Compare how you track certificates

Almost nobody choosing Sealinn is choosing between two pieces of software. They are deciding whether to keep doing it the way they already do it. So these pages compare Sealinn to the alternatives that actually exist in a small contractor’s office.

You won’t find another vendor named on any of them. Comparing ourselves to a competitor’s feature list means quoting numbers we can’t verify and prices that go stale the day they change them — and it wouldn’t answer the question you have anyway. If you want the underlying detail instead, the guides cover what to require and how to check it.

The alternatives

• A folder and a calendar, or something that reads the certificateMost contractors start here, and for a while it is genuinely enough. This is what stops being true as the list grows.
• Outsourcing certificate tracking, or doing it yourselfHanding the chasing to someone else buys back the hours and gives up the room to decide. Here is where that trade actually lands.
• Tracking subcontractor COIs: spreadsheet vs. SealinnA spreadsheet is free and familiar. Here is where it holds up — and where it quietly lets a lapsed certificate through.
• Your broker keeping an eye on it, or holding the record yourselfA good agent is worth keeping, and this is not an argument against one. It is about which parts of this job their position lets them do.

Each one names the point where the alternative is genuinely the better answer, not just the point where ours is. If a spreadsheet covers you, that page says so.