gives 10 business days to notify it. The same clause gives two different deadlines depending on where the job is:

Business days count each state's own public holidays, read from its own calendar, and security of payment windows apply each Act's own Christmas exclusion, from Queensland's BIF Act to Western Australia's. Victoria's exclusion applies from 15 April 2026, when its amendment took effect. A day early is fine. A day late on a notice that bars the claim is the whole claim.

Before

Found the clause. The window shut Tuesday.

With Demiton

Notice in on day three. The claim stands.

Live in Claude's connector directory

Demiton is now listed in Claude's connector directory, alongside the other tools Claude can reach. Anyone on Claude can add it from there: search for Demiton, sign in with your Demiton account, and the connection is made. There is no configuration file to edit and no key to paste.

From then on, any Claude chat can ask your registers a question, such as which tickets on a job lapse this month or which claim windows are still open, and the answer comes from your connected systems with the register it was read from. What each person can see follows their role in Demiton, the same as in the app. What the connector does.

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252 obligations, and which ones Demiton can check

Two weeks ago the library held 135 obligations from 34 instruments. It now holds 252 from 73, each read from the instrument's current text and carrying its clause:

What came in:

• Security of payment in every state and territory. South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory joined Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, so every Australian job has its own Act's payment claim and schedule windows. Victoria's Act was re-read after its 2025 amendment.
• Notifiable incidents under all eight Australian WHS and OHS Acts (Qld, NSW, Vic, WA, SA, Tas, ACT, NT): notify immediately, written notice within 48 hours, keep the record for five years. New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 adds its own 24 hour notice before defined notifiable work, which has no Australian equivalent.
• AS 4902-2000, the design and construct form, beside AS 4000 and AS 2124: extension of time, latent conditions, notice of claim and the final payment claim.
• Long service levies in every state and territory, both kinds: the project-value levy in Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory, and the wage-based employer levy in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, the ACT and Tasmania.
• CLOCS-A and Transport for NSW TS 00088, covered below.

What missing them costs:

Not all 252 can be checked, and the product says so. Demiton can check an obligation when a register it reads holds the evidence. Of the 252, 149 can be checked on a project, 10 are checked once across the whole organisation (a licence or an insurance certificate is the company's, not the job's), and 93 cannot be checked yet. The largest reason, for 41 of them, is that no register Demiton reads collects the evidence. For some of those, a request now asks a person to upload the record, and an approved upload meets it. Every obligation shows which of the three it is, and an obligation that cannot be checked shows the reason, never a red miss.

The Obligations tab was rebuilt around that. Pick one or more projects to see what each has declared, or a place to see what binds there, grouped by source. The default view puts each duty on one card with every instrument that imposes it, so a payment claim duty read from six Acts reads across one line. Each line opens its trace: the clause, what missing it costs, who signs it off, the register it reads, and on a project its live result. Search finds a duty by its words or its clause, and every trace has a link you can send to someone. Every instrument has a public page with each of its clauses at /standards.

When a protection fires, one person answers it

Until this release a protection raised an alert, and an alert went to whoever was watching. Now it raises a request, sent to the person who answers for that obligation on that job.

• It is answered once. Only the people asked can answer it, it follows each person's channels and digest settings, and it closes when its result clears.
• It carries its money. The amount at stake and its currency are read from the record that raised it, never assumed. An amount in New Zealand dollars is never added to one in Australian dollars, so the inbox ranks requests by money within each currency.
• Evidence is approved by a second person. A request asking for a record is met by an upload, and it counts only once someone other than the uploader approves it.
• Missed claims close in the product. An open claim window is an open finding with its amount, the Countdowns band lists every one, and a notice served after the deadline reads as missed, never cleared.
• The crew check asks on the day. When a worker whose ticket has lapsed is allocated to a job today, the morning check asks the site for evidence before they start.

Answering a request from the phone is built and in internal testing on Android, where a decision button on the notification opens the request in the app. The iPhone app waits on Apple's developer enrolment.

Before

Client audit. The insurance lapsed last week.

