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Comparison
Q-Hub vs AuditBoard
AuditBoard is now Optro, and describes itself as "AI-Powered GRC Software". It is built for the assurance function — controls testing, third-party risk, cyber risk, internal audit. Q-Hub runs the operational QHSE system on the site. These are two different jobs, and a buyer should usually be choosing between them, not comparing them feature by feature.
Optro (formerly AuditBoard) is a trademark of its owner. Shown here to identify the product being compared; Q-Hub is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Compliance Report · Q1 2026Export PDF
Compliance 94% +3.2
Open NCRs 12 -5
On-time close 88% +6.1
Overdue 3 -2
Compliance trend
Compliance by site
The short answer
Read this and you may not need the rest of the page.
Choose Optro if…
You are an internal audit, risk or compliance function testing controls, managing third-party risk, or reporting to an audit committee. That is what a GRC platform is for.
Choose Q-Hub if…
You are running quality, health, safety and environment on an operating site — incidents, audits, CAPA, documents, training — and certifying to ISO standards.
Choose both if…
Large organisations often run GRC at the centre and QHSE on the sites. They answer to different people and neither replaces the other.
At a glance
Every row is checkable. The Optro column reflects what they publish on their own product page. AuditBoard renamed to Optro — auditboard.com now redirects to optro.ai and their page carries "Optro (formerly AuditBoard)". Source: optro.ai, read 21 September 2026.
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| Feature | Optro (formerly AuditBoard) | Q-Hub |
|---|---|---|
| What each covers | ||
Built for EvidenceOptro describes itself as "AI-Powered GRC Software", naming Controls Management, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management and TPRM. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | GRC and internal audit | Operational quality, health, safety and environment |
Health & safety management EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | ✓ |
Environmental management EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | ✓ |
Quality management EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | ✓ |
Document control EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | ✓ |
CAPA / corrective actions EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | ✓ |
Incident and near-miss reporting EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | ✓ |
Training and competence EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | ✓ |
ISO 9001 / 45001 / 14001 named EvidenceTheir product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name this. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Not named on their product page | All three |
Audit management EvidenceTheir page names "OpsAudit" and "Risk-based audits". Both platforms run audits, for different purposes. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — risk-based audits | Yes — ISO audit programme |
Risk management EvidenceTheir page names "RiskOversight" and risk management explicitly. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commercials | ||
| Published pricing | Not published | Yes — from £85/month |
| Where they go further | ||
GRC frameworks and controls testing EvidenceTheir page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, CrossComply and RegComply. Q-Hub does not do controls testing or regulatory compliance mapping for GRC. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — Controls Management, CrossComply, RegComply | No — not offered |
Third-party risk management EvidenceTheir page names "TPRM (Third-Party Risk Management)". Q-Hub manages suppliers and supplier audits, which is a narrower job. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — TPRM | Supplier management, not TPRM |
Cyber risk and AI governance EvidenceTheir page names "Cyber Risk Management" and "AI Governance". Q-Hub covers neither. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — both named | No — not offered |
Business continuity management EvidenceTheir page names "BCM (Business Continuity Management)". Q-Hub does not offer business continuity. Source · checked 2026-09-21 | Yes — BCM | No — not offered |
Competitor pricing as published by each vendor. Figures marked ≈ are converted from the currency they were published in at today’s rate, for comparison only.
Competitor details read from their own published materials, last checked 2026-09-21.
Where Q-Hub is the better choice
Five differences that change the day-to-day, not a feature list.
QHSE all four letters
Health, safety and environment
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Not named on their product page
- Q-Hub
- Yes
Optro’s product page names Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, AI Governance, OpsAudit, BCM, CrossComply, RiskOversight, Cyber Risk Management, RegComply and TPRM. It does not name health and safety, environmental management or quality management.
CAPA and incident reporting on the floor
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Not named on their product page
- Q-Hub
- Yes
Incident reporting and corrective action are not named on their product page. Q-Hub takes a near miss from a phone in under a minute through investigation to a verified corrective action.
Document control for certification
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Not named on their product page
- Q-Hub
- Yes
Document control is not named among their capabilities. Q-Hub holds controlled documents with version history, approval routing and sign-off — the evidence an ISO auditor asks for.
£85 a month, published
You can see the price before you speak to anyone
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Not published
- Q-Hub
- Yes — from £85/month
No pricing figures appear on their product page. Q-Hub publishes its plans.
3 ISO standards, one programme
ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 are named, not inferred
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Not named on their product page
- Q-Hub
- All three
Optro's product page does not name ISO 9001, ISO 45001 or ISO 14001. Q-Hub names all three and runs them as a single audit programme, so a finding closes against whichever standard it belongs to without being re-entered anywhere.
What a finding turns into
Optro audits the business. This is what happens on the floor afterwards: the finding raises a corrective action with an owner, a root cause and a verification step that has to pass before anything closes.
CAPA-142 Forklift near-miss — corrective & preventive action BS Due 12 Mar
✓Raised ✓Root cause 3Action 4Verify 5Closed
Root cause · 5 Whys
Segregation not enforced during peak unloading — no physical barrier and SOP silent on pedestrian route.
Action items
Re-train loading-bay team on segregation
Install physical barrier + floor markings
Update SOP-014 and re-issue
Where Optro is the better choice
Cases where we would tell you to choose them, because a comparison page that never concedes is not worth reading.
