Octav is a French software publisher specialized in digitizing periodic equipment inspection (VGP) activities. Our platform helps inspection firms, control bureaus and EHS teams structure their field work, make their reports more reliable and bring more professionalism to their client relationships.
We want inspection companies to have a tool as polished as consumer software, without giving up the depth their trade demands.
Periodic equipment inspection is a demanding trade, governed by strict regulations and under growing pressure: more and more equipment families, documentation requirements from large accounts, staff turnover among technicians, an ever-growing number of sites. Yet many inspection companies still work with a patchwork of scattered tools — Excel, Word, local file storage, paper diaries, emails. That fragmentation is expensive.
Octav was designed to offer a coherent alternative: a single space for your equipment fleet, field operations, reports, deadlines, the client extranet and invoicing. The goal isn’t only to digitize what already existed — it’s to raise the perceived quality of your service.
This ambition guides every product decision. We turn down cosmetic features that don’t serve the field. We prioritize a robust offline mode, finely customizable reports and a smooth client extranet.
These principles are non-negotiable: they define our relationship with the product, our users and their data. They also explain why our clients stay.
Every product decision starts from how inspectors actually work. If a feature doesn’t make a technician’s day on site easier, it has no place in Octav. That priority is why we built a native offline mode, refined mobile ergonomics and fast data entry.
No lock-in, no opacity. Your lists export to Excel, and your reports and invoices download as PDF. For us it’s an ethical requirement, and for the inspection companies that entrust us with their business-critical records, it’s a mark of trust.
An inspection that isn’t recorded is an inspection that doesn’t exist when an audit comes. Octav structures the history of every piece of equipment, archives every report and makes sure any useful information can be found in a few clicks — even years after the inspection.
No vague quotes, no hidden modules. Every company is assessed individually — fleet size, teams, usage — and offered the best rate: we apply the lowest prices on the market, with no per-user surcharge. You know what you pay and what you get.
Every Octav module was co-built with working inspection companies, field inspectors and office managers. That closeness is our best safeguard against technological drift.
We work in short cycles with real users. Before a feature reaches production, it’s tested in the field, adjusted and validated by inspectors who carry out periodic inspections every day.
Our onboarding support reflects this philosophy. We don’t just hand over an empty account: we help you import your existing database, clean up duplicates and train your teams. The goal is for Octav to be fully operational within a few weeks, with no disruption to your business.
On the infrastructure side, Octav is hosted in Switzerland by Infomaniak, a country recognised by the European Commission as providing adequate data protection. Processing is GDPR-compliant and exchanges with the platform are encrypted over HTTPS.
Octav is published from Arles, in the south of France (Bouches-du-Rhône). We support inspection companies, control bureaus and EHS teams across mainland France and its overseas territories. For any question about the product, pricing or a migration project, reach us by email at contact@octav.it or by phone at +33 7 83 88 90 11.
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