EstateProof, Every or iAM Compliant? A comparison you can take to your board.

Every opens with a headline number and then discounts it. iAM Compliant advertises a rate per day and asks for your school name before quoting. EstateProof publishes one price and holds it. Everything below is the like-for-like view: quoted figures, ex VAT, verified July 2026, corrections welcome.

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Who holds your data? Start there.

This is the difference that outlasts every feature list. Every and iAM Compliant are hosted platforms: your work orders, certificates, photos and compliance evidence live in their database, and when you leave, you export what you can and rebuild. EstateProof runs inside your own Microsoft 365. Every job, photo and certificate lives in your SharePoint, under your governance, with staff signing in through the Microsoft accounts they already have. Give notice and you lose the app, not the data. It was never ours to hold.

EstateProofEveryiAM Compliant
Where your data livesYour own Microsoft 365 tenant, in your SharePointTheir platformTheir platform
What happens when you leaveData stays put. Nothing to export or migrateExport on exitExport on exit
Data controller and processorYou remain sole controller; no third-party processor for statutory recordsVendor processes your dataVendor processes your data
Sign-inExisting Microsoft accounts, existing MFASeparate accountsSeparate accounts
Extra infrastructureNone. Runs on the Microsoft 365 you already pay forNoneNone

Price, with the games taken out

EstateProof is one price per site per year, published, ex VAT: Silver from £650, Gold from £1,150 and Platinum from £1,650, stepping down as the estate grows. Every's pricing starts from a G-Cloud list price of £1,526 per licence per year and is then discounted deal by deal. iAM Advanced is advertised "from £3 per day" per school; when we asked for the personalised price, the quote came back at £1,460 per school per year, flat. That is £4 a day, a third above the advertised rate before you've started. The cleanest comparison is real numbers.

EstateEstateProof GoldEvery, 4-module bundleiAM Advanced, quoted July 2026
1 school£1,595a year£1,526list price, one module£1,460a year
5-school MAT£6,975£1,395 a schoolabout £9,500from quotes on file£7,300£1,460 a school
9-school federation£12,555£1,395 a school£19,140from quotes on file£13,140£1,460 a school
20-school trust£23,000£1,150 a schoolabout £45,650from quotes on file£29,200£1,460 a school
Difference at 20 schools£23,000Gold, the baseline£22,650 a year more£6,200 a year more

For a single school iAM's quoted rate is £135 a year under Gold. Every EstateProof figure includes AI triage, inspections that raise jobs automatically, unlimited users and your data held in your own tenant, none of which appear in the other columns at any price. From four schools up, Gold costs less per school as well: £65 a school less at five schools and £310 a school less at twenty. Against Every it isn't close at any size. Put your own estate size into the calculator.

Features, side by side

Every is a suite of separately priced modules (Business Management, Asset, Policy, Condition and others), hosted on their platform and sold per school on 36 or 60-month auto-renewing contracts. iAM Compliant is a hosted compliance and training platform sold per school in two packages, Essentials and Advanced, with training and sustainability modules priced on top and prices personalised per school. EstateProof is one product in three cumulative packages, Silver, Gold and Platinum, running inside your own Microsoft 365 with no new licences, nothing to install and unlimited users on everything.

All three include work orders, a PPM schedule, sites, assets and contractors, staff fault reporting, a compliance register and a live multi-school dashboard for trust leadership. The table shows where they differ.

CapabilityEstateProof GoldEvery, 4-module bundleiAM Advanced
AI triage: a fault email or photo becomes a drafted work orderIncludedNot offeredNot offered
Digital inspections where failed checks raise jobs automaticallyIncludedSeparate module, not in the bundle quotedPre-built audits; jobs raised manually
Safety layer: plan-pin maps, risk assessments, asbestos sign-offIncludedNot like for likeRisk assessments included; no plan-pin maps
Governors' report as a one-click PDFIncludedReport building variesReports included
Contractor updates without contractor loginsIncluded, by secure linkContractor access variesContractors area requires access
Staff CPD training libraryNot offered. We do estates, not e-learningSeparate productIncluded: 20 courses, 400+ via iAM Academy at £499 a year
Data stays in your own Microsoft tenantYes, your SharePointNo, their platformNo, their platform
Unlimited usersIncludedLicence-basedIncluded

Where iAM Compliant is stronger, the training library, we say so. If staff e-learning is your priority, that column matters. If estates, PPM and compliance evidence are the job, read on.

