How the return is calculated.
Every line states its basis, and the two totals are never added together.
Because the number has to survive the meeting.
An internship return is easy to assert and hard to defend. Most tools quietly fold the forecast into the headline: offers you expect to make, retention you hope for, brand benefit. This one refuses to, and says so on the report.
“Verified value only — work that was reviewed and accepted.”
Verified and strategic never mix
Two columns, two totals. The board sees what happened and what might; it is never asked to take one for the other.
The record cannot be rewritten
Submissions, reviews, KPI measurements, audit events and ROI snapshots are append-only at the database level — by construction, not by policy. What an intern did is not editable after the fact, by anyone, including the operator.
Every figure carries its engine version
A report names the methodology version that produced it. A published version is frozen; a correction is a new version, not an edit.
You can look before you commit
Every new account opens with two fully-worked example programmes — one running, one finished — badged as sample data. Nothing real has to be entered to see how the arithmetic behaves.
What is counted, and what deliberately is not.
Written for the person who intends to disagree. Each line states its basis; the two totals are never added together.
| Line | Basis | In headline |
|---|---|---|
| Productive contribution | What the work the programme actually produced is worth, benchmarked against buying the same output as a full-time hire. Counted only where a supervisor reviewed and accepted it. | Verified |
| Emiratisation quota saving | The quota cost your company does not carry while an Emirati intern is on the programme. Driven by the published MoHRE rate for the year in question — a dated input the engine keeps current, never a constant compiled into the product. | Verified |
| Recruiting cost avoided | What converting an intern saves against hiring the same person on the open market. At planning time it has not happened, so it never reaches the headline. | Strategic |
| Retention value at two years | The value of a hire who stays two years rather than leaving. Also a forecast, and reported as one. | Strategic |
| Costs | What the programme costs you to run, taken across the whole cycle rather than the stipend alone. | Subtracted |
A published version is frozen
The engine is named and versioned. Every report records the version that produced it. A published version can never be edited; correcting the method means publishing a new version, so an old report keeps meaning what it meant.
Three derived figures
- Break-even
- The month the programme stops costing more than it has returned. A single month, never a range.
- KPI achievement
- One weighted figure for how much of what was agreed was actually met.
- Task weights
- Set against the effort a task genuinely took, so a large piece of work cannot be outweighed by a trivial one.
A return is named, not just numbered
Six bands, in plain words, so a figure means the same thing to everyone in the room. Where a programme falls is stated on the report beside the number itself.
- progressing
- promising
- really good
- strongthe example above
- excellent
- exceeding expectations
A programme that has not yet returned its cost is reported as a negative return, in those words.
This page is the summary
The specification is not published here. Customers get the whole of it where it is useful: the report states the basis of every figure it prints, names the engine version that produced it, and lists the inputs it was given — so the number can be audited by the people who have to stand behind it.
A document of record, not a dashboard view.
Generating a report freezes it. The figures, the inputs and the engine version are captured as they stood, and the document is numbered v1, v2 and onward. Share it by a link that expires after 7, 30 or 90 days, or print it.
Only a fingerprint of a share link is stored, so a link cannot be recovered from the database — it can only be replaced.2
2 If a shared link should no longer work, revoke it and issue a new one. Nobody — including the operator — can retrieve the original URL from storage.
Questions a sceptic asks first
Isn't this just a spreadsheet with a login?
A spreadsheet lets you change last month's figures. This does not. Reviews, measurements and snapshots are append-only, the report is frozen at generation, and the engine version is recorded — which is the difference between a working file and a document you can hand to a board.
Why is the headline number lower than other tools would give?
Because it excludes everything that has not happened. Recruiting cost avoided and two-year retention value are calculated and shown beside the headline as strategic value. They are real considerations; they are not results.
Where does the Emiratisation figure come from?
From the published MoHRE shortfall rate for the year in question, applied for each Emirati intern for each month they are on the programme. The rate is a dated input the engine keeps current, not a constant baked into the product: the report names the rate year it used and tells the reader to verify it against current MoHRE guidance.
Can a supervisor see other supervisors' interns?
No. A supervisor sees their own interns and their own review queue. The company admin sees the whole programme. Separate organisations under one owner see nothing of each other.
We already ran a programme. Can we report on it now?
Only to the extent the work was reviewed and accepted in the system. Verified value comes from review decisions, so a programme that ran elsewhere can be recorded, but its headline return will reflect only what is evidenced here.
Where is our data held?
In Supabase, eu-central-2 (Switzerland), with the application served from a global edge network. Personal data about people in the United Arab Emirates is therefore stored outside the UAE. Switzerland holds an adequacy decision from the European Commission and appears on the ADGM and DIFC lists of adequate jurisdictions; the UAE Data Office publishes no list of its own, so the precise basis under the PDPL is still open. The privacy notice states all of that plainly, including what remains unresolved.