Checkfirst is a London-headquartered startup founded in 2021 by Benjamin Lambert alongside co-founders Oyvind Henriksen and Rami Elsawy, building software for the testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) industry. The company has raised pre-seed funding from Olisipo Way and Hiero VC to apply AI to an industry still run largely on paper checklists and spreadsheets.
The platform splits into three connected products: ScheduleAI matches auditors to jobs based on skills, certifications, location, and availability; InspectAI standardizes on-site data collection with digital checklists and photo verification that confirms whether a required element appears in an image; and VerifyAI extracts and cross-checks data from inspection documents. Case studies on the company site describe cutting month-long scheduling cycles down to minutes for some customers.
Checkfirst targets inspection, audit, and certification bodies rather than individual users, automotive inspection firms, property surveyors, and compliance auditors are named use cases. Pricing is not published; the company runs prospects through a demo and a pilot before quoting a contract, standard practice for enterprise TIC software.
