The AI-Native Compliance & Building-Systems Group for the UK Built Environment
Assurance,
engineered to endure.
Certera acquires and partners with the UK's leading compliance and building-systems businesses — uniting regional champions on one shared platform, with assured AI at its core, to keep buildings safe, compliant and running.
01 — Who We Are
One group.
Three convictions.
Compliance and building systems keep the modern built environment safe — and they are delivered by thousands of exceptional, founder-built specialist firms. Certera gives the best of them a permanent home: capital, technology and shared infrastructure, without erasing what made them great.
Long-term by design
- We buy to build, hold and compound — never to trade.
- Founders' brands, teams and accreditations are preserved.
- Legacy is protected and extended, not absorbed.
One shared platform
- Finance, compliance and accreditation management.
- Group procurement, recruitment and bid support.
- A shared engineering bench across the group.
AI at the core
- Assured, source-traceable report and certificate generation.
- Computer-vision defect detection and intelligent scheduling.
- Every output auditable — engineers amplified, never replaced.
02 — What We Do
End-to-end services
across the built environment.
Certera companies deliver essential compliance services and mechanical maintenance across the built environment.
Compliance Services
Water hygiene & treatment
Legionella control under ACoP L8; monthly monitoring regimes
Fire & safety (active)
Alarms, extinguishers and emergency lighting
Asbestos
Surveys and management for pre-2000 buildings
Air quality
LEV testing under COSHH; TR19 duct hygiene
Gas control
Annual CP12 landlord certification
Mechanical Maintenance
Passive fire
Fire doors, stopping and compartmentation
Doors & gates
Fire and automatic door checks and servicing
Lifts & escalators
LOLER six-monthly thorough examinations
BMS & controls
Building systems and live building-data feeds
Security & CCTV
Martyn's Law duties; PSTN switch-off upgrades
03 — The Certera Platform
Specialists in front.
One engine behind.
Compliance work lives or dies on accreditation, competent persons and trust — so we never centralise what makes a business excellent. Every Certera company keeps its brand, its people and its client relationships, and gains a group engine behind it.
Each acquisition makes the platform stronger — every inspection, every certificate and every asset feeds one shared compliance knowledge base that benefits every company and every client in the group.
- UKAS, SafeContractor, CHAS management
- ISO 9001 / 14001 / 45001 systems
- Group audit and technical governance
- Shared pool of competent persons
- Cross-company technical resource
- Training, mentoring and career paths
- Auditable report and certificate generation
- Computer-vision defect detection
- One compliance data layer across the group
04 — For Founders
Built something that matters?
Give it a permanent home.
We buy regional champions in the stickiest sub-verticals — fire & safety, water hygiene, doors & gates — then strengthen each region with local specialists that deepen footprint and add skills.
Your name stays on the door: a group of regional brands, each leading its territory, all powered by one shared-services platform.
Start a Conversation- 1
Meet
A confidential conversation, founder to founder. No brokers required, no obligation.
- 2
Agree
A fair valuation and honest terms — founders and senior leaders can reinvest alongside us in the group, and employee ownership schemes reward the teams who stay.
- 3
Grow
Plug into the Certera platform: shared services take the admin, AI takes the paperwork, and your team gets back to the work they love.
The strongest compliance group in the UK
is being built now.
Be part of it.
05 — Contact
Start the
conversation.
All enquiries are treated in strict confidence.