Built for workforce-scale civic learning, not individual users.
ambivalence runs at council scale, alongside the LMS you already use. Councils, combined authorities, housing associations, national park authorities and police governance teams all start the same way: a Pilot, then a licence when it has proved itself.
- The full catalogue for up to 250 learners
- Reports at months three and six, and a close-out report
- Success measures agreed with you before anything is signed
- The full fee credited against your first year if you licence within 60 days
Three routes, all of them short
We agree scope, support and the Pilot's success measures with you first: activation, completion, a short confidence check, and who decides at month six. Then you get a proposal your organisation can take through its usual approvals.
One officer's decision
Priced under the £5,000 point at which many public bodies ask for more quotes. We supply the order form, data-processing schedule and accessibility evidence your approvers will want.
Scale when it works
An annual licence for your workforce. Larger contracts can go through the RM6219 DPS (listing in progress) or a framework partner you already use.
Through someone you trust
Buy through an L&D partner, university or consortium you already work with. Your people get the same platform, without new friction.
Tenancy, analytics, multilingual: out of the box
Cohort design, custom rubrics and white-labelled badges are a conversation, not a paywall.
Your own workspace
Create cohorts, assign episodes, issue invite tokens and manage seats and licence periods from one admin dashboard, with no support ticket for the everyday things.
Analytics you can defend at Cabinet
Active learners, badge distribution, domain strength and completion, sliced by cohort, role and directorate.
Multilingual & accessible
Interface in English, Arabic (right to left), French, German and Japanese. English captions on every episode; Arabic, French, German and Japanese on S1E1 and S1E2. Targeting WCAG 2.2 AA. Accessibility statement →
Connecting to your LMS and LRS (xAPI)
ambivalence sits alongside your LMS rather than replacing it. If your council runs a Learning Record Store, connecting it is a Pilot objective: we agree the statements you want (interactions, completions, credential awards), send them to your endpoint, and prove they arrive before the Pilot review. Typically that is an LRS fronted by Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard or Totara, or a standalone one such as SCORM Cloud.
Each tenancy points at its own LRS, and data stays in the UK and EU end to end. No LRS? Every learner still gets signed Open Badges 3.0 credentials with public verify links, which suits smaller councils, arm's-length bodies and short pilots.
Progress L&D can point to
Every interaction maps to a cell in the 9 × 4 competency framework. How credentials work →
The same decisions, inside and outside the town hall
Councils integrating workforces
Surrey's two new councils vest on 1 April 2027, fourteen other areas are paused while the government reviews July's decisions, and the 2023 unitaries are still integrating. One civic vocabulary, whichever predecessor your people came from.
Housing associations
The Regulator of Social Housing's Competence and Conduct Standard has applied since 1 October 2026. Lead with The Weight of the Key and Twenty Million Pounds and a Neighbourhood.
National park authorities
A general power of competence since 29 June 2026, and new partnership plans to deliver. Lead with The Levy and The Long View.
Police governance teams
The government plans to end police and crime commissioners in May 2028 and move their functions to mayors or council-led boards. Lead with The Line That Divides.
Tell us about your organisation
No deck required. A few lines on your organisation, your L&D stack and what a sensible first step would be is enough for a concise, useful proposal.