AusComply is the established digital incident register leader for Australian licensed venues — more than 2 million incident reports logged since 2015, multi-state coverage, dual register for liquor + security, FRT bundled. Venue Axis is built around different ground: gaming-native Floor App, AML/CTF depth, the L&GNSW CL1002 working surface. Different problems they're each purpose-built to solve.
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We're Venue Axis. This page is written by us. We've tried to keep the comparison architectural and honest, including where AusComply leads. If you spot something that mischaracterises AusComply or its Corsight AI integration, email hello@venueaxis.com.au and we'll review and correct.
Established digital incident register for Australian licensed venues since 2015. AusComply reports more than 2 million incident reports logged. Dual-register capability covering liquor and security incident types in one product. Multi-state regulator compliance across NSW, ACT, NT, QLD, VIC. Bundled FRT integration via Corsight AI. Free gaming incident register add-on with every subscription. Competitive pricing, no lock-in.
Strongest fit: multi-state venues running both liquor and security registers; venues that already prefer Corsight AI for FRT; clubs whose primary compliance need is incident logging without AML/governance scope.
Three-portal compliance platform anchored to L&GNSW CL1002. Built gaming-native — Floor App structured around the RGO pipeline (observation → welfare check → CDD → SMR), not the security-guard pipeline. AML/CTF depth via server-side anomaly detection on EGM data, four-stage SMR process, patron risk scoring that weighs recent activity more heavily. Vendor-agnostic FRT — webhook adapter pattern, no single FRT vendor lock-in. Currently NSW-focused with multi-state expansion sequenced post-pilot. Register+ at $99/mo in year one ($129/mo after) for sub-AML clubs; Full per-EGM for above-threshold.
Strongest fit: NSW gaming-focused venues; clubs at or above the AUSTRAC AML/CTF threshold; venues running quarterly CL1002 self-audits manually today; venues that want FRT-vendor flexibility rather than bundled Corsight.
Both platforms produce digital records. They're organised around different primary objects.
AusComply's primary object is the incident. Every workflow starts from a captured event — a patron altercation, a refused entry, a machine fault, a welfare concern. The incident becomes a row; the row gets categorised, tagged, supported with evidence, and eventually exported when the register is queried at audit time. The strength of this shape is that the user model is familiar (\"log what happened\") and the UX is well-tested across millions of captures. The trade-off is that the obligation-to-evidence path runs in reverse: at audit time, you query the register to find evidence supporting an obligation, rather than the obligation pointing at its evidence directly.
Venue Axis's primary object is the obligation.Every CL1002 Part is a tracked record with its own evidence trail; operational events (incidents, welfare checks, training completions, SE register lookups) attach to obligations as live evidence records as they're captured. The strength of this shape is the audit traversal — an inspector asks "show me how you handle Part 18" and the platform points at the live obligation record with its full evidence appendix linked. The trade-off is that the mental model is less familiar; staff need a small adjustment from "log the incident" to "the incident is evidence for an obligation we're tracking continuously."
For venues whose primary compliance work is logging incidents for end-of-period reporting, the register-first shape is optimised for that job and AusComply is mature at it. For venues whose primary compliance work is demonstrating ongoing adherence to specific regulatory obligations (CL1002, AUSTRAC AML/CTF Amendment Act 2024), the obligation-first shape is structurally aligned to that demonstration.
Neither is wrong. Different optimisation targets.
Bold cell indicates which side leads. "Split" means neither leads outright; the right answer depends on venue context.
AusComply is the established digital incident register (DIR) for Australian licensed venues, operating since 2015. AusComply reports more than 2 million incident reports logged across hundreds of customers in NSW, ACT, NT, QLD, and VIC, with more than 60,000 reports added each month (auscomply.com.au/company) — one of the largest real-world incident-register datasets in the country. Its core differentiator is a dual-register capability covering both liquor incidents and security incidents in one product, with multi-state regulator compliance built in. AusComply has publicly announced an FRT partnership with Corsight AI (BusinessWire, 2023); confirm current integration scope on AusComply's product page before relying on it for procurement. A free gaming incident register module is described in AusComply marketing material as included with the DIR subscription. Pricing is competitive for incident-register-only deployments; AusComply does not publish a price card.
Origin and shape. AusComply is built register-first — every workflow starts with an incident row, with a strong incident-register track record and multi-state regulatory configuration baked in. Venue Axis is built obligation-first — every operational event links to an L&GNSW CL1002 Part via a live evidence record, with AML/CTF, FRT, governance, and CEO board pack as platform-native surfaces rather than additional modules. For incident-register-only use, AusComply has a deeper track record on the register and is price-competitive for register-only use. For clubs that need AML depth, CL1002 alignment, and floor-to-board traceability in one platform, Venue Axis is the closer fit.
