countfor.me has opened The Peer Project for Australian hospitality operators who want better evidence for supplier price conversations. The public page explains how venues can join, connect invoice data, and help build anonymised regional benchmarks for everyday supplier lines.
The important product shift is not a promise that every benchmark is already live for every venue. The work now in place gives operators a clearer public entry point while the product prepares stricter privacy, product matching, and data-readiness checks behind the scenes.
What changed
- A dedicated Australian Peer Project page is now available for hospitality operators.
- The page explains the opt-in workflow, anonymised regional pooling, and the idea that benchmarks unlock as enough comparable venue data exists.
- A data and anonymisation page documents the narrower fairness promise: like-for-like products using the same product, same pack size, and same unit where the data allows.
- Recent backend work adds privacy-gated peer benchmark serving rows, exact-pack identity checks, and readiness logic for supported categories.
- Recent frontend work adds an internal/staging readiness panel to show when invoice lines have enough product and pack evidence to contribute safely.
Why it matters
Supplier price conversations are difficult when an operator only has their own invoice history. A regional benchmark can make the discussion more concrete, but only if the comparison is anonymous, like-for-like, and backed by enough observations.
That is the reason The Peer Project is being introduced as a participation and data-quality workflow first. The public website sets expectations for Australian operators, while the product work focuses on contribution consent, product identity, pack-size evidence, regional privacy thresholds, and clear reasons when a line is not ready.
For Australian venues, the practical message is simple: joining the project helps build the local comparison set, and the product will only become useful when there is enough comparable data to protect venues and support fair supplier conversations.