Bears on opportunity/market-analysis.md’s competitive landscape table (the “Generic QMS/compliance software” row).

What was checked

Qualsys’s pricing page and Ideagen’s homepage (Qualsys’s pricing URL redirected to ideagen.com, indicating Qualsys has been absorbed into Ideagen’s product portfolio), and ComplianceQuest’s pricing page.

Qualsys / Ideagen

https://qualsys.co.uk/pricing/ redirects (302) to https://www.ideagen.com/, confirming Qualsys is now sold as part of Ideagen rather than as a standalone product. Ideagen’s homepage (checked 2026-08-09) states it serves “18,500+ organizations” across food & beverage, healthcare, aviation & aerospace, manufacturing, government, architecture/engineering/construction, and audit/accounting/advisory — automotive trades is not listed among its featured industries. It does carry G2 “Small-Business Leader” badges alongside “Mid-Market” ones for its quality-management products, so it isn’t purely an enterprise-only seller, but nothing on the homepage ties that small-business segment to New Zealand or to trades specifically. No pricing figures are published; the site routes to demo requests.

ComplianceQuest

ComplianceQuest’s pricing page (checked 2026-08-09) uses fully customized, sales-assisted pricing — no published tiers. The page’s own language (“cross-functional collaboration,” dedicated customer success managers, ERP/CRM integrations, an ROI calculator aimed at demonstrating savings to established organizations) reads as built for mid-to-large customers. Automotive is listed as one of 16 industries the product covers generally, but there’s no small-business or NZ-specific messaging anywhere on the page.

Conclusion

Neither vendor shows evidence of a credible small-operator or NZ-trades foothold. Both are sales-assisted, enterprise-leaning, and industry-generic rather than vertical. This matches the original market-analysis table’s framing (“feature-rich but not vertical, still needs configuration”) — desk research adds sourcing to that claim but doesn’t change it.

What this doesn’t tell us

This was a two-vendor check, not an exhaustive category scan (the original list also named “generic ISO 9001 tools” as a broader category). A live web search across the wider generic-QMS category — which wasn’t possible this session, see the caveat in opportunity/market-analysis.md — would be needed to rule out other players entirely.