How we verify listings

This badge means the company has been checked against the following criteria by the AI Registry editor.

• Active ABN registered in Australia, looked up against the Australian Business Register.
• Australian-registered business address confirmed against ABR records.
• At least one founder or director resident in Australia, verified via ASIC director records or equivalent public evidence.
• Public website with Australian contact details.
• Either an AU-registered domain (.com.au) or a clearly stated Australian business identity.

This is not a government or industry certification. It is a desk check by the editor against publicly available records. We do not audit company finances, governance, or product claims.

This badge means the company has provided a written attestation that its customer data is stored on Australian-based servers.

• Named hosting provider (e.g. AWS, Azure, dedicated AU provider).
• Named region (e.g. ap-southeast-2 for AWS Sydney).
• Optional link to a public security or compliance statement.

The Data Sovereign badge reflects what the company has told us, supported by what is publicly verifiable. It is not a security audit or compliance certification. Buyers running formal procurement should still verify directly with the vendor.

This badge means an authorised representative of the company has claimed control of the listing through the claim form.

• The claimant has identified themselves with name, role, and a work email matching the company's domain.
• The editor has confirmed the claimant's authority via a brief email exchange before granting the badge.
• Future edits to the listing flow through the claimant rather than the editor's research.

Claimed is a different signal to Verified. Verified means the company exists in Australia per public records. Claimed means a known person at the company controls the listing. A listing can be Verified without being Claimed, and vice versa.

Reporting an issue

If you believe a listing is misleading, has incorrect information, or claims a status it cannot back up, contact the editor at editor@airegistry.com.au and we'll investigate. We remove listings that fail re-verification.

What the badges are not

• Not an endorsement of the company's product quality.
• Not a recommendation to buy from them.
• Not a substitute for your own due diligence in a procurement process.
• Not a security or compliance certification.

The badges exist to filter out the obvious noise: companies that aren't actually Australian, vendors that store data offshore by default, and listings that were never verified. The rest is your call.

What gets listed

Verification checks that a company is Australian. It does not decide whether the company belongs on an AI register. That is a separate test, and this is it: AI has to be material to what the company sells, through one of four doors.

1. Builds AI. The company trains, fine-tunes or engineers machine learning, computer vision, speech, language or generative models, and that is the thing it sells.
2. Applies AI as a named capability. AI is a specific, described part of the product that a buyer could evaluate and that the company had to build or license. A named feature, not an adjective in the headline.
3. Advises on AI. AI strategy, adoption or governance is a named service line with its own deliverables and entry points, not AI mentioned inside a general consulting engagement.
4. Builds the layer AI depends on. Data, tooling or context infrastructure that AI systems or AI-assisted teams run on.

Every listing says which door it came through, in plain terms, in its description. If you cannot tell what the AI actually does from reading the listing, the listing is not finished.

We do not list AI used as a descriptor with nothing behind it, companies reselling someone else's AI with nothing of their own on top, AI that is on the roadmap rather than in the product, or a single AI feature bolted to an otherwise unrelated business.

The capability tag on a listing is set by the editor against the definitions on each category page, not by the company that submitted it.