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Independent assessor
£79 /month
1 assessor included
- 5 report credits per month
- Unwatermarked PDFs + AI drafting
- Action register + 1 free reviewer seat
Fire risk assessment app
A fire risk assessment app for housing assessors who want the report drafted before they leave site.
FRA Flow is a tablet-first fire risk assessment app built around how UK housing assessors actually walk a building. Observations, photos, locations and risk scores attach to BS 9792 sections in real time. The same platform handles the post-visit drafting and reviewer sign-off.
No card. Two reports a month, free forever.
- Tablet-first capture
- Works offline on flaky 4G
- BS 9792 aligned
Why most FRA apps still leave you reconciling photos later
Capture is only half the job. The rest is keeping the link.
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Pure mobile capture is not enough. Most apps record observations but leave the report writing to Word, so the link between site and report breaks at the desk.02
Generic camera roll workflows lose evidence linkage. By the time you write up, you cannot remember which photo was the FD30S door on the third-floor lobby.03
Form-based apps force the building into a vendor template. Housing assessments are not the same shape as a generic compliance form.04
Offline capture often loses data. A flaky 4G signal in a basement should not cost you the risk score you just recorded.What the app does on site
A capture flow built for how assessors walk a building.
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Walk and record
Open one tool. Walk every floor and every common area. Capture observations against the right BS 9792 section as you go.
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Photos as evidence, not files
Photos attach to the observation they evidence. No reconciling a separate camera roll three days later.
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Risk scores in context
Score each significant finding on the building, with reasoning, while the context is fresh. Not from notes the next morning.
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Offline when you need it
Capture works without signal. Sync happens when you are back in range. Nothing lost, nothing rebuilt from memory.
Three things a housing FRA app should do that most do not
Built for housing FRAs, not generic compliance.
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Tablet-first, not phone-first
A 32-flat block needs a screen you can read in a stairwell. The app is built around the iPad-class device assessors actually use on site.
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Built for the after-visit, too
The capture flow feeds the drafting flow on the same platform. No exporting a CSV into Word three days later.
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Housing-specific structure
Locations, observations, and risk scoring use the housing FRA mental model: buildings, floors, common parts, escape routes. Not a generic compliance form.
Walking a building with FRA Flow
What capture actually looks like on the tablet.
You arrive at a four-storey purpose-built block on a Tuesday morning. You open FRA Flow on the iPad and create the assessment. The app pre-populates the building structure, so you start with a place to attach observations rather than a blank canvas. As you walk the lobby, ground floor, and the common stairs, each observation drops onto the right location and the right BS 9792 section automatically.
Each photo links to the observation that motivated it. The fire door on the third-floor lobby, the gap on the strike side, the missing self-closer: all three observations carry their photos through to the final report. The risk score you assign on site, with the reasoning typed in context, survives every step from sync to sign-off.
The basement riser cupboard has no signal. The app keeps capturing locally, including photos, observations, and risk scores, and queues them for upload. Twenty minutes later you are back on the ground floor with 4G, and the queued observations sync without you having to do anything. The link between observation and evidence holds. By the time you walk out of the building, the structured material that becomes the report is already on the platform, ready for the drafting flow that evening or the next morning.
How we build
Designed beside experienced UK housing fire risk assessors.
FRA Flow is built in close collaboration with practising fire risk assessors who run UK housing FRAs every week. Every workflow choice, from how observations attach to BS 9792 sections to how the reviewer queue surfaces exceptions, is informed by real housing assessment work, not generic compliance-software thinking.
That collaboration shapes our editorial discipline too. Pages on this site are reviewed by people who have done the work, not by generalist marketers. We do not publish invented metrics, we do not run a "trusted by" logo bar before a customer has shipped a report through the platform, and pre-pilot status is stated where it applies.
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Pages are dated. Every meaningful page carries an Updated date stamp.02
Pages are attributed. Every page has a named author byline.03
Stop-slop discipline. Every push that touches marketing copy goes through an automated scan that blocks AI drama before deploy.04
BS 9792 references are sourced. Standards content links to BSI, legislation.gov.uk, and our own standards reference.Plans and pricing
Priced like a report production system.
Reviewer and admin seats are free on every paid tier. Report credits are pooled across the team so one busy assessor does not run out while another has spare capacity. Annual billing saves around 17 percent. See full tiers, including the free tier and Enterprise, on the pricing page.
Practice
Small consultancies, 2–10 assessors
£249 /month
+ £49 /month
- 8 report credits per assessor
- Unlimited free reviewer + admin seats
- Client branding profiles + QA workflow
Consultancy
Multi-landlord teams, 10–25 assessors
£499 /month
+ £79 /month
- 15 report credits per assessor
- Per-landlord branding + multi-client dashboard
- Priority support + bulk report packs
Prices shown are monthly. Save around 17% by switching to annual at checkout. See full pricing details for overage rates and feature comparison.
25+ assessors, SSO, or a custom integration?
Enterprise plans start from £1,500 / month and include a named CSM, SLA, and custom domains.
How we compare
Where the app fits next to the tools you have used.
If your team currently uses a phone camera plus paper notes, FRA Flow replaces the reconciliation work between visit and report. Observations land in structured form on site, photos attach to findings as you record them, and the report starts drafting from what you actually captured. See the Word FRA template alternative for the side-by-side.
If your team uses PocketSurvey, you keep the tablet-first capture you are used to and pick up the report-drafting and reviewer workflow that PocketSurvey leaves to you. The capture pattern is similar; what comes after the visit is where FRA Flow does the work.
If your team uses Riskbase, the change is positioning. Riskbase is form-builder oriented and PAS 79-shaped. FRA Flow’s capture flow is BS 9792-shaped and built so the photos, observations, and locations carry through to the reviewer without an export step.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask before they commit to a new workflow.
FAQ 01
Does the app work offline?
Yes. Capture is local-first. Observations, photos, and risk scores save to the device immediately and queue for sync. When you are back in 4G or wifi range the queue uploads in the background. A basement riser cupboard or a poor-signal stairwell will not lose data.
FAQ 02
Which tablets does the app support?
iPad on iOS 17 and later, recent Android tablets on Chrome, and modern web browsers on Chromebooks and laptops. The app is delivered as a progressive web app, so there is no separate native install or app-store dependency. Most assessors use an iPad on site.
FAQ 03
How does the app feed the report?
The capture flow and the report drafting workflow are the same platform. Observations, photos, and risk scores you captured on site become the structured input the AI drafts narrative findings from. There is no export step, no CSV import, and no separate desktop tool to reconcile against.
FAQ 04
Is AI in fire safety reports a liability risk?
AI in FRA Flow accelerates drafting but never signs off. Every AI-generated paragraph is editable, auditable, and traceable to the photo, observation, or risk score that produced it. The competent person signs off the report, not the AI. The audit trail records who approved which version against which evidence, which strengthens defensibility under the Fire Safety Order 2005 rather than weakening it.
FAQ 05
Where is our customer data stored?
All customer data, including database, file storage, and AI inference, runs in UK or EU regions only. Nothing leaves the European Economic Area. Full security and data-handling details are on the security page.
FAQ 06
How long does it take to learn the app vs the one we use today?
Most assessors run a full FRA in FRA Flow on day one. The capture flow follows the way a housing assessor already walks a building, so the learning curve is the platform, not a new methodology. A typical first job through FRA Flow takes about the same time as a familiar tool, and every subsequent job is faster as the structured evidence pays off downstream.
Try the app on your next housing FRA.
Create your account in under a minute. Two reports a month, free forever, no card. Or book a 30-minute walkthrough if you would rather see it driven on a real building.