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PortalBase vs HSI.

Both work offline, both run training, and both have AI that draws on your own documents. PortalBase also signs people in with no company email, connects your own AI tools and builds your OSHA logs from your incident reports. HSI doesn't state those on its site.

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PortalBase and HSI, side by side.

Every line about HSI comes from its own pages, with the source number beside it.

  • Works with no signal

    PortalBase

    Yes

    Training, forms and inspections work with no signal on native iOS and Android apps, and sync when the phone is back in range.

    HSI

    Yes

    Says workers can complete audits and log hazards and incidents offline, and tasks sync once reconnected.[2]

  • Sign-in with no company email

    PortalBase

    Yes

    A code by text, an employee ID and PIN, or a QR badge on a shared device. Company single sign-on for the office.

    HSI

    In part

    Lists single sign-on, and self-registration for training. Its pages don't say how someone with no company email signs in.[2][3]

  • Training, inspections, forms and safety records in one system

    PortalBase

    Yes

    Training, forms, inspections, safety records, corrective actions and communications share one list of people and one record.

    HSI

    Yes

    Says one platform connects EHS, compliance, risk and training, with audits, inspections, incidents, corrective actions and certifications.[1]

  • Training with sign-offs and certifications

    PortalBase

    Yes

    Courses from your PDFs, slide decks and SCORM packages, with quizzes, sign-offs and certifications that alert before they lapse.

    HSI

    Yes

    Lists a learning management system with a course library, recurring training assignments and certificates of completion.[1][3]

  • AI that answers from your documents

    PortalBase

    Yes

    PortalBase AI answers from your documents and records, with the source shown, and drafts forms, trainings and workflows for a person to publish.

    HSI

    Yes

    Says its Sky assistant draws on customer-provided policies and procedures and the company's own records.[4]

  • Your own AI connects

    PortalBase

    Yes

    PortalBase is listed in Claude's connector directory and ChatGPT's app directory. Microsoft 365 Copilot connects too. Each connection acts only as the person who signed in.

    HSI

    Not stated on their site

  • OSHA 300, 300A and 301 logs

    PortalBase

    Yes

    Built from your incident reports, as PDFs, with the CSV for OSHA's ITA. You review and file.

    HSI

    Not stated on their site

  • A demo built for your company

    PortalBase

    Yes

    We send a demo built for your company, with your kind of work in it, before you decide.

    HSI

    Not stated on their site

A dash means the pages we read don’t say, not that HSI can’t. An X appears only where HSI’s own page says so. Checked November 10, 2026.

What we already do better.

Signed in for 30 days with no signal.

After one sign-in with signal, people stay signed in for 30 days with no signal at all. Training, forms and inspections keep working the whole time.

Saved the moment it's done.

Work saves on the phone the moment it's done, and sends itself when signal is back. Nobody has to press sync.

One app for training, inspections and forms.

Teams do their training, inspections and forms in one app, with one sign-in and one record for each person.

Why teams switch to PortalBase.

Everyone gets a way in.

Plenty of frontline people have no company email. They sign in with a code by text, an employee ID and PIN, or a QR badge on a shared tablet, and the record is still theirs.

Your own AI, acting as you.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot. PortalBase is listed in Claude's and ChatGPT's directories, and each connection sees only what that person can.

OSHA logs from records you already keep.

The 300, 300A and 301 come from your incident reports as PDFs, with the CSV for OSHA's ITA. You review and file.

See it with your own work in it.

We send a demo built for your company before you decide, so you judge it on your own forms and your own people.

The OSHA 300 log for Plant 1 Cudahy, a made-up demo plant, marked 300A certified: tiles for 5 recordable cases, 16 days away, a TRIR of 8.45 and a DART of 5.07, then the five cases with case number, employee, job title, date, where, how it was classified, days away, days restricted and type.

About HSI, in its own words

Sources, checked November 10, 2026

  1. HSI home page, hsi.com, read November 10, 2026
  2. HSI mobile and offline page, hsi.com, read November 10, 2026
  3. HSI learning management system page, hsi.com, read November 10, 2026
  4. HSI Sky AI assistant page, hsi.com, read November 10, 2026

Everything we say about another company comes from its own pages, read on the day shown. “Not stated on their site” means just that. See something wrong or out of date? Tell us at hello@portalbaseai.com and we’ll fix it.

See it with your own work in it.

Tell us your sites and the checks you run. We'll send a demo built for your company and show it on a phone with no signal.

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Common questions

Can I bring my own courses to PortalBase?
Yes. PortalBase builds courses from your PDFs, slide decks and SCORM packages, with quizzes, sign-offs and certifications that alert before they lapse.
Can PortalBase replace HSI?
PortalBase runs training, forms, inspections, incident reports, corrective actions and certifications on native apps that work with no signal. Bring us the courses and checks you use today and we'll show them in a demo built for your company.
Can I move my HSI forms over?
PortalBase AI drafts a form or an inspection from a sentence, or from a photo of the form you use now. A person checks it and publishes. Bring one of yours to a walkthrough and we'll rebuild it with you.