Five places clearly. (1) Incident register track record — AusComply reports more than 2 million incidents logged across hundreds of venues since 2015, with more than 60,000 added each month (auscomply.com.au/company). That's a database of real-world edge cases no newer platform has yet encountered. (2) Multi-state coverage — NSW + ACT + NT + QLD + VIC out of the box, while Venue Axis is currently NSW-focused with multi-state expansion sequenced post-pilot. (3) Dual-register (liquor + security) — for venues that need both, AusComply removes double-entry. (4) Price point — AusComply is price-competitive for incident-register-only deployments, before you factor in the AML/CTF/CL1002 surfaces Venue Axis adds on top. (5) No-lock-in contracts — removes a procurement objection that any new entrant has to work around.
Six architectural points. (1) Gaming-native, not liquor/security-native — Venue Axis's Floor App is structured around the RGO pipeline (observation → welfare check → CDD → SMR), not the security-guard pipeline (observation → refuse → log). The workflows look similar but the data model diverges. (2) Obligation-to-evidence linkage — every incident links to an L&GNSW CL1002 Part via a live evidence record; the inspector's "show me the evidence" question is a one-click traversal. AusComply's register is a searchable log. (3) AML/CTF depth — four-stage SMR process, patron risk scoring that weighs recent activity more heavily, server-side anomaly detection on EGM data, evidence of why each alert was triggered. AusComply has no AML capability beyond incident logging. (4) CL1002 working surface — 75 Parts mapped end-to-end, ~76% answered automatically from operational data, one-click audit-pack export. (5) Three-portal architecture — Floor App + Manager Desktop + CEO Portal as role-aware surfaces sharing one record. (6) Vendor-agnostic FRT integration — Venue Axis treats FRT vendors as plug-in adapters; AusComply is integrated specifically with Corsight AI.
AusComply integrates facial recognition through Corsight AI specifically — that's the bundled FRT capability, operationally fast to deploy. Venue Axis takes a vendor-agnostic posture: we treat FRT vendors as webhook adapters and lead with vendors whose integration model honours our never-store-templates boundary (Vix Vizion is our primary integration target). Already running Corsight? Our adapter pattern can integrate it the same way — event metadata in, biometric content rejected at the boundary. AusComply's bundle is faster to deploy out of the box; Venue Axis gives the venue control over which FRT vendor to use without re-platforming compliance. Different procurement philosophies, both workable.
For incident-register-only use, AusComply is price-competitive; we can't do a head-to-head on a published basis because AusComply doesn't publish a price card. Venue Axis Register+ at $99/month in year one is the comparable surface for sub-AML clubs. For above-AML-threshold clubs, Venue Axis Full is per-EGM and likely priced above an incident-register-only AusComply subscription — but Full includes AML/CTF, FRT, AI helpers, and CEO board pack, capabilities AusComply does not market in its DIR product and that clubs typically buy separately. The honest comparison: if you only need an incident register, AusComply is a strong call; if you need the broader compliance picture, Venue Axis is a single-vendor stack and the total cost across vendors is the figure to compare.
AusComply's multi-state coverage (NSW + ACT + NT + QLD + VIC) is genuinely operational today; Venue Axis is currently NSW-focused with state expansion sequenced post-pilot. For clubs operating across multiple states that need a single incident register today, AusComply removes double-vendor friction. As Venue Axis ships state-specific obligation trees and CL1002-equivalent working surfaces for other jurisdictions, the coverage gap narrows — but for a club with venues in three states needing immediate compliance today, AusComply's deployed multi-state coverage is the practical answer in 2026.
Practically rare but possible. A venue could run AusComply as the security/liquor incident register while running Venue Axis for gaming, AML, and governance — but the data fragmentation across two registers creates audit-pack assembly friction and inspector confusion ("which register do you maintain — and why two?"). Most decisions land on one platform. The decision turns on which workflow is dominant: if liquor + security incident logging dominates the day-to-day, AusComply wins. If gaming + AML + governance dominates, Venue Axis wins.
AusComply is the digital incident register; CL1002 is the L&GNSW 75-Part Club Licence Self-Audit Checklist that inspectors walk through on the day. AusComply's coverage of CL1002 is partial-by-design — it answers the questions about Part 2 (Liquor operations and approved incident register), supports Part 11 (Security and crowd control), and contributes to Parts adjacent to liquor service. The wider CL1002 surface — gaming, AML/CTF, harm-minimisation, governance, RSA/RCG tracking, financial reporting, fire safety — sits outside AusComply's product scope. Venue Axis is structured around CL1002 as the unifying frame: every Part has a home in the platform and is handled through operational activities — answered automatically from floor data, tracked continuously, scheduled, surfaced for staff, hosted in the platform, or integrated from external systems. For clubs whose primary self-audit pain point is the breadth of CL1002 rather than the depth of any single Part, the difference is structural.
What inspectors ask for first, where the five clusters of findings come from. The incident register is one of them.
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The 75-Part audit document inspectors walk through, and how Venue Axis is structured around it.
The full library — six vendor comparisons, free tools (the obligation tree, the CL1002 explorer, the regulatory horizon), and regulatory explainers — is at /resources.
For NSW gaming-focused venues the cleanest comparison is the trial. First three months free, no card up front, full export of your data if it's not the right fit. Multi-state venues should email us about state-coverage roadmap.