Source and attribution
Hoist address intelligence incorporates or is developed using G-NAF, the Geocoded National Address File published through Geoscape and the Commonwealth open data program.
What address matching can show
An address match can indicate that a supplied Australian address is parseable, normalisable, and consistent with a recognised address reference. In an Evidence Pack, this is useful for comparing invoice, counterparty, and source-check addresses without treating free text as authoritative.
- Address shape: whether the supplied address can be split into Australian address components.
- Reference consistency: whether the normalised address appears consistent with a G-NAF-backed reference.
- Mismatch flags: whether locality, state, postcode, unit, lot, or street components appear inconsistent.
- Source currency: which source release or effective date supports the result when returned.
What address matching does not prove
Address evidence is not identity evidence. A high address-confidence result does not mean a person or company owns, occupies, controls, or can receive mail at the address.
- It does not identify who lives at a residential address.
- It does not prove a company occupies or controls a site.
- It does not prove beneficial ownership, property ownership, or tenancy.
- It does not prove that a supplier controls the bank account on an invoice.
- It is not a postal-delivery guarantee. Mailing use requires secondary verification before an address is used to send mail.
- It is not live registry truth unless the Evidence Pack explicitly says a live source check ran.
Currency and refresh language
G-NAF is a periodic open-data source, not a real-time registry lookup. Hoist should surface the source release label, effective date, and any known staleness when address evidence is returned. If a result is sample-data, snapshot-backed, or unavailable, the Evidence Pack must say so.
How to use the signal
Treat address confidence as one input in a broader due-diligence review. It is most useful when it agrees or disagrees with other source checks, such as ABN, ASIC, PPSR, invoice, or counterparty evidence. Where the address signal conflicts with other evidence, Hoist should raise a human review item instead of converting the mismatch into a final decision.
Related glossary
- G-NAF: the Australian address dataset Hoist uses for address evidence.
- Address confidence: the confidence signal produced when supplied address text is compared with address evidence.
- Evidence Pack: the result bundle where address signals sit alongside source checks and human review items.