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 short civic films — 16 episodes across two seasons — where every decision a learner makes maps to 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. 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.
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 statements flow to the council's LRS if it has one.
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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. Bought through routes you already use.
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, xAPI statements into your LRS, and an admin dashboard for cohorts and seats.
Why it works →
Procurement
Direct award below threshold, devolved skills frameworks or partner-led delivery, invoiced. 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.