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Practical writing for the NDIS care team.

Audit checklists, plan-review playbooks, family-side guides, and the things we keep seeing providers, support coordinators, OTs, and families get wrong. Short. Specific. No hype.

Why we built Pilot: support coordinators shouldn't have to invent the funding case at plan review

Plan review is the most important week of a support coordinator's year — and most spend it reconstructing 12 months of evidence from memory. The data exists across providers, families, and OTs. None of it flows. Pilot is the workspace built for the actual work.

The 35 policies an NDIS auditor expects to see

The 2025 Core Module redrew the policy landscape. 22 outcomes plus 8 supplementary policies plus a Child Safe Standards policy when children are on the books. The seven that block applications most often, what Child Protection has to cover, and what makes a policy pass the audit instead of just sitting in a folder.

Most NDIS apps are built for the agency. Compass is built for the family.

A typical NDIS plan runs 30 to 50 pages. A family deals with 4 to 12 providers across a plan's life. The agency, the OT, and the support coordinator all have systems. The family has a folder of PDFs. Why we built Compass.

Three numbers your NDIS SIL roster has to respect: 10h rest, 12h max, 76h fortnight

Worker fatigue is the quietest compliance gap in NDIS SIL. The three thresholds your roster has to watch, where they hide in cross-site rostering and casual pickups, and how auditors test for breaches.

NDIS SIL handovers: the audit risk hiding in plain sight

Handovers happen 1,460 times a year in a four-shift house. Auditors sample them more than incidents. The four ways handovers fail Stage 2 audits, and the four-field structure that fixes them.

Register or stay unregistered: the operator's decision framework for 1 July 2026

A costed, operator-voice framework for SIL providers deciding whether to register or pivot. Audit costs, revenue implications, readiness signals. No political commentary.

How much does NDIS SIL software really cost? (2026 public pricing breakdown)

Public pricing for every major NDIS SIL software platform as of April 2026. Per-user vs flat, annual cost at common operator sizes, no quote forms.

The PACE CSV format for NDIS providers (downloadable sample)

A field-by-field walkthrough of the 16-column PACE bulk upload CSV that NDIS-registered providers send through myplace, plus a sample template you can edit and test.

What NDIS auditors actually look for in sixty seconds

The three questions a Commission auditor tests in the first minute of a SIL engagement, the seven-section evidence pack you need ready to produce, and the five-step checklist between now and 1 July 2026.

NDIS Provider Registration 2026: what Butler's reforms mean

Mark Butler's 22 April reforms: 260,000 providers, only 16,000 registered. Mandatory registration expanded. What SIL providers do over the next 60 days.

NDIS SIL registration deadline 1 July 2026: the audit checklist that actually matters

The six pillars the NDIS Commission will look at, a 10-week countdown plan, and the three mistakes we keep seeing.