About
Built for the week before the audit
Certly started from one recurring description of the job: chasing supplier certificates across messy spreadsheets. That is not a workflow problem anyone brags about, and it is not one enterprise compliance platforms bother with at a mid-market price. Plants running BRC, SQF or FSSC 22000 hold documents for dozens or hundreds of suppliers, and the tracking usually lives with one or two people who also own everything else in quality.
So we scoped narrowly and on purpose. Certly does certificate collection, expiry tracking, chasing and a status view you can export, and it stops there. No clause mapping, no OCR, no ERP connectors in the first release, because each of those would slow down the part that actually saves hours in a week.
We are also careful about what the tool claims. Certly tracks and reminds. It does not verify that a certificate is genuine and it does not guarantee that your plant is compliant, and we say so on the dashboard itself rather than burying it. We are pre-launch, talking to QA managers and building against what they describe. If that is your job, the waitlist is the shortest way to shape it.
The problem
The spreadsheet does not chase anyone
A certified plant has to hold a current allergen declaration, CoA and audit certificate for every supplier it buys from. Most QA teams track that in a spreadsheet and chase the gaps by email, five to ten hours a week of copying dates and rewriting the same reminder. The spreadsheet tells you an expiry passed; it does not tell you in time, and it never sends the email. A missing document found during a re-audit costs real money in fees and remediation, and the risk sits with one or two people who already have a full job. Certly is built to take the tracking and the chasing off that list.
Tell us how you track certificates today
If you keep supplier certificates in a spreadsheet and chase them by email, we want the details: your standard, your supplier count, and the part of the chase that wastes the most time.
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