Preflight

Before you sit down to review a property contract, you need to know two things: are all the prescribed documents actually attached, and does the data line up across them. Curia's contract preflight check for conveyancing answers both in seconds — running an automated pre-review health check the moment a contract lands, with colour-coded priority alerts that tell you whether to start reviewing now or chase missing documents first.

The problem with starting review blind

Plenty of files arrive incomplete. A NSW contract turns up without the planning certificate. A Victorian Section 32 is missing the s151 OC certificate for a strata property. The vendor name on the title search doesn't match the front page. None of that is unusual — but each one means stopping mid-review, emailing the vendor's solicitor, and resuming days later with the context lost.

The cost is twofold. You waste time reviewing a file that was never reviewable. And the things you'd ordinarily catch on a careful read — a title reference that doesn't quite match, a planning certificate that's four months old — are exactly the kind of details that get missed when you're picking the review back up after a break.

How preflight works

Preflight is the gate that runs before the section-by-section walkthrough. It does three things, and shows the result on a single screen.

Cross-checks data across documents

Curia compares the values that should agree across the contract, the title search and the vendor's statement — vendor names, title references, land address. Where they don't match, preflight flags it before you've spent an hour on the file.

Confirms prescribed documents are attached

Curia checks the contract for the documents the jurisdiction requires: front page, choices page, planning certificate, title search, plans, prescribed dealings, sewer diagrams, pool certificates where the property has a pool, tenancy agreements where the property is tenanted. Anything missing is surfaced with a page-level reference so you know exactly what to ask for.

Flags issues with colour-coded priority alerts

Each check returns pass, warning or fail. The screen reads like a conveyancing pre-review checklist — green where everything's in order, amber where something needs attention but doesn't block review, red where a prescribed document is missing or data doesn't reconcile. You triage the file at a glance.

Built for NSW and VIC

Australian property contracts don't share a single shape. NSW preflight checks the standard form contract, the dealings recorded against the title, and the planning certificate per title or per parent lot for unregistered contracts. VIC preflight applies Section 32 disclosure logic — confirming the s199 planning certificate, the s151 OC certificate where an Owners Corporation exists, and reconciling values stated in the s32 body against the source documents attached behind it.

The pattern is consistent across states. The checks reflect the way contracts actually work in each jurisdiction.

Where preflight sits in the review

Preflight runs the moment Curia finishes processing the contract, before you start the section-by-section review . Its job is contract review readiness — Australia-wide, jurisdiction-aware — so the rigorous walkthrough that follows isn't interrupted by surprises.

See preflight handle a real NSW contract in a 15-minute demo. Or read about Smart Prefill — what Curia does once preflight clears the file for review.