How it works

Catchwind does one thing: it reads the public record so you don’t have to, and tells you when it says something about a client of yours.

What happens every day

44 millionrecords read last week.

81,250of them new.

140clients at a practice like yours.
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4client events.

1We read 71 public registers and sources.Some every six hours, most daily, a few weekly. 44 million records last week.
2We keep what’s new.81,250 events last week: a change, a cancellation, a registration, a win, a notice.
3We match them to your clients.By ABN or ACN wherever the source gives one. Where it gives only a name, we match on the exact registered name, or a business name registered to your client’s ABN, and ask you to confirm.
4We send you your client events.As an alert if you’ve set that kind of event to Look at soon; otherwise in Monday’s digest. Every one is in your account, with the source, the date and a link.

Setting up

Five minutes. Names are enough.

The five set-up steps; pick one to see its screen 1Add your clients.Upload a spreadsheet, paste a list, or type names. We read five columns: name, ABN, ACN, website and your own reference. Everything else is ignored and never stored. 2We find the ABNs.Every client is looked up on ABN Lookup. Confident matches are ticked; the rest you choose from. Nothing is used until you confirm. 3Set what can’t wait.Three levels: Look at soon, Worth a look, Good to know. Set them for a whole category, for one source, or for one kind of change inside it. Everything starts at Good to know; you decide what moves up. Change it any time in Settings. 4Say how you hear.Monday’s digest to the addresses you choose. Alerts on or off, and who gets them. 5Your first digest lands today.It shows what the registers already hold on each of your clients.

Account set-up, step 1: add your clients

Account set-up, step 2: decide what can’t wait

Account set-up, step 3: where should word go

Step 1 of 5 in your accountStep 2 of 5 in your accountStep 3 of 5 in your accountStep 4 of 5 in your accountStep 5 of 5 in your accountIllustrative

What arrives

An alert

is one client event, by email, sent as soon as we see something you’ve set to Look at soon. Three a day at most.

The Monday digest

is every client event from the week across your whole book, grouped by the level you set, each with the client, the source, the date and a link. In a quiet week it’s one line: nothing changed.

Your account

holds everything, for good. One list, newest first, with unread events pinned. Mark an event read, close it, tag it with what you did. Search by client. Download the lot.

A Catchwind alert email: Sample Joinery Pty Ltd, GST registration cancelled, Look at soon — The alert email

A Catchwind Monday digest, grouped by level — The Monday digest

Client events in the Catchwind account, with level, read and close — Your account

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Open a sample Monday digest

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Catchwind: 7 client events for 6 of your clients, week to 4 Oct 2026

Here is what reached us about clients on your list in the week to 4 Oct 2026.

Look at soon · 2

Sample Joinery Pty LtdGST registration cancelled, effective 22 Sep 2026.Australian Business Register · 22 Sep 2026 · Verified

Sample Logistics Pty LtdCompany status on the ASIC register changed from Registered (REGD) to Strike-off action in progress (SOFF).ASIC company register · 1 Oct 2026 · Verified

Worth a look · 3

Sample Electrical Pty LtdNotice of appointment of restructuring practitioner for a company (s 5.3B.50), Restructuring (Part 5.3B), published 30 September 2026.ASIC Published Notices · 30 Sep 2026 · Verified

Sample Joinery Pty LtdBusiness name ‘Sample Fitouts’ now appears on the ASIC business names register against this ABN: status Registered.ASIC business names register · 29 Sep 2026 · Verified

Sample Builders Pty LtdFinancial category changed from Category 2 to Category 4.QBCC licensed contractors register · 2 Oct 2026 · Verified

Good to know · 2

Sample Civil Pty LtdNamed as supplier on a federal government contract ($412,000); contract notice published on AusTender.AusTender · 28 Sep 2026 · Verified

Sample Landscaping Pty LtdListed as a successful recipient of a Queensland small-business grant.Queensland small-business grants · 1 Oct 2026 · Verified

Nothing new this week for the other 41 clients on your list.

Levels are the ones your practice set. They show your priority for that kind of change, never a view about the business.

What a client event looks like

Every client event: what happened, which client, which source, when, and a link to the record. Verified means the register states it directly. Observed means a regulator or the business itself published it.

GST registration cancelled, effective 22 SeptemberSample Joinery Pty LtdAustralian Business Register · 4 October · SourceLook at soonVerified

1What happened GST registration cancelled, effective 22 September
2Which client Sample Joinery Pty Ltd
3Which source Australian Business Register, graded Verified
4When 4 October
5The level Look at soon, because that’s the level you set

What we don’t do

We don’t contact your clients, for any reason.
We don’t give advice, score a business or judge it. We report what was published.
We don’t read anything private. Every source is a public register or an official publication.
We don’t invent urgency. The level on every client event is the one you set.

Who runs Catchwind

Catchwind is a service of Strategised Pty Ltd, an Australian company. It was built because the public record is where a client’s news appears first, and nobody in a practice has the hours to read it. If it’s useful, accurate and easy, use it. That’s the whole pitch.

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