ARGUS digitizes your annual fire alarm, sprinkler, extinguisher, and emergency lighting inspections. Free for licensed contractors. Reports auto-attach to the building's Fire Safety Plan — owners and fire prevention officers see them instantly.
Most fire-protection contractors still file ITM reports the same way they did in 2005 — print, sign, scan, attach to email, hope someone files it. Four problems show up every year:
Owners lose your reports between annuals. You re-send. They lose them again. Three years later there's no record you ever did the work.
When fire prevention shows up to verify compliance, you're digging through your sent folder from 2019. Owners blame you. You blame the email server.
Half your time is reminding owners their annual is overdue. They don't appreciate the call. You don't enjoy making it.
Your inspection passes. Nothing in the city's records reflects it. The dept's compliance dashboard says the building is overdue — even though you were just there last week.
No software to install. No training. Sign up free, get linked to the buildings you already service, and file your first report in under five minutes.
The owner invites you by email — or you search the building by address and request access. One click on either side and you're connected.
Pick a building, pick the system (alarm / sprinkler / extinguisher / lighting), enter the inspection date and outcome, list any deficiencies, attach your PDF if you have one. Done in under two minutes.
Owner sees the report instantly in their portal. Fire Prevention Officer sees a live compliance trail in theirs. The report attaches to the building's Fire Safety Plan Part 12 automatically — no extra step.
Not desktop software with a five-day onboarding. A web portal that opens on your phone in the riser room.
No subscription. No per-filing fee. No per-building fee. We don't charge contractors. The platform is funded by building owners and fire departments.
File from your phone in the riser room. Photos and notes upload while you're still on site. No "submit when you get back to the office."
Every report you've ever filed — by building, by date, by system. Two clicks. When the city asks, you can prove it in seconds.
Your report becomes Part 12 of the building's Fire Safety Plan automatically. The owner doesn't have to forward it. The FPO doesn't have to chase it.
Charging contractors blocks adoption. If contractors don't sign up, the dept's compliance trail stays empty and the platform doesn't work. So contractors don't pay. Building owners and fire departments fund ARGUS. You file, you keep your data, you stay free.
V1 covers the four systems that account for ~95% of ITM filings in BC commercial buildings. More coming.
Annual full inspection plus monthly visual checks. File pass / pass-with-deficiencies / fail outcomes against any zone or device.
Annual integrity, quarterly waterflow, weekly gauge readings. Riser room photos auto-attach to the report.
Monthly visual + annual licensed inspection. File extinguisher counts, hydrostatic test dates, replacement schedules.
Monthly visual + annual full-load test. Track battery replacement schedules and luminance readings building-wide.
ARGUS is rolling out across BC. Building owners and fire departments will see contractor directories in their portals as we launch them. The first 50 licensed contractors to sign up get included automatically.
Sign up free in two minutes. The contractor portal works in any browser, on any phone, anywhere you have signal.