For government and councils

Proven at state scale.
Now for your workforce.

Compono already runs public-safety licensing for five Australian state governments through Assure, our competency management software. This page is about the rest of the platform: hiring, culture and capability for the people inside your agency or council. Our proof is competency and licensing, not public-sector recruitment. The offer is one platform your procurement team can already verify.

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Compono Assure · Competency framework

Competency frameworkSite supervisor

Site safety induction

Incident response

Working at heights

Plant operation

Contractor management

Quality audits

First aid

Team leadership

WHWorking at heightsVerified competency record1Current

Issued14 Mar 2026

Renewal due14 Mar 2028

Assessed byR. Nolan

Audit trail kept

The framework, with the evidence attached

How it shows up for government and councils

Public sector staff reviewing a printed roster together at a desk

The role has been advertised twice and is still open

Engineers, planners, building surveyors and data roles go to the private sector faster and for more money. The position stays vacant, the work moves to whoever is left, and the next recruitment round starts from the same ad.

A national report drawing on 280 councils found 83% reporting persistent vacancies, with shortages worst in engineering, planning and building surveying.

Source: Australian Local Government Association, national workforce report

Merit has to be documented, and the documentation is manual

A selection panel has to show the process was applied fairly to every eligible candidate and properly recorded. In practice that is a shared spreadsheet and a report written from memory after the fact.

A merit-based selection process must be applied fairly to each eligible candidate and appropriately documented, which is exactly the part that lives outside the system today.

Source: Australian Public Service Commission, Guide on Merit in the APS

The census runs every year and the number barely moves

Everyone fills in the survey, the results are published, an action plan follows, and the same teams report the same problems next year. The survey measures sentiment well and says very little about how the work actually gets done.

151,771 employees responded to the 2025 APS Employee Census, an 81% response rate. Getting people to answer has never been the hard part.

Source: Australian Public Service Commission, APS Employee Census 2025

The capability framework lives in a PDF

There is a framework. It sits in a PDF, it was written for a workforce plan, and nothing in your day-to-day systems knows it exists. Ask which capabilities your directorate is short of and nobody can answer.

Public administration and safety had one of the lowest job mobility rates in the country at 4.4% in the year to February 2026, so capability is built in place or it is not built at all.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Job Mobility, February 2026

Everything a good system tracks.
And what only Compono finds.

Compono Assure

Competency management software your agency may already be running

Like any competency softwareCertificates, licences and renewal dates on the record
And what only Compono findsWhether the person can perform to the standard

Assure keeps the credential record a records system keeps, with renewal dates against the person. It also holds the framework, assesses against it and issues the credential, with item-level data and audit trails behind every result. It is the product behind driver and motorcycle licensing in five states, and the same engine runs an internal capability program for your own staff.

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Compono Develop

A learning management system (LMS) that turns the framework into learning

Like any LMSAssignment by directorate, attendance and completions
And what only Compono findsThe capability your directorate is short of

Develop assigns learning by role, directorate or certification requirement, handles recertification before it lapses, and reports progress on a schedule to the people who have to sign it off. Bring your own content or start with the library. Because assessment sits inside the pathway, the report names the capability your directorate is short of as well as the attendance it recorded.

See how Compono Develop works

Compono Hire

An applicant tracking system (ATS) that records the reasoning behind the process

Like any ATSApplications, panel stages and the selection record
And what only Compono findsThe reasoning behind the ranking, recorded as you go

Hire runs the recruitment process and keeps the selection record any government recruitment system has to keep. It also ranks applicants against the role, the team and the culture of the directorate, with the weighting you set and the evidence visible to the panel. The selection record becomes a by-product of doing the assessment rather than a report written afterwards.

See how Compono Hire works

Compono Engage

An employee engagement platform that says what to fix

Like any engagement platformCensus-style survey, scores and response rates
And what only Compono findsThe behaviour underneath the census score

Engage runs the census-style survey and reports the score, the way your current instrument does. It also measures culture across 12 validated dimensions, current against what your people say the work needs, and cuts the result by division, location, job level and tenure. That gives a directorate something to act on as well as a score to explain.

See how Compono Engage works

Wherever you operate

What we will put in writing, and what we will not claim on a web page.

What it is	Australia and New Zealand	Everywhere else
Where your data sits	Built and hosted in Australia and New Zealand	Data is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits
Security and quality certifications	ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, with single sign-on and role-based permissions	Both are international standards, so the certificates travel to your assessor
Procurement	Talk to us about procurement. Tell us the panel or pathway you have to buy through and we will tell you straight whether we are on it	The same answer applies to a framework agreement in another jurisdiction
Licences and registrations	High risk work licences, Working with Children Checks and professional registrations recorded as competencies with expiry dates	A DBS check in the United Kingdom, or a state licence in the United States, recorded the same way

One platform, one engine.

Hire, Engage, Develop and Assure share the same validated behavioural science engine, so what you learn about people in one product informs the next. People decisions backed by behavioural science and AI.

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Compono Hire

A. Okafor, senior account manager

Culture Fit91%

Job Fit86%

88% overall fit

Compono Engage

Delivery team, 16 of 16 responded

InnovativeRisk Averse

ResponsivePlanned

CurrentDesired2 of 12 shown

3 of 12 dimensions misaligned

Compono Develop

Site supervisor, 42 people in the role

Safety leadership88%

Coaching others44%

68% capability held

Compono Assure

Working at heights, 38 people hold it

Verified competency recordCurrent

Renewal due 14 Mar 2028

Four products, one behavioural science engine.

Common questions

Yes. Compono Assure powers driver and motorcycle licensing across five Australian states, carrying more than 3.5 million enrolments and over 400,000 assessments a week. That work is competency assurance and credentialling. Hiring your own staff on Compono Hire is the newer conversation.

We will not claim a panel listing on a web page. Tell us the jurisdiction and the pathway you are required to use, and we will confirm in writing whether we are on it or how we can be. Several agencies already contract with us directly.

In Australia and New Zealand, and the platform is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, with single sign-on and role-based permissions. If you have a data residency or security clause to satisfy, send it to us and we will answer it clause by clause.

Yes. Competency management software is where Compono started, so implement your framework in Assure as it stands, or align it to Compono's eight types of work that high-performing teams cover. Either way roles, competencies and proficiency levels connect to learning and assessment, so the framework becomes a live system.

It produces it as you go. Every applicant is assessed against the same role criteria with the weighting set in advance, ranked with the reasoning visible to the panel, and the record sits with the job. That is the documentation a merit process requires.

From 100 to 500 people, one product runs circa $7k to $13k AUD a year depending on the band, and a second product comes down by about 30%. Assure is quoted per project because the framework and integrations set the work.

The licensing work is public-facing: education, assessment and credentials for citizens at volume. This is internal: hiring your own people, reading your own culture, building your own capability and proving it. Same platform, same engine, different population.

Head office is Brisbane, with offices in Christchurch, London and New York. Data is hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever your team sits, and the platform is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, with single sign-on and role-based permissions. Five Australian state governments already run licensing programs on it.

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