Track your Compliance Engine reports through an API

What you can build on TCE

• Get open and rejected reports

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  Reads the Open/Rejected Reports list with Progress and Status set to ALL, including the AHJ's reason for each rejected report.

  Takes

  Progress (optional: In Process or Rejected)

  Returns

  Report number, premises, AHJ, system, service date, progress, rejection reason

• Check Reports Ready for Payment

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  Reads the Reports Ready for Payment folder: the reports submitted to AHJs that wait for processing around midnight Central time.

  Takes

  Nothing

  Returns

  Report number, premises, AHJ, system, submitted date, new premises awaiting AHJ review

• Get open deficiencies

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  Reads Deficiency Tracking for an AHJ or premises: each premises, its systems with open deficiencies and every deficiency as it was reported.

  Takes

  AHJ, premises name or address (optional)

  Returns

  Premises, address, AHJ, system type, deficiency, status

• Mark a repaired deficiency as compliant

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  In Deficiency Tracking, sets a deficiency your company reported from Open to Compliant with the repair date, attaches proof and saves it for the AHJ to approve.

  Takes

  Premises, system type, deficiency, repair date, proof file

  Returns

  Premises, system type, deficiency, status, repair date

Automate TCE with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Rejected reports, every morning

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  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  Get the open and rejected reports from the Open/Rejected Reports list.

  Step 2

  Keep the reports in Rejected progress that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you each one with its premises, AHJ, system and the AHJ's rejection reason.

• Reports Ready for Payment, before midnight

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  Starts

  Every weekday at 17:00 Central time

  Step 1

  Read the Reports Ready for Payment folder.

  Step 2

  Keep reports submitted before today, premises marked ** and reports that look like duplicates.

  Step 3

  Stop when there are none, otherwise email you the list before the midnight charge.

• New open deficiencies per AHJ, every week

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  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  For each AHJ you name, get the open deficiencies from Deficiency Tracking.

  Step 2

  Keep the deficiencies that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Post premises, address, system type and deficiency to your webhook, such as your service CRM.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get open and rejected reports” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "tce-pwa.thecomplianceengine.com/get_open_rejected_reports",
    "input": {
      "progress": "Rejected"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "reports": [
      {
        "report_number": "RN-4418207",
        "premises": "Northwind Distribution Center",
        "ahj": "Acme County Fire District",
        "system": "Fire Sprinkler",
        "service_date": "2026-11-03",
        "progress": "Rejected",
        "rejection_reason": "Attached report is for a different address. Please attach the inspection for this premises."
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

TCE’s own options

BRYCER documents no public API for The Compliance Engine. Its own ways to get reports in are TCE's screens and Compliance Sync, a $5-per-report service where BRYCER's staff enter the reports you email or send from BuildingReports. Reading your reports, payments and deficiencies back out is done on TCE's screens.

Read on November 12, 2026: BRYCER launches Compliance Sync, How to Submit Inspection/Service Reports to the AHJ, How to Find AHJ Information.

Signing in to TCE

TCE signs you in with a username, which is your email address, and a password. A company's users are Company Users or Company Administrators, and administrators can also view financial information. With Fous you sign in once through TCE's own sign-in with your own user: the login is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Reports are charged around midnight

Reports submitted during the day wait in Reports Ready for Payment and are processed around midnight Central time. A duplicate still in that folder at midnight is charged as well.

Old reports in Ready for Payment mean a hold

A report from an earlier day still in the folder may mean your company's credit card is not valid, or that its premises, marked **, has not been reviewed by the AHJ yet.

Each AHJ sets its own fee

The submittal fee per report and the systems an AHJ tracks are under the AHJs tab, which lists the AHJs in the service area set in My Service Provider.

Deficiencies go out exactly as typed

Deficiencies appear as entered on the report to the Fire Marshal and on the notice to the premises. Only the company that reported them can mark them Compliant; others submit a repair report.

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