AuditReady.care vs Lifted Talent — compliance-only vs hire-to-retain
AuditReady.care and Lifted Talent are both UK care-sector platforms with sponsor-licence compliance at their centre, but the scope is very different. Lifted is a six-stage hire-to-retain platform — AI-powered recruitment, candidate screening, automated onboarding, compliance with regulated advisers in-house. AuditReady.care is a focused compliance tracker: it starts once a worker is hired. The right pick depends on whether recruitment is your bottleneck, or whether the live risk is the daily evidence trail on workers you already have.
Side-by-side
17 points of comparison| AuditReady.care | Lifted Talent | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Sponsor-licence compliance tracker | Find · Screen · Match · Onboard · Comply · Retain |
| Pricing | Published, £36–£150 per site / month | "Predictable flat pricing", figures not published |
| Pricing dimension | Per site (not per worker) | Not public; secondary sources suggest per-sponsored-worker component |
| Care-sector only | Yes | Yes |
| AI-powered recruitment / screening | No | AI voice agent + value-based screening |
| Automated onboarding (DBS, refs, contracts) | Structured 5-step workflow, not automated | Fully compliant in <10 days |
| Regulated advisers in-house | No | Ex-Home Office inspectors |
| Sponsored worker records (one per worker) | RTW, DBS/PVG, visa, training, references | Yes |
| SMS reportable-event detection (10 / 20 WD calc) | Yes | Compliance monitoring, specifics not published |
| Certificate of Sponsorship tracking | Tracks + deadline alerts | CoS, renewals handled in-platform |
| Right-to-work audit trail with dated capture | Yes | Yes |
| Worker self-service portal | Document view & upload, policy ack | Carer-facing Lifted app for job seekers; sponsored-worker portal not on homepage |
| One-click per-worker audit pack (PDF) | Yes | Not visible on homepage |
| Multi-site head-office view | Yes | Multi-site customers (Home Instead, Bluebird Care) but not a specific feature callout |
| Legislation watch | Weekly scan of gov.uk + CI guidance | Partial |
| Mandatory 2FA | Yes | Available |
| UK/EU hosted | Supabase, London | Yes |
Comparison compiled from each product’s public website at the time of writing. If any point above is wrong on either side, we will correct it — tell us.
Which should you pick
Pick AuditReady.care if
Recruitment isn't your bottleneck — you have the workers, you need the daily evidence trail to stay defensible. Or you want transparent per-site pricing that doesn't scale with headcount. Or you already use another recruiter and want a focused compliance tracker beside it. Or your most recent inspection flagged evidence gaps on workers already on the books.
Pick Lifted Talent if
Hiring is your live problem — you need pipeline, screening, DBS/references and compliant onboarding in under 10 days. Or you want regulated advisers and ex-Home Office inspectors inside the platform rather than through an external solicitor. Or you want the full six-stage journey from job post to retention in one tool and are willing to pay the quote.
Run both if
You want Lifted Talent as the engine that fills your rota (Find · Screen · Onboard) and AuditReady.care as the lightweight day-to-day evidence tracker your home managers and compliance lead run from. Different jobs. AuditReady.care's per-site pricing means a focused add-on doesn't scale with headcount, so it sits comfortably alongside Lifted.
Pricing honesty
Lifted Talent’s homepage says “predictable, flat pricing” and “sponsorship at a much lower cost than the traditional route”, but does not publish figures. Regional recruitment hub documents cite a per-sponsored-worker component and a tiered compliance plan — but those secondary sources may be out of date, so take the actual number from a Lifted scoping call.
AuditReady.care is £36–£150 per site per month, published on the pricing page, every band includes the full product. One-off setup is £234 per site. No per-user cost. Monthly billing, no minimum term, full data export at any time.
The one structural pricing difference worth asking in any demo: does the price scale as you hire? AuditReady.care’s per-site band only moves when a site crosses from 15 to 16, 30 to 31, 50 to 51 sponsored workers — so hiring six people inside one site does not increase cost. Confirm the equivalent on any per-person-structured plan.
Why this comparison is honest
Lifted and AuditReady.care don’t do the same thing. Lifted covers the full hire-to-retain lifecycle for a care-sector workforce including recruitment and regulated advice. AuditReady.care deliberately only does the compliance middle — the day-to-day worker record, the deadline tracker, the audit pack — with published per-site pricing and a care-sector-only focus. If your pain is hiring, Lifted is older, bigger and does the job well. If your pain is the daily evidence trail on workers you already have, AuditReady.care is built around it.
Frequently asked
- Is AuditReady.care an alternative to Lifted Talent?
- They overlap on sponsor-licence compliance but have very different scope. Lifted Talent is a six-stage platform (Find, Screen, Match, Onboard, Comply, Retain) — it does AI-powered recruitment, candidate screening with DBS/references/gap checks, automated onboarding, and ongoing compliance with regulated advisers in-house. AuditReady.care is a compliance tracker only — no recruitment, no screening, no regulated immigration advice. If you want end-to-end hire-to-retain, pick Lifted. If you want a focused day-to-day compliance tracker that sits beside however you already recruit, pick AuditReady.care.
- Does AuditReady.care recruit candidates or screen applicants?
- No. AuditReady.care has no recruitment, candidate sourcing, screening, DBS pre-check or reference-check module. Lifted Talent does — including an AI voice agent that calls applicants and runs value-based screening. If recruitment is your bottleneck, Lifted is the right tool. AuditReady.care takes over once a worker is hired and your sponsor licence is live.
- Does AuditReady.care provide regulated immigration advice?
- No. Lifted Talent has regulated advisers and ex-Home Office inspectors in-house. AuditReady.care is software — the record-keeping, deadline tracking and audit evidence side. We deliberately stay out of regulated advice. Many AuditReady.care customers already have an immigration solicitor on retainer; the platform sits alongside that advice as the day-to-day evidence layer.
- How does the pricing compare?
- Lifted Talent's homepage advertises predictable, flat pricing but does not publish figures — expect a 30-minute call to get a quote. AuditReady.care is £36 per site per month at the smallest band and £150 per site per month at the largest (1–100 sponsored workers), published on the pricing page, every band includes the full product, with a one-off £234 setup per site. One critical difference: AuditReady.care prices per site, not per sponsored worker — so cost does not scale as you hire. Compare carefully if headcount is growing.