You need GRC controls testing
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Yes — Controls Management, CrossComply, RegComply
- Q-Hub
- No — not offered
They name Controls Management, Autonomous Testing, CrossComply and RegComply. Q-Hub does not do controls testing or regulatory mapping for GRC, and would not try.
You manage third-party or cyber risk
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Yes — TPRM
- Q-Hub
- Supplier management, not TPRM
They name TPRM and Cyber Risk Management. Q-Hub manages suppliers and supplier audits, which is a narrower job than third-party risk across an enterprise.
You need business continuity
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
- Yes — BCM
- Q-Hub
- No — not offered
They name BCM and AI Governance. Q-Hub offers neither.
What you would actually pay
Set your team size and see the Q-Hub price. Optro (formerly AuditBoard) does not publish figures, so nothing on their side is estimated — their column quotes their own pricing page.
Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
Not published
Published pricing is not available, so the figure depends on a quote.
Q-Hub figures are our published prices. Optro (formerly AuditBoard) does not publish prices, so nothing is estimated on their side — their column quotes their own pricing page, read 2026-09-21.
Feature deep-dive
Optro, formerly AuditBoard, is a governance, risk and compliance platform. It audits the business. Q-Hub runs the operation. That single difference decides which one you need, and it is not a question of which is better software.
Their product page names risk-based audits, controls management, third-party risk, cyber risk, AI governance and business continuity. It does not name health and safety management, environmental management, quality management, document control, CAPA, incident reporting or training. Those are the daily jobs on an operating site, and they are what Q-Hub is built around.
So the honest read is that neither platform names the other's core ground. If your audit programme is ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 rather than controls testing and SOX, an internal-audit platform is the wrong shape however well it is built.
- ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 as the core system
- Incident and near-miss reporting from the floor
- CAPA and document control included, not add-ons
- Published pricing from £85/month
ISO 9001 Internal Audit · Site A 68% JS
Audit checklist
4.2 Document control procedures reviewed Conform
5.1 Management responsibility evidenced Conform
6.1 Resource management adequate Conform
7.1 Product realisation processes verified Nonconformity
8.2 Monitoring & measurement calibrated Observation
Switching from Optro
What a move actually involves.
This is usually not a switch
Most organisations that look at both end up running GRC at the centre and QHSE on the sites. Replacing one with the other rarely works.
What comes across
If you are moving operational audit and action tracking into Q-Hub: audit history, findings, actions and documents, mapped rather than flattened.
What stays behind
Controls libraries, third-party risk registers and anything feeding an audit committee. We do not hold them.
What we cannot promise
We have not migrated an AuditBoard or Optro tenant end to end.
Trusted by compliance teams worldwide
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“Qhub provides a visible, intuitive way to manage data and workflows, revolutionising our approach to operations”
Fowlers of Bristol (Engineers) Ltd
Operations director
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“Qhub helps us to... proactively use our QMS... and increase efficiency”
Anglia Cathodic Protection Services
Business manager
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“Really made a difference with providing compliance during audits – both regulatory, customer, and internal.”
Auxitrol Weston
Quality manager
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“QHub has supported us in achieving a higher compliance rate.”
BMC Analysis
Technical Manager/ Quality Manage
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“We can't believe how fast we were able to get it up and running.”
Cawood Group
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“Managing NCRs are now so much easier”
Enviromesh
Quality manager
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“Where was this 2 years ago... we're blown away”
Jaltek
Compliance manager for Jaltek
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“Qhub has improved our safety management system no end, making it very efficient”
Rocal Endurance Doors
Compliance manager
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“We use it for as much as possible.”
Scottish Leather Group
Compliance manager
Integrations
Connects with the tools you already use
Q-Hub connects to your existing tools via REST API, webhooks and SSO, with bespoke connectors on request. More integrations coming soon.
Microsoft 365
SharePoint
Teams
Slack
Google Workspace
Power BI
Jira
SAP
Salesforce
Enterprise Security
Your data is safe with us
Each certification and commitment, with the detail behind it.
ISO 27001 Independently audited information security management, certified to ISO/IEC 27001.
Cyber Essentials UK Government-backed certification against the most common cyber attacks.
GDPR Compliant Full compliance with UK & EU data protection law.
99.9% Uptime SLA Guaranteed platform availability, backed by our SLA.
UK Data Centres All customer data hosted in ISO 27001-certified UK data centres.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes. auditboard.com now redirects to optro.ai, and their own page carries "Optro (formerly AuditBoard)". Same product, new name.
No. Controls testing, third-party risk, cyber risk and business continuity are not things Q-Hub does. If you need GRC, you need a GRC platform.
Health and safety, environmental management, quality management, document control, CAPA, incident reporting and training — none of which are named on their product page.
Yes, and many organisations do: GRC at the centre for assurance, Q-Hub on the sites for operational QHSE. They connect via REST API, webhooks and SSO.
Published: £85, £245 and £530 a month, with implementation included. Optro publishes no figures.
Four weeks is standard, including data migration and role-based training.
Yes — the three standards share a harmonised ten-clause structure, which is why BSI, the UK national standards body, runs them as a single integrated management system: “an integrated management system for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001”. Q-Hub runs all three as one audit programme, so a finding closes once against whichever standard it belongs to instead of being re-entered somewhere else. Optro’s product page does not name them, which follows from it being a GRC platform rather than an operational QHSE one.
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