What Are Scenario Walkthroughs?
A scenario walkthrough is a step-by-step operational exercise that walks a policy or decision through a realistic workplace situation before it happens. Some scenarios sharpen into flashpoints — contested moments a policy must survive — rehearsed live inside the platform rather than encountered for the first time in reality.
What It Is
Rehearsal Before Reality
As of today, the platform holds 97 scenario walkthroughs — each one a realistic workplace situation, built from the same evidence base and case law that underpins the rest of the toolkit. A scenario might be a facilities query at a shift changeover, a colleague raising a grievance, or a customer-facing team handling a complaint in real time.
Walking through a scenario isn't a quiz — it's a rehearsal. The value is in seeing, step by step, where a policy holds and where it needs work, in a setting with no real-world consequences attached.
Inside the App
How Scenarios Work in the Platform
The Scenario Stress-Test tool walks a policy or decision through realistic scenarios step by step, and shows how it holds up against real-world personas before the situation arrives. Flashpoint, the platform's newest tool, takes the same idea live: you step into a scenario as a named cast member, everyone's identity stays hidden until the debrief, and a flashpoint — a genuinely contested moment — is where a policy's reasoning is put under the most pressure.
Both tools draw on the same scenario library and evidence base as the rest of the toolkit, so what you learn from a walkthrough traces back to real research, not an invented test case.
Why It Matters
Walk Through It Before You're Forced To
The gap this closes
A policy that has never been walked through a realistic scenario is a policy nobody has actually checked. Scenario walkthroughs move that check from "if this is ever challenged" to "before it's ever challenged" — while the stakes are still rehearsal, not reality.
That distinction matters most in the moments a board can't fully control — when a policy is formally challenged, the organisations that come through it best are the ones that had already rehearsed the moment, not the ones improvising a response for the first time under pressure.
Who It's For
Who Uses Scenario Walkthroughs
Managers rehearsing a difficult conversation before it happens, HR and EDI leads pressure-testing a policy ahead of sign-off, and boards who want to see a decision survive a realistic flashpoint before it meets a real one.
Access scales with your plan: Discover includes 5 sample scenarios free, forever — start free — Practitioner and Professional subscriptions unlock the full scenario library online, and Enterprise extends this across a team — talk to us about Enterprise. See the full feature comparison.