Every compliance officer faces the same question at budget time: “Which training gaps should we close first?” The answer usually involves gut feel, spreadsheet modelling, and internal politics. We built the What-If Simulator to replace all three with data.
How it works
The simulator presents every open training gap as a selectable item. Each gap shows the course name, the number of affected employees, the estimated compliance uplift, and the estimated cost per person.
Select the gaps you want to close. The simulator instantly shows your projected rank improvement, your new compliance score, and your estimated percentile — all without making an API call. The calculations run client-side using the same scoring algorithm as the live compliance engine.
The ghost dot
The most satisfying feature is the ghost dot. When you run a simulation, a dashed point appears on the Compliance Constellation showing where your organisation would move to if you closed the selected gaps. The spatial feedback is immediate: you can see yourself jumping from the amber zone into the green zone, leapfrogging peer organisations in the process.
This visual connection between the simulator and the constellation turned what could have been a dry financial tool into something compliance officers actually enjoy using.
Procurement justification
For councils, every training dollar needs justification. The simulator generates the data needed to build a business case: “By investing $42,500 in these five courses, we project a 12-rank improvement, moving from 42nd to 30th out of 79 councils.” That’s a sentence a director can take to a budget meeting.
The cost-per-rank-improvement metric has become a key decision-making tool for councils allocating discretionary training budgets.
What we learned
The most popular simulation isn’t “close everything” — it’s “close the cheapest gaps with the highest uplift.” Compliance officers are natural optimisers when given the right data. The simulator surface revealed patterns that weren’t visible in spreadsheets: some low-cost courses (like Mental Health First Aid at $175/person) deliver outsized compliance uplift because they affect large numbers of staff.
The What-If Simulator pairs naturally with the Compliance Horizon — the simulator tells you what to invest in, and the Horizon shows you when those investments will pay off. Together, they replace reactive gap-chasing with proactive compliance planning.