Governance: the board portal the others don't have

Most trusts pay twice: once for a compliance platform, and again for a governance portal such as Huddle or GovernorHub to run board meetings in. Every connects compliance data into its own suite, and credit where it's due for that, but neither Every nor iAM Compliant offers the board-portal feature set itself: meeting packs, e-signed approvals, external board members. GovernanceProof folds that second subscription into the platform. It comes with Platinum, and your board papers are held in your own tenant rather than a vendor's cloud. See the module.

Governance capabilityEstateProof PlatinumEveryiAM Advanced
Board meeting packs compiled to one PDFIncludedNot offeredNot offered
E-signed approvals, timestamped per versionIncludedStaff read and acceptance tracking onlyNot offered
Policy published to your website on approvalIncludedStaff distribution onlyPolicy tracker; no auto-publish
Attendance, declarations and training records for the boardIncludedStaff-level records, not board recordsStaff-level only
Live estate data on the board dashboardCompliance, PPM and H&S, liveCompliance data within its own suiteNo board portal to show it in
External board members without licences or feesSecure Microsoft guest sign-inLicence-basedNot offered
Board papers held in your own tenantYes, your SharePointNo, IRIS's cloudNo, their platform

GovernanceProof is live and included in Platinum. Comparator claims were checked against Every's and iAM Compliant's public product pages on 29 July 2026. A governance portal such as Huddle or GovernorHub is normally a separate subscription alongside either comparator.

Getting started, and getting out

Every charges an £800 "Implementation Voucher" per school, valid for twelve months, which is then halved to £400 as a goodwill gesture, so a nine-school trust sees £7,200 become £3,600. iAM Compliant doesn't publish setup costs. Ours is one Launch Credit for the whole trust: setup, data import, a live launch session, the recorded training library and the admin guide. It's free with Gold and Platinum, free on Silver with a two-year commitment, and otherwise a flat £450. There's no expiry clock.

EstateProofEveryiAM Compliant
TermAnnual36 or 60 monthsAnnual or multi-year
RenewalNo auto-rolloverAuto-renewingPer agreement
LeavingSixty days' noticeLocked to termPer agreement
Your dataIn your tenant; exportable any timeOn their platform; export on exitOn their platform; export on exit
Price certaintyPublished, heldQuoted, discounted, per dealAdvertised from-rate; quoted per school

Why the notice period is sixty days

We'd rather keep a trust because the product earns its place than because the contract won't let them go, or because their data is on our servers and leaving means a migration project. That is why your data lives in your tenant and the notice period is sixty days.

Where the others are the right answer

Every is an established supplier with a broad module catalogue. If your trust wants a single vendor for HR-adjacent policy management alongside estates, or you're already invested in their ecosystem, the switching cost may not be worth it.

iAM Compliant has a good staff training offer, with bite-sized IOSH-approved courses. If e-learning is the main thing you're buying, they do it well.

Our case is narrower. If what you need is faults, PPM, inspections, contractors and compliance evidence, run properly inside the Microsoft 365 you already own, at a price you can read out in a governors' meeting, that is the job EstateProof was built for.

Every's figures are taken from quotes supplied to schools we work with and their published G-Cloud listing (£1,526 per licence per year). iAM Compliant's figure is a personalised quote obtained directly from iAM Compliant in July 2026: iAM Advanced at £1,460 per school per year, advertised "from £3 per day"; Essentials references are their advertised from-rate of £1 per day. All figures current as of July 2026, ex VAT. Module names and bundle contents are as described in the quotes on file. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.

See the figures on your own estate

Put your site count into the calculator for a written price on the published rates, or book thirty minutes and see it running in a Microsoft 365 like yours.