Ask a question — WIDEN Law retrieves the relevant sections of the National Quality Framework, the Education and Care Services National Law, and the National Regulations, and summarises what they say with inline citations to the source.
The National Quality Framework, two acts, hundreds of regulations, ACECQA guidance, state regulator policies — finding the specific section that answers your specific question takes 20 minutes when it shouldn't take 20 seconds.
Each one is technically right; none of them answer your actual question directly.
ChatGPT will invent a Regulation 76(3)(b) that sounds plausible and isn't real. Not a defence in front of a regulator.
For a question that should take a quick check against the right section. Not viable for routine questions.
By which point a Notice of Practice and a Compliance Direction are already on the way.
A research assistant — not an answer engine and not a compliance certifier. It surfaces what authoritative sources say. Your compliance lead applies them.
e.g. What are the educator-to-child ratios for children under 24 months in an outdoor area?
Searches an indexed corpus of the NQF, National Law, National Regulations, and ACECQA materials — returns the top sections that actually address the question.
Every claim is footnoted to the section it came from. Source links open the original DHA / ACECQA / AustLII page. If the corpus doesn't answer, it says so — no fabrication.
Inline footnotes, source links, and an explicit refusal-to-answer when the corpus doesn't have the section.
On the Centre and Group plans, upload a policy, procedure, or premises photo. WIDEN Law compares it against the NQF and surfaces gaps — with the same citation-required discipline.
Upload a PDF or DOCX. Get back what the document covers well, what's missing, and questions to raise with your compliance lead.
Upload a photo of a room, outdoor area, or equipment. Quality Area 3-focused observations with citations.
Files encrypted at rest, auto-deleted after 30 days. Photos with children visible are automatically refused — Privacy Act / state regulator landmines we don't go near.
Three tiers. 30-day free trial, extended to 60 days if you submit 5+ feedback ratings in month 1. Cancel anytime.
Annual billing available at 2 months free — see pricing page for the toggle.
No. WIDEN Law is a research assistant. It surfaces what the authoritative sources say, with citations. It does not interpret those sources for your specific facts, does not certify compliance, and is not a substitute for professional legal or compliance advice. Your compliance lead remains responsible for interpretation and decisions.
National Quality Framework, the National Quality Standard's 7 Quality Areas, the Education and Care Services National Law (Vic Act 2010, adopted by all states), the Education and Care Services National Regulations 2011, and ACECQA guidance materials. State-specific regulator content is being added progressively.
Every answer is generated against retrieved chunks from the corpus, with explicit instructions to cite [n] inline after every substantive claim and to refuse when the retrieved sources don't directly answer. If you see a citation in the output, the source page is linked underneath — clickable verification, every time.
Files are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest the moment they reach the server, processed once to produce your analysis, and automatically deleted from disk after 30 days. The analysis output and metadata (filename, hash, what citations were used) are kept as an audit record. The encryption key is in environment configuration separate from the database. See the privacy policy for the full detail.
Every uploaded photo passes through a conservative classifier before any compliance analysis runs. If it detects any children's faces, bodies, or identifying features (including from behind or at distance), the upload is automatically refused. The Privacy Act and state regulator exposure of processing identifiable children's images is not worth it for either of us. Take the photo without children in frame.
Keshab Chapagain — Registered Migration Agent (MARN 1576536), operating Dynamic Consultancy Pty Ltd (ABN 19 167 039 250). WIDEN Law is one of three WIDEN products, alongside WIDEN AI (practice management for migration agents) and SponsorTalent (employer-sponsorship marketplace).
The platform is built to be extended to other regulated domains, but the corpus and prompts are currently childcare-specific. Once we have meaningful childcare adoption and feedback that says the model works, we'll extend domain by domain — with a vertical expert in the loop for each one. Don't sign up expecting aged care answers today.
Plain-English research summaries on the parts of the NQF that come up most often. Free to read, no sign-up.
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