Bears directly on the claim in domain/nzta-model-qms-requirements.md: “there is currently no dedicated software solution for these requirements in the NZ market.” Also bears on opportunity/market-analysis.md’s “NZ-specific trade compliance tools” table row.

Update, 2026-08-10: the claim does not hold. Two live products found.

The first pass on 2026-08-09 (below, kept for the record) could not run a real web search — WebSearch was down all session and every search engine refused direct fetches. That block cleared on 2026-08-10 using Claude in Chrome to drive a real browser. A plain Google search for NZTA QMS app software "inspecting organisation" OR "vehicle inspector" digital records surfaced two live, NZ-specific, NZTA-approved software products in this exact space on the first page of results. This is the most important correction in the whole research effort — the claim should not be repeated as-is.

WoFMate (wofmate.co.nz)

Live and in production, checked 2026-08-10. Its electronic WoF check sheet (eWOF) is NZTA-approved under NZTA’s Digital Checksheet Provider framework — “a temporary approval of Version 1.13/2026, valid until 31 December 2027” (https://www.wofmate.co.nz/compliance). Built by Mike, an automotive service manager who ran WOF inspection operations, managed inspector teams, and has personally sat through NZTA audits — a husband-and-wife team (his wife Amy helps build it), explicitly positioned as “built from the service desk, not a boardroom” (https://www.wofmate.co.nz/about).

Its pricing page (https://www.wofmate.co.nz/pricing, checked 2026-08-10) lists three tiers, priced per site, not per inspector, all NZD + GST, all with a 30-day free trial:

• Starter, $59/month: guided digital WOF inspections, NZTA-format checksheet PDFs, automatic record locking, linked 28-day rechecks, fail-pattern analytics, NZTA auditor access.
• Professional, $129/month: adds a “QMS Compliance Centre” — explicitly listed as “all QMS registers — equipment & calibration, training, task delegation, amendments, complaints, COI, document control, WOF label custody” — plus an “improvement-record hub linking findings to corrective actions.”
• Complete, $169/month: adds automated staff-acknowledgement workflows that write to training records automatically, your own branding on checksheets, and (in development) VIRM amendment alerts and inspector quizzing linked to training records.

Mapped against the 14-item Master Records List in domain/nzta-model-qms-requirements.md, the Professional tier alone covers complaints, controlled documents (document control), delegation (task delegation), equipment, improvement, training, and duplicate labels (WOF label custody) — seven of fourteen, by name, in a shipped product. The “improvement-record hub linking findings to corrective actions” is, functionally, the exact Tier 2 differentiator described in product/mvp-feature-map.md (“automated record linking, e.g. complaint → improvement record → training record”) — the gap that document says the earlier Totara prototype fell short on. WoFMate already ships a version of it.

itsallauto.com / eWOF™

Also live, also NZTA-approved, checked 2026-08-10. Distinct product, built by the operators of Grimmer Motors in Hamilton, “designed and developed for New Zealand garages in conjunction with… other Waikato-based garages.” Live since May 2024 — materially longer in market than WoFMate. Pricing model is different: no monthly fee to the workshop, a $1-per-WOF charge passed to the customer, pitched as “cost-neutral.” Named customer testimonials on the homepage: Phill Attwood (A&H Motors 2015 Limited, “339 WOF Inspections later”), Matt Tretheway (Tramway Motors, Invercargill). This one is narrower in scope than WoFMate — it’s built around digitising the checksheet itself (rego/VIN photo lookup, rechecks, cloud storage, editable pass/fail templates) plus free WOF-inspector training (theory quizzes, NZTA-style mock exams) — it does not advertise the broader QMS-register coverage (complaints, delegation, equipment calibration) that WoFMate’s Professional/Complete tiers do.

Worth flagging separately: itsallauto.com’s own site (https://itsallauto.com/ewof-privacy-and-security/, checked 2026-08-10) states that the Motor Trade Association recently “sent out a message raising concerns about a digital WOF provider who may be forwarding completed checksheets to a third-party business without the customer’s consent” and explicitly clarifies “itsallauto.com is not the provider in question.” Which provider MTA was referring to is not named in what’s public, and this pass found no independent confirmation of the MTA message itself — but it’s a real data point that MTA does actively monitor and comment on digital-checksheet vendors to its members, even though (per research/mta-member-tooling.md) it doesn’t offer a competing product of its own. That’s a channel/reputation dynamic worth knowing before approaching MTA as a partner.

What this means for the claim

domain/nzta-model-qms-requirements.md states: “Josh confirms: there is currently no dedicated software solution for these requirements in the NZ market.” That’s not accurate as written. At minimum two dedicated, NZ-specific, NZTA-approved software products exist and are live today, and one of them (WoFMate) explicitly markets coverage of most of the Master Records List, not just the inspection checksheet. This document doesn’t edit that domain file — it’s marked status: validated and outside this research’s scope to change — but the claim should be revisited by whoever owns that document, because desk research now directly contradicts it rather than just failing to confirm it.

Neither product has been used hands-on, and neither has a visible customer count large enough to call “market-validated” — WoFMate’s homepage gives no customer count at all (consistent with a young product); itsallauto.com claims “hundreds of mechanics” since May 2024 with two named references. Real traction, but not evidence either has saturated the market — there is almost certainly still room, but the “no dedicated software” framing needs to change to something like “two live NZ-specific competitors exist, one of which already covers much of our planned scope, and neither appears to have broad market saturation yet.”

Original pass, 2026-08-09 (kept for the record — superseded above)

What was checked

Waka Kotahi’s own QMS resource page (the primary source the claim itself should be checked against), plus direct fetches of two named/guessed NZ compliance-software candidates (SiteWise, ComplyWith).

Confirming evidence found at the time: the regulator’s own distribution page

Waka Kotahi distributes the QMS master records directly from https://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt.nz/prs-qms/qms (checked 2026-08-09). What’s actually there: Excel spreadsheets for performance assessments, and 13 downloadable PDF templates. No third-party software provider is named or linked anywhere on that page. This is still true and still worth knowing — the regulator doesn’t point IOs toward any product — but it turns out IOs are finding these products anyway, by ordinary web search, which the regulator’s own page doesn’t surface.

Candidates checked and ruled out or unresolved at the time

• SiteWise: confirmed construction-industry prequalification software, not relevant. Ruled out.
• ComplyWith: site returned a 401 error, unresolved.

Why this pass missed WoFMate and itsallauto.com

Both were findable on the first page of a plain Google search using regulator terminology (“inspecting organisation,” “vehicle inspector,” “QMS”). The 2026-08-09 pass couldn’t run that search at all — WebSearch was down and every search engine blocked direct WebFetch access via robots.txt — so it could only check specific named or guessed vendor URLs, and neither WoFMate nor itsallauto.com had been named anywhere in the existing docs or occurred to me as a guess. That’s the concrete cost of not having working search: two real, live, directly-relevant competitors were missed entirely on the first pass, not because they were obscure, but because the first pass had no way to search broadly at all.