Australian start-up QuoteCheck officially launched to bring cost transparency and fairness to insurance building repairs
Sydney, December 2025 – Australian start-up QuoteCheck has officially launched today, introducing a first-of-its-kind cost-checking platform for the local insurance and building repair industry. QuoteCheck uses live, regionalised building cost data to help insurers reduce repair spend, speed up claims, and restore trust and transparency to the quoting process.
As building repair costs escalate across Australia, traditional cost validation methods, such as multiple quotes or legacy benchmarks, are struggling to keep pace with ongoing price variation and inflationary pressures. QuoteCheck bridges this gap by offering an independent, real time, data-driven benchmark that supports fair outcomes for all parties and helps insurers reduce claim cost with greater confidence.
“Insurers are increasingly exposed to rapid and uneven cost inflation in building repair. The old ‘two-quote’ approach is often unreliable and lacks the data to demonstrate what’s fair,” QuoteCheck Managing Director Stephen Browne said.
“QuoteCheck fills that gap by providing a live, independent market driven benchmark that allows costs to be validated and adjusted before work starts – delivering savings, reducing disputes and improving transparency across the supply chain.”
QuoteCheck is already delivering proven results with an average 12% cost reduction in building repairs through features such as:
Live national database, regionalised rates: Rates are set by the building community in that region, with each line of a builder’s quote checked against QuoteCheck’s continually updated national library of peer set building rates. This ensures benchmarks reflect real and current market conditions against a builder’s peers driving continual competition.
Fast, practical workflow: No IT implementation required under the SaaS solution, builders, adjusters or claims staff can send a quote to QuoteCheck and receive a replica marked-up quote within 4 hours, ensuring no lifecycle impacts.
Transparent, evidence-based reporting: A traffic-light system flags costs outside your tolerances. QuoteCheck results support data-driven negotiation and better management insight.
Data management: Compare rates by builder, by trade, by region and even by peril to identify where improvements can be made, significantly improving supplier management with detailed cost related information.
Low cost, high capacity: Driven by AI, QuoteCheck can check every quote at a low cost unachievable by humans, with unlimited capacity. The low cost is negligible to overall claims costs, making it a cost-effective solution with a strong return on expenditure.
“QuoteCheck has been developed by insurance industry experienced assessors, builders and insurance repair specialists. It has been market proven with foundation clients for over three years now. That means QuoteCheck results are practical, peer-to-peer and supported by live data, not opinion. Because we don’t take revenue from builders or suppliers, our independence gives insurers the assurance that every quote is reviewed objectively and transparently,” Browne said.
QuoteCheck is now available for Australian insurers, brokers and repair networks at quotecheck.com.au.