With Demiton

Renewed at 30 days. Gate's open.

Who signs off

A request needs a person, so each organisation's delegation of authority is now one screen, under Projects as Who signs off: six ladders of at most three rungs, then each job's holder for every role, their Offsider, and any gaps.

• Name anyone by email. A member is given the role. Anyone else is invited with it, and the job is held for them until they join.
• A job nobody holds is not dropped. Its requests go to the organisation's admins and its champion until someone is named.
• The champion and site managers can invite their own crew, as a worker or a role at or below their own, from their own email domain, up to 20 a day.
• Invites accept any sign-in that proves the address: the emailed link, email verification, or Google. Before, only Microsoft accounts could accept, and everyone else landed in a new, empty organisation.

A new Leaderboard tab ranks signed wins by the person who acted: cash recovered plus cost avoided, one board per currency. A loss is shown only to the person who held it and the role directly above them, and is in nobody's totals.

One clock for each claim, delay and incident

A contract window used to be measured against the latest record of its kind. Now each claim, delay, incident and non-conformance gets its own deadline, met only by its own notice. Two delays a fortnight apart on an AS 4000 job, or under TMR's Transport Infrastructure Contract, are two extension of time claims with two deadlines. A run of delay days is one delay, ended by a clear diary or by seven days with no diary at all. A notice that cannot be dated is never read as met, and never hides a later one's lapse.

The site check runs at three times a day in the site's own time zone: 5:00 before the crew arrives, 12:00, and 14:30 before pack-up.

CLOCS-A from your Navman data

CLOCS-A is the heavy vehicle standard that Transport for NSW's TS 00088 makes mandatory, at its Bronze tier, on its GC21 contracts. It is now 14 cited obligations, with 6 from TS 00088, offered on every Australian job as an obligation your client's contract can require.

A vehicle counts toward a job on a day its Navman ignition is within 2 km of the site, dated in local time. Each truck gets its own result for the daily pre-start and for speed and harsh driving monitoring. Plant operated without a pre-start is flagged across the organisation. The quarterly Appendix D1 report lists vehicles on site, movements, collisions, pre-start compliance and every duty's status, and prints to PDF. A metric Demiton did not collect is marked as not collected, never estimated.

A privacy fix

The Raised tab on Alerts listed every alert raised for the organisation, so any member, including a worker invited in, could see the title, trigger and amount of a request sent to someone else. It now lists only the alerts sent to you. An admin who used it as an organisation-wide feed will see less there.

Also this week

• Pricing. Free covers one job worth under AU$2M. Baseline is AU$55,000 a year, flat to AU$100M of contract value under watch. Enterprise starts above that. Insights and Connected are no longer sold.
• The last switch flipped. The four general protections are now the only thing that decides what runs, so the obligations ticked on each project are what is checked. Last update named this as next.
• A missed check is reported within the hour. If a protection that is switched on writes no results, the champion is told.
• Asking Demiton through Claude. A rolled-up register reports its true total, not a sample count. Operations managers can ask about expiring tickets without being given HR records. Allocations and plant assignments read as of today in your organisation's time zone when no period is given.
• Signing in. Field roles are no longer turned away by the contract check, a new sign-in never sees the previous person's cached data, and an expired session refreshes instead of reading as missing access.
• Search. ⌘K lists the pages you were on, with their trail.
• The security page names its two exceptions to data residency: model inference on Azure OpenAI and web search through Exa.
• Comics. The Bridgeworks strips moved to demiton.io/comics, Nos. 0 to 7, and the homepage opens on one of them.

What's next

Requests answered from the phone, for everyone, and the iPhone app once Apple's enrolment clears. Then fewer of the 93: each obligation Demiton cannot check yet is a register to read or a record to ask for.

And still the one this series is waiting to report: a protection that fires on a live job, catches something real, and is signed off with cash recovered. When it happens, it goes here with the date.

If your state, contract form or principal has an obligation the 252 do not, check /standards, then tell us. The clause is public. Knowing which ones bite is the work.