LOOK
Civic signal, clustered
Weekly brief from national, local, and specialist press — tagged so patterns surface.
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Story-led training for UK local government
Training your officers will actually finish.
ambivalence is a catalogue of 16 short civic films about the decisions councils are making this year — reorganisation under review, a Procurement Act in its second year, Neighbourhood Boards spending £20 million, the first Environmental Delivery Plans. Every choice a learner makes is scored against a published competency framework and earns a credential they keep.
16
Episodes, two seasons
9×4
Competency grid
OB3
Portable credentials
RM6219
Listing in progress
Latest releases
Season 2 is out. Season 3 is in production.
Written into the reforms of 2026 as they landed — procurement, devolution, reorganisation, planning, Neighbourhood Boards. See every episode →
S2 · E08
The Loop
S2 · E07
The Assembly
S2 · E06
Letter Before Action
S2 · E05
The Levy
In production
Season 3
Now being written and shot. Episodes are announced as they are released.
Where off-the-shelf libraries stop
Free training teaches the rules. This is for the decisions.
The Procurement Act's rules and the basics of AI are taught free. These are the subjects councils are living through in 2026, and the ones free e-learning doesn't reach.
A reorganisation under review
The Line That Divides, The Migration, The Rivers of the Watershed
A judicial review of a reorganisation
Environmental Delivery Plans
Neighbourhood Boards and £20 million
How it works in a council
One officer, one week.
Take a procurement officer whose council has just licensed ambivalence.
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Monday
Six minutes between meetings
She opens The Price of Certainty on her laptop. A procurement officer, the morning after a compliance window closed. It feels uncomfortably familiar.
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Inside the episode
Decisions, not quizzes
She rates a supplier, answers a journalist, commits a record — or doesn't. Each choice is scored against a published rubric cell, not a completion tick.
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Friday
Her L&D lead sees the map
The team's competency map fills in by domain and tier, and for councils that run an LRS, connecting it is part of the Pilot.
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Next year
The credential goes with her
Her Open Badges 3.0 credential is signed and verifiable by anyone — and it survives a reorganisation, a new employer, or the end of the licence.
The product
Current news. Capable judgment. One platform.
ambivalence pairs civic sense-making with cinematic episodes — scored against a published rubric, not attendance.
LEARN
Cinematic fables
Produced episodes with reflection and branching — credentials that travel with the learner.
See the episodes →
For the whole buying committee
Watched by learners. Cleared by IG. Signed off by one budget holder.
Learners
Short, cinematic, finished in one sitting. Subtitled, keyboard-accessible, and written about the job they actually do.
L&D and people teams
A 9×4 competency map instead of completion rates, an admin dashboard for cohorts and seats, and xAPI into your LRS built with you during the Pilot.
Why it works →
Procurement
A £4,950 Pilot is one purchase order: six months, up to 250 learners, small enough for most budget holders to approve themselves. Licences from £9,950. No VAT charged. RM6219 listing in progress.
Licensing routes →
Information governance
EU hosting (IONOS, Germany), UK GDPR, practice aligned to the NCSC Cloud Security Principles, and an accessibility statement targeting WCAG 2.2 AA.
Trust & security →
How we ship
A studio pipeline, not a content agency
Three in-house tools turn a research brief into narration, video, interactions, and credentials. Weeks, not quarters.
ScriptHub
Authoring: episode structure, interactions, rubric mapping, branching narrative — competency framework baked in.
SoundBox
Production: narration, sound design, video, subtitles, multilingual exports — scripts in, publishable episodes out.
ambivalence
Delivery: learners watch, respond, and collect credentials; people teams see the competency map fill in real time.