CPD is evidence. Not attendance.
Structured CPD, technical uplift across the firm, and alignment to sector standards for accounting, legal, engineering, and consulting practices. One framework. Multiple bodies. Evidence per practitioner.
Practice quality reviews audit backwards from the evidence.
Professional body inspections, practice quality reviews, and internal partner committees ask the same question in different words. How do we know practitioners at this grade, in this practice, on this engagement, were competent to perform the work? A CPD hours register does not answer that question. A framework, an assessment record, and a chain of decisions about progression in grade do.
The Foundry treats professional standards, sector guidance, and firm methodology as sources of structural obligation. Frameworks encode what practitioners at each grade must know, apply, and demonstrate. Programs generate to fit. Evidence accumulates per practitioner, not per training event.
Technical discipline across the firm, evidenced.
CPD architecture
CPD programs structured to professional body expectations (state boards of accountancy, ICAEW, CA ANZ, bar associations and law societies, engineering bodies) with hours, categories, and outcome mapping evidenced per practitioner.
Technical uplift across the firm
New methodology, new standard, or new regulation rolled out consistently across offices and grades. One framework, variants appropriate to role, evidence of coverage per practice group.
Alignment to sector standards
Alignment to sector standards (auditing standards, ethical rulings, code of conduct, technical guidelines) encoded at clause level and evidenced through instruction and assessment.
Training on client obligations
For engagements requiring evidence that staff are trained to a client's sector obligations, the framework can encode requirements specific to the client and export evidence tied to the engagement.
Progression by grade
Technical competency mapped to grade (analyst, senior, manager, partner) with progression thresholds defined at the framework level, not left to individual reviewer discretion.
Evidence for practice quality
For practice quality reviews and inspections by professional bodies, coverage, verification, and CPD evidence export in a form ready for external review, not manufactured after the notice arrives.
From standard to evidence of progression by grade.
Structure precedes instruction. Only once your professional standards lead has approved the framework does the platform generate the material and CPD evidence that satisfies it.
Interpret the standard
Professional body CPD expectations, sector standards, ethical rulings, and internal methodology are ingested and parsed at clause level.
Structure by role and grade
Competencies and CPD obligations are tagged to specific practice roles and grades. Progression thresholds are defined per grade, not per module.
Construct the framework
A technical framework for the whole firm is proposed. Your professional standards lead reviews and approves before instruction, verification, and CPD evidence are generated.
Evidence per practitioner
CPD records, technical uplift coverage, and progression evidence by grade are exportable per practitioner, per practice group, and per engagement.
Evidence a practice quality reviewer will accept without follow up.
Frameworks aligned to CPD from professional bodies, sector standards, and firm methodology. Programs that satisfy them, per grade, per practice, per office. Verification that survives external inspection. CPD evidence per practitioner ready for annual reporting to the professional body.
When the practice quality reviewer arrives, the artifact you present is a framework, not a defense reconstructed from an LMS.
How professional services engagements work, in detail.
Where this fits in the system.
See your technical model for the whole firm take shape.
Send us your methodology, a technical guideline, or a CPD obligation your practitioners are accountable for. In 45 minutes on your material, you leave with the framework the Foundry produces.
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