Saving Hours for Compliance Teams
Quality Documentation. Complete Traceability
GoSmarter helps compliance teams stay audit ready with complete digital traceability and quality documentation. Instantly provide records to customers and auditors - all from one secure platform.
Key Capabilities
Mill Certificates
Read, extract, and store data from mill test certificates automatically. No more typing chemical compositions off a photocopy.
Material Traceability
Track every piece of material from goods-in to despatch with a complete, auditable chain of custody.
Quality Documentation
Capture inspection records and quality checks digitally at the point of work, linked to the right order, every time.
Compliance Reporting
Generate audit-ready reports in seconds. No more hunting through filing cabinets the week before an inspection. EN 10204 type 3.1 and 3.2 certificate formats supported as standard.
Export Your Data Anytime
GoSmarter is hosted in the EU and built for GDPR compliance. Export all certs, stock records, order history, and audit trails as CSV any time. No exit fees. No lock-in. Your data stays yours.
Audit-Ready
Generate complete, audit-ready compliance documentation in minutes with full digital traceability linked to every material, order, and mill certificate.
Stop Losing Sleep Over Compliance
The Opportunity
You need to stay compliant without slowing production. GoSmarter automates mill certificate processing, builds end-to-end traceability, and keeps you audit-ready with less effort.
Our Mill Cert Reader automatically extracts heat numbers, grades, chemical compositions, and mechanical properties from PDFs, scans, and photos. Every certificate is linked to the correct stock item, creating a complete digital traceability record from goods in to dispatch.
Our Compliance Engine flags missing or incorrect grades, properties, and heat numbers before material reaches production. No manual checking. No spreadsheet hunting. Just confidence that the right material reaches the right job.
Most customers are processing certificates within hours and are live within a day. Once certificates are linked to stock, audits, traceability, and compliance become significantly easier.
Every cert linked. Every trace complete.
GoSmarter reads each certificate, links it to the right stock, and builds the audit trail automatically. Compliance that holds up when it matters.
The Savings
Why GoSmarter
8–12 hrs
60%
Live in a Day
100% Digital Audit Trail
100% Material Traceability
Fewer Compliance Errors
What Each Role Gets Back
GoSmarter is built specifically for the metals industry. It handles the certificate types, traceability requirements, and audit pressures that metals businesses face. It was not adapted from a generic document management tool.
Quality Managers
Audit prep drops from two to three days to a 30-minute search and export. Every cert, stock movement, and despatch record is linked and searchable, with automatic flags for grade mismatches before the job starts.
Store Managers and Goods-In Teams
Certificates link to stock automatically the moment material arrives. No typing heat numbers, no filing paper, no hunting for a cert on material that's since been cut into five separate jobs.
Sales and Technical Teams
Retrieve any customer's certificate in under a minute. The full chain of cert, stock, production job, and despatch is one search away.
Customer Spotlight: Midland Steel
Midland Steel, a leading supplier of reinforcing steel in Ireland and the UK, used GoSmarter’s Mill Certificate Reader to automate a process that used to take hours every week: matching certificates to Heat Codes by hand.
GoSmarter now classifies, extracts, and stores every certificate automatically, pulling heat numbers, CEQ values, and chemical and mechanical properties without anyone typing a single value.
- 120+ hours of production manager time saved every year
- Fewer errors in certificate records
- Faster answers when customers ask for full product lineage
“I logged in for the first time and was up and running in minutes. Compliant Steel AI now pulls all the key info—chemical composition, mechanical properties—automatically. What used to take hours every week is done in seconds.”
— Production Manager, Midland Steel
What's the Payback?
Most customers recover their annual subscription within the first 90 days through reduced administration, lower compliance costs, and fewer quality issues.
Use our free Business Case Calculator to estimate savings from reduced compliance hours, audit preparation, and quality costs. Export a PDF to review with your compliance team before booking a demo.
Common Questions
What is mill certificate management and why does it matter?
A mill certificate (also called a test certificate or material certificate) is the document a steel mill or metals supplier issues to prove that material meets a specified grade and standard. Without it, you cannot prove the material you used was fit for purpose. GoSmarter’s MillCert Reader reads these certificates automatically, extracting heat numbers, grades, and mechanical properties, and links them to the relevant stock and order, so you always have proof when you need it.
Does GoSmarter support EN 10204 compliance?
Yes. GoSmarter is built specifically for the metals industry, where EN 10204 certificate types (2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2) are standard. The system recognises these certificate formats and stores the relevant data fields, making it straightforward to demonstrate compliance during customer audits or regulatory inspections.
How does GoSmarter help during a customer audit?
Instead of spending days before an audit pulling certificates from filing cabinets and cross-referencing them with despatch records, GoSmarter lets you search and retrieve any certificate instantly. Traceability records are maintained automatically from goods-in to despatch, so the audit trail is always complete and always up to date. Not assembled in a rush the week before.
Does GoSmarter work with ISO 9001 or IATF 16949 quality systems?
GoSmarter keeps a permanent, append-only log across mill certificates, inventory records, and orders. Every change records before and after values, user identity, and a server-side timestamp. That is your direct evidence base for ISO 9001 Clause 8.5.2, International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949, and AS9100. Deleted items are tracked and recoverable. Nothing disappears from the record without a trace.
GoSmarter does not replace your quality management system, but it eliminates the manual data collection and re-entry that makes maintaining records under those standards so time-consuming. Read the full announcement → or why audit trails matter in metals manufacturing →
Compliance and Traceability from Day One
Most teams think compliance starts with a folder and ends with a signature. GoSmarter flips that. It turns the certificate into usable data the moment it lands, so traceability starts before the metal ever reaches the yard.
Procurement uploads the mill report. The system tags the material properties automatically instead of making someone retype and verify the same sheet. Quality sees flagged material early and approves it before the goods arrive. That changes the job from chasing paperwork to checking whether the material fits the order.
GoSmarter’s compliance features are available from the Starter tier. Most teams process their first batch of certificates automatically within an hour of signing up. Your existing certs upload directly. GoSmarter reads them from PDFs. No re-keying. No setup fee. No long-term contract. 50% off your first month.
Once your certs are linked to stock, the rest follows naturally. Cutting plans in the Production tier pull cert data to verify grade compliance before any job starts. Order traceability links cert records to despatch notes. Audit reports generate in seconds from data captured automatically. Not assembled in a rush the week before an inspector arrives.
Go deeper
- Mill Certificate Automation: The Complete Guide — how GoSmarter reads, extracts, validates, and stores every cert automatically
- Integrated Cert Traceability & Auditability — building a complete, auditable chain of custody from delivery to despatch
- Midland Steel Manufacturing Case Study — how a leading rebar supplier automated certificate handling and cut audit prep time
- How Scrap Reduction and Cert Digitisation Feed CBAM and ESG Reporting — turning your mill cert data and scrap rate into audit-ready carbon evidence for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) questionnaires and EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) declarations
- GoSmarter vs Generic OCR/IDP Tools for Mill Certificates — why metals-specific AI is the right choice for cert processing
- Integration Strategy — how GoSmarter connects to your existing systems, from standalone use to full REST API integration with your ERP
Build traceability in. From day one.
Every cert linked to stock at goods-in. Every heat number tracked to despatch. Every audit trail built automatically. Not assembled in a rush the week before an inspection.