Knowing where every home stands
Stedwise is a website you use yourself, with no consultant needed. It is for supported exempt accommodation providers and the managing agents who work with them. It shows whether each licence you will need is ready. It shows which organisation must provide each piece of evidence. Then it helps you keep that evidence and your written procedures up to date as the rules change.
Why it exists
Licensing is expected in 2027 or 2028. The government has confirmed that Housing Benefit will be tied to the licence. Once licensing starts, a home without a licence should expect to lose its Housing Benefit.
Birmingham City Council already runs a quality standard, but only 15% of providers hold its award (the council’s list of award holders (opens in a new tab)). The National Supported Housing Standards also expect documents that many providers have never had to keep: needs assessments, support plans, a training record for staff (a training matrix) and a statement of purpose. Stedwise starts with a free, honest readiness check. Then it turns every gap into a task with a named person.
What Stedwise will not do
- Give consulting or make site visits. You use Stedwise yourself.
- Promise an outcome. Before we could offer a guarantee, we would need real results that compare our predictions with the awards given.
- Run your housing for you. It does not manage rent, rooms or tenancies.
- Decide a licence or an award. Councils and assessors decide. We help you prepare for them.
Nine rules we follow
The score is where you start. Evidence keeps it honest.
We show your readiness result and your to-do list first. Policies are easy to copy. What matters is evidence that you keep up to date.
Rules are kept as content, not built into the software.
Requirements, their weights and the evidence they need are kept in files with version numbers. When a regulation changes, we update the content and record it in the changelog.
Honest scores.
We never raise a score to sell a plan. If residents have a poor experience, a provider needs better practice, not better paperwork.
Resident data stays in our own systems.
Only organisation documents and public government text go to any AI model. We check resident records by their structure, never by what they say.
Plain English, and a first result in ten to fifteen minutes.
The people who use Stedwise run services. They are not compliance experts, and they should not need to be.
If we are not sure, a person checks.
When the evidence checker is not sure, it says so and a person reviews it. It does not guess a score.
Documents we write for you are starting points.
Every document is marked for you to review and adopt. We never claim that a document guarantees you meet the rules.
Show who does what.
For every rule we record who is responsible, who does the work and who keeps the evidence. Stedwise never decides who holds a licence, and never interprets a contract.
Say how sure we are.
Every rule says whether it is law now, something the government has decided, a proposal, or our best guess. Our best guess never counts as law.