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Start with the person
Understand their ambitions, strengths and the barriers holding them back.
HUMAN POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY
A future built
around you.
Your ambitions. Your circumstances.
A path as individual as you are.
NCE Path is being developed to help people overcome barriers, build confidence and turn learning, contribution and achievement into meaningful progress.
In development · Seeking feedback and pilot partners
THE POSSIBILITIES START WITH A PERSON“I’d love to make something of my own.”Illustrative ambition
Potential into practiceSkills · Confidence · Opportunity
PERSONALISED SUPPORTCOMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONREAL-WORLD ACHIEVEMENT
THE IDEA AT THE HEART OF NCE
Potential is personal.
Progress should be too.
A person can have ambition and still feel stuck. Health, confidence, transport, caring responsibilities and disconnected support can make the next step hard to see.
NCE Path starts by understanding that person. It brings their goals, support and opportunities into a bespoke pathway — helping them build towards a more independent, connected and fulfilling life.
Technology to unlock human potential.
A PERSONALISED PATH FORWARD
One ambition.
Many ways forward.
Explore an illustrative journey. The steps adapt to the person; work, learning, contribution and enterprise can each be meaningful progress.
NCE PATH / JOURNEY EXPLAINER
01 / START WITH THE PERSON
What would you like your future to look like?
Explore interests, strengths and ambitions, alongside the barriers making progress difficult. A pathway begins with listening.
ILLUSTRATIVE PARTICIPANT JOURNEYAn interest in making things.
A creative person wants to explore running a small business, but lacks confidence and doesn't know where to start.
CreativityConfidenceEnterprise
SMALL STEPS. REAL POSSIBILITIES.
A journey worth investing in.
Illustrative scenes showing our proposed approach; these are not photographs of an NCE pilot.
A MENTOR BETWEEN MILESTONES
Support for the moments
between appointments.
The proposed AI companion would help turn a big goal into a manageable next step — offering preparation, encouragement and a place to practise.
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Prepare with confidenceRehearse interviews, explore ideas and practise explaining your skills.
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Find your focusBreak tasks down, build routines and try optional breathing or grounding exercises.
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Keep your support connectedRecord updates and review what is shared with a keyworker, including draft progress summaries.
Proposed features. Human support, participant choice and review of AI-generated notes remain part of the design.
NCE PathInterview practice · Concept preview
Let’s start with something you’ve already achieved. Tell me about your Community Mission.
I helped organise a beach clean. I welcomed the group and made sure everyone knew their task.
That’s a useful example of communication and teamwork. What did you do when plans changed?
EXAMPLE SKILLS EVIDENCECommunication · Teamwork · InitiativeEvidence would be checked with the activity organiser.
An illustration of the proposed experience
CONTRIBUTION OPENS DOORS
Experience today.
Possibilities tomorrow.
When someone is not ready for a job, a suitable Community Mission can be a first step. Learning and practical experience can then open new routes.
Community Missions
Supported micro community tasks — from beach cleans to gardens and improvement projects — matched to interests, access needs and readiness.
Contribute. Connect. Build confidence.A Skills Passport
Gamified milestones backed by verified achievements: what someone did, the skills they demonstrated and who can confirm it.
Make progress visible and useful.NCE Forge community hubs
Our proposed spaces for 3D printing, digital creation, practical learning and enterprise — developed with local partners as the model grows.
Discover NCE ForgeThe first test would use existing local provision. Community Missions would be voluntary, suitable and supervised.
ONE MISSION. TWO CONNECTED PARTS.
A path forward.
A place to take it.
NCE Path helps someone discover their next step. NCE Forge gives them somewhere — and someone — to take it with.
NCE Path
Understand barriers. Build a personalised pathway. Prepare with an AI mentor. Record learning and verified achievements.
Explore Human Potential TechnologyNCE Forge
Meet people. Join a Community Mission. Learn alongside a mentor. Make something and explore where it could lead.
Explore NCE ForgeOne shared purpose: unlock human potential through personalised support and real-world opportunity.
HUMAN POTENTIAL RETURN
Invest in a person.
Understand what changes.
HPR is our proposed framework for evaluating progression and programme value. Explore an editable fiscal scenario; personal and community outcomes matter alongside it.
01 / PEOPLEConfidence, skills and independence
02 / COMMUNITIESParticipation and meaningful contribution
03 / PUBLIC FINANCESAdditional revenue and expenditure changes
Explore the fiscal scenario
Editable examples for discussion. Rates are shares of all participants and refer to separate outcome groups.
The total budget stays fixed until you edit it. Values assume a full year of sustained outcomes.
ILLUSTRATIVE ANNUAL FISCAL VALUE
£860,000
Benefit expenditure reduction + additional tax
100people into work
60people increasing hours
Benefit expenditure reduction£500,000
Additional tax receipts£360,000
Total programme cost£750,000
Net fiscal value£110,000
Gross fiscal value
per £1 spent£1.15
per £1 spent£1.15
Scenario output, not an evaluated NCE result. Values may accrue to different public bodies.
Understand the assumptions and what a pilot must test
How it works
Participants × outcome rate gives the estimated people reaching each outcome, rounded to whole people. Jobs × (benefit reduction + tax), plus tax from increased hours, gives gross fiscal value. Net value deducts programme cost.
What is not yet established
The example assumes all outcomes are additional, attributable to the programme and sustained for a full year. A pilot must test these assumptions against what would happen without NCE, alongside delivery costs and quality.
What we report separately
Household income, spending, wellbeing and community contribution are not added to the fiscal total. NHS savings and other service effects need evidence. HPR evaluates the programme, never a person’s worth.
MORE TIME FOR HUMAN SUPPORT
Progress for people.
Capacity for their keyworkers.
Clearer updates and draft notes could help keyworkers prepare, follow up and focus their time. Use this separate scenario to explore the potential.
Net savings must include the time needed to review, correct and act on AI output. These are assumptions to validate, not measured savings.
ILLUSTRATIVE ANNUAL TEAM CAPACITY
11,500hours
25 hours per keyworker per week in this scenario. Released capacity is not automatically a cash saving.
WHY NCE BEGAN
It started
with listening.
Adam PowellFounder, NCE Institute
Conversations in my salon kept returning to the same thing: people had ambitions and abilities, but the help they needed was fragmented.
Small opportunities to contribute could change how someone saw themselves. Building my own digital businesses made me wonder what more people could achieve with practical support and a path built around them.
That is the idea NCE Path is being developed to test.
HELP SHAPE THE FIRST TEST
Bring your experience.
Challenge our thinking.
We’re seeking feedback from councils, employment providers, community organisations, researchers and people with lived experience, to shape a focused first test in North Yorkshire.
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Does this meet a real need?
Tell us where support breaks down and which parts would make a difference.
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What should we test first?
Help define a useful participant journey, appropriate support and evidence of progress.
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Could we explore a pilot?
Discuss a suitable cohort, local opportunities, delivery responsibilities and evaluation.
Early development stage. Features, partnerships and impact are proposed and require validation. This site does not collect participant records.