Comparison
GO! Site Approved vs Avetta
A US-headquartered supply chain risk platform. Avetta One spans safety, liability, workforce management, sustainability, financial viability and cyber, at company, worker and worksite level — and it owns Pegasus.
Global supply chain risk and worker management platform
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Who each one is for.
Who Avetta was built for
Large enterprises with long supplier chains. A contracting company joins the network once and is visible to every client on it — Avetta reports over 150,000 suppliers and four million workers.
Where the two genuinely overlap
Both verify contracting company workers before they reach site. For Avetta that is one layer of a global risk platform. For us it is the whole product, with the plant held beside the people.
At a glance
GO! Site Approved and Avetta, side by side
| GO! Site Approved | Avetta | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned in | PIAGO — Australia (Brisbane) | Avetta — United States (Utah) |
| Sold to | The mine or quarry operator | Large enterprises managing a supplier base |
| Company prequalification | Yes | Yes |
| Worker competency and tickets | Yes | Yes |
| Plant and equipment complianceUs | Yes | Not stated |
| Site access | Yes | Yes |
| Designed for Australian mining complianceUs | Yes | Not stated |
| Matched product for the other side of the gateUs | Yes | Not stated |
A tick means the vendor publicly offers it. A dash means they do not put it forward — not that it cannot be done. Ownership and product scope checked August 2026.
The honest split
Choose GO! Site Approved if
- You run plant on site and need it verified alongside the operator.
- You are under Australian resources legislation rather than a global standard.
- You would rather your compliance data stayed with an Australian company.
- The contracting companies that take up GO! Site Ready turn up with their end already in order — less paperwork for you to chase, and fewer gaps found at the gate.
- You would rather deal with Carl, who owns and built it, than an account manager.
Choose Avetta if
- You are qualifying thousands of suppliers across several countries.
- You have no plant or equipment to keep compliant.
The commercial model
Who pays for your contracting companies to be on it.
How Avetta describes its model
Avetta publishes supplier membership plans: a contracting company joins the network, pays to be on it, and is then visible to the clients who use it. The company describes this as the point of the model — one profile, many clients — and it is how the platform is sold on their own supplier pages.
How GO! Site Approved works
GO! Site Approved is a single operator licence. Your contracting companies are not charged to be on it, so the cost of your compliance programme does not land on your supply chain and does not reappear as a line in their next rate review. That matters most alongside the thing it is actually built for: approvals that sit with the site senior executive who carries the obligation, compliance status wired through to the gate on WinDsx and Gallagher, and fatigue rules read at the point of entry rather than reconciled afterwards.
Worth asking either way, of us or of anybody else: who pays per contracting company, and what happens to that number at your next renewal or migration.
The verdict
For an Australian mining operation, GO! Site Approved is the better fit — and your data stays in Australia.
Avetta is the largest platform on this list and it is genuinely strong at qualifying an enormous global supplier base against one standard. That scale is also the trade. You do not need a hundred and fifty thousand suppliers managed — you need to prove that four named people and two named machines met a critical control on a Tuesday, under legislation Avetta does not market to.
This comparison describes what each product is built for, drawn from how Avetta describes itself publicly. We do not run their software and make no claims about what it cannot do. If you work at Avetta and think this is unfair, tell us and we will fix it.
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Bring the other quotes. Carl will tell you where we lose — it is quicker than finding out in month three.