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For organisations

Built to be trusted with a decision

A decision made on a model has to survive the question of where the model's numbers came from. This one is built so that question always has an answer on the page: every figure sourced, every answer worked, every run repeatable, and the organisation's own data kept where it can see it.

What an organisation can rely on

01

Every figure has a source

Every country field carries a provenance mark, every refreshed value its source and year, every live source its name and the time it answered, and every analyst row the file, feed or equation it came from.

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Every answer has its working

The analyst lists its plan, its evidence and its conclusions with their citations and confidence, and the written up version is checked sentence by sentence against the evidence on the server.

03

Every run can be repeated

A scenario is saved with its sentences, its seed, its number of futures and its focus. The same seed plays the same futures, so a result shown in a meeting can be replayed exactly afterwards.

04

An audit trail you can keep

Analyses kept against the account, each with its question, plan, evidence and conclusions as they stood when asked; every analysis and the company reading as a report for print or PDF; the evidence table as CSV, the whole analysis as JSON, every table on every tab as CSV, and the briefing with the source of every sentence in the Working tab.

05

Ranges, not a single number

The company is priced in every future the run played, so a board sees the spread, the share of futures that lose and the result in each way a decision could go, with what was kept at the median named.

06

Tested against the record

The model is started from a past year with that year's figures and scored against what the World Bank recorded after it, and the result is printed whichever way it comes out, with what flatters it named.

07

Stress tested on your own files

The shocks your suppliers, routes and markets are most exposed to, each run alone and priced line by line, ranked by the worst year.

08

One world for the team

Analyses shared with every member, saved scenarios shared with a switch, the organisation's company files published by an administrator, and one set of world figures for everyone.

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Signs to watch

Every way a scenario could go comes with the signs in the world that would show it happening, and what the live desk reads for the parties today, so a plan can be revisited when the signs appear rather than on a calendar.

10

Your data stays yours

Company files are kept against the account that uploaded them or in that browser only, and are sent nowhere else. When a written answer is asked for, the model provider is sent the question and the evidence rows it is written from, which can include lines about the company; never the files themselves.

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Access set by role

Whether visitors must sign in to run it, who may save, and who may spend the model key (administrators, members or everyone) are settings. World figures from the app are for administrators only.

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Spend has a ceiling

The model key lives on the server and is never sent to a browser. A monthly allowance caps what it can spend, and the count is shown to administrators.

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It runs where people are

The simulation runs in the browser: no queue, no credits, no upload of what anyone is thinking about. When a host blocks the WordPress data routes, the app takes a second road through admin-ajax on its own.

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Readable by everyone

Controls carry visible labels tied to them, the text in every theme clears 4.5 to 1 against what it sits on, and every motion stops under reduced motion. The accessibility page says what is done and what is not yet.

Where each thing is kept

WhatWhereWho can see it
The world recordThe WordPress database, over the curated dataset shipped with the pluginEveryone who may run the simulator
World figures you supplyBeside the record, marked as yours, removable in one stepEveryone who may run it; only administrators may change them
Company filesThe uploading account, or that browser onlyThat account, or that browser
Kept analysesThe account that kept them (fifty at most, a megabyte in all), or that browser onlyThat account, or that browser
Analyses shared with the teamThe site, a hundred at mostEveryone allowed to save; taken down by whoever shared it or an administrator
The organisation's company filesThe site, published by an administratorEveryone allowed to save; changed only by administrators
The record's history, for the backtestThe site, fetched from the World Bank and kept thirty daysEveryone who may run the simulator
Saved scenariosThe site, against the account that saved themThat account and administrators, unless it is marked public
The model keyThe site's options, server side only; the settings screen shows its last four charactersNobody, in full
A runThe browser that ran it; a saved run keeps a summary onlyThe person who ran it

What this page does not claim

No certification

Nothing here is certified by anybody, and nothing on this site says otherwise. What it offers instead is the ability to check every number yourself.

No customer list

There are no logos, quotes or case studies on this site, because none would be honest to print yet.

No prediction

A run is a distribution with a stated reliability and the coefficients it is most sensitive to. The analyst says how sure it is and what would change its answer.

Talk to us about your deployment

Who should run it, who should save, where the model key should sit, which world figures you want to supply, and what the data room should hold for your organisation.

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