What you get
Three business days from your completed intake: the scope check, your AUSTRAC enrolment prepared for you to lodge, and the seven documents that make up a program.
The scope check, then your enrolment
A structured check of the services your firm actually provides against AUSTRAC's published designated-services list, so you know where you likely stand. Scope is settled by that list and by your own lawyer — never by us: a written determination from Mantios would be practising law we're not allowed to practise. What we produce is the comparison your lawyer would otherwise build from scratch.
Firms offering advisory, M&A or business-sale work, company or trust set-ups, registered-office or nominee services, trust-account or client-money handling, or real-estate broking generally assume they're in and enrol.
Your AUSTRAC enrolment, prepared for you to lodge
Prepared from your intake answers; you or your authorised officer lodge it, because enrolment is made by the entity itself. It is free, online and about 30 minutes if you do it yourself — we say so every time.
Already enrolled? We check the AML/CTF compliance officer notification is done too — a separate obligation with its own clock (AML/CTF Act 2006 s 26M; for newly regulated firms, AML/CTF Transitional Rules 2026 s 19 make it due the later of 29 July 2026 or 14 days after the firm goes on the Reporting Entities Roll).
Seven documents, built around your firm
Under the reformed Act a reporting entity maintains one documented, risk-based program — the risk assessment plus the policies, procedures and controls that manage the risk it identifies. These seven are that program: the set AUSTRAC's guidance says a program needs, written around your services.
- ML/TF risk assessment — methodology and your firm's completed assessment. Everything else is built on it.
- AML/CTF program and policies — governance, the compliance officer's role, senior-manager approval.
- Customer due diligence (CDD/KYC) — identification and verification, beneficial ownership, politically exposed persons, enhanced-due-diligence triggers.
- Ongoing CDD and transaction monitoring — keeping customer information current and watching activity over the relationship.
- Suspicious matter and reporting — suspicious matter reports, threshold transaction reports, the tipping-off offence.
- Employee due diligence, training and register — screening and training the people who deliver designated services, with the registers as evidence.
- Evaluation schedule and adoption minute — the independent-evaluation timetable, plus the minute recording adoption.
A human reads every page before it reaches you. Every document states on its face that it is prepared for your review and adoption and recommends independent legal review.
What actually happens
- Short intake, about three minutes. We run the scope check and reply on your preferred contact within one business day with scope and price. If we don't think you need us, we'll say so.
- Longer intake, about fifteen minutes. Services, clients, trust money, staff, existing controls. Work begins on your completed answers, not on cleared payment.
- Three business days later: the pack and the invoice together. Enrolment prepared for lodgement, all seven documents, human-reviewed. Due within 7 days by bank transfer.
The year-one guarantee
If AUSTRAC queries a program we built, within the first year of delivery, we draft the response at no charge — on either price option. You review it, adopt it and submit it; that part is always yours, because you are the reporting entity and we are not.
It is a service commitment, not an outcome — nobody can promise you how a regulator will treat your firm. On the $200/month arm the program is also kept current as AUSTRAC's guidance or your services change; on $800 one-time you maintain it yourself and the guarantee still applies. Both options are on Pricing.
Start with the scope check.
Six questions, about three minutes. We reply on your preferred contact within one business day.