§ 01 About
Compliance proof: scanned, signed, defensible.
Hovermarks is scan-first compliance software for the assets you maintain. UK statutory report formats for LOLER, PUWER and PSSR, configurable checklists for fire, lifting, electrical and workplace safety including OSHA, NFPA and ANSI, and branded PDF reports with the inspector's sign-off signature. Built by BrainBoxIT Ltd in Portsmouth, UK, since 2018.
Where we came from
Hovermarks started life as TagIt, built around one idea: that a QR code stuck on an asset, plus a checklist that loaded automatically when you scanned it, was enough to replace a clipboard. The scope grew beyond tagging: work orders, costing, branded PDF reports with the inspector's sign-off, auditor packs that bundle a period into one PDF, Azure OpenAI-assisted asset description suggestions, and natural-language search.
The name “TagIt” described the first thing we did. It stopped describing the product some time ago. The full story is on the blog: From TagIt to Hovermarks.
Why “Hovermarks”
A mark is the proof: the signed-off report, the QR code on the asset, the green tick in the dashboard. The thing you point at when an auditor asks. Hover is how you reach it. Fast, weightless, from anywhere. It's also a quiet nod to how modern multi-site operations actually work: not tied to a desk, not tied to a clipboard.
Hovermarks is the rebrand of an existing, live product. Nothing about the data, the contracts, or the team changed. Logins, URLs, and APIs continue to work. What's new is the ambition to be the default way regulated, multi-site teams prove compliance.
One name, one company, one product: Hovermarks is the asset-inspection compliance platform operated by BrainBoxIT Limited (UK company number 11703272), online at hovermarks.co.uk and hovermarks.com. We are independent and not affiliated with any other software company whose name contains “hover” or “marks”. If you found a different product while searching for us, the QR-tagged inspection app lives here.
Our mission
Make defensible compliance the easy path for facilities managers, fire-protection contractors, lifting-equipment examiners, manufacturers, and the regulators and insurers they answer to.
What we build
Hovermarks is a single product: Inspection. One scan-first model, one audit trail, one source of truth across every regulated workflow.
- LOLER & lifting equipment. Six-monthly thorough exams, defects classified the way Schedule 1 words it (an existing or imminent danger, or one that could become a danger) with remedy-by dates, examiner credentials captured per record, and on Professional, work orders from failed inspections through automation rules.
- Fire safety. BS 5306 fire-extinguisher, BS 5839 alarm, fire door and FRA templates, a dated record of every inspection against each device, and evidence packs you can share with insurers and auditors.
- Facilities & manufacturing. Per-asset service history, conditional checklists, multi-site rollups, auditor packs, append-only audit log.
- OSHA / NFPA / ANSI (US). 1910.179 crane, B30 rigging, 1910.178 forklift, NFPA 25 sprinkler: same app, region-aware templates.
The company behind Hovermarks
Hovermarks is built and operated by BrainBoxIT Limited, a UK information-technology consultancy registered in England and Wales (company number 11703272) with its registered office at 6 Range Green, Portsmouth, PO2 8RE. BrainBoxIT has been incorporated since 2018, and Hovermarks is its principal product. When you sign a contract, invoice, or DPA, you sign it with BrainBoxIT Limited trading as Hovermarks.
Get in touch
Contact us for sales, support, press, or partnership inquiries. We respond within one UK business day, usually faster.
Customer support email: hello@hovermarks.co.uk
§ 02 Principles
Built around the inspector
Every feature gets stress-tested against “does it make a Tuesday-afternoon inspection faster?” If the answer is no, it doesn't ship.
Audit-defensible by default
Changes to assets, inspections, defects, work orders and checklists are written to a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log. Admins on every plan can export an auditor pack: a period's inspections and their audit-log entries in one PDF, checked for edits when it is generated. Searching the full log in the app is a Professional feature.
Multi-tenant from line zero
Hard isolation is the architecture, not a security policy you write later. One customer's data is never visible to another. Enforced on every database query.
Ship when ready, not when scheduled
No keynote-driven roadmaps. AI gets shipped when there's a real governed product behind it. Compliance customers prefer boring and predictable.
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