Enhanced Competency Management System for Project Teams

Your team's capability is real.
Calibrate makes it visible.

Calibrate is a professional-grade competency management system built on the IPP framework. Validated capability profiles, CPD compliance, evidence portfolios, and structured development tools for every project manager in your organisation. One platform. One professional standard. Backed by the Institute of Project Professionals.

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The honest problem

Most organisations manage project capability by instinct and assumption.

You know your team is good. You just cannot prove it, see where the gaps are, or point to anything structured when the board asks.

You cannot see what your team can actually do

Job titles and years of experience tell you almost nothing about genuine capability. When a complex programme lands, you are guessing who can lead it. Calibrate gives each person a validated competency profile across eight structured areas. Not self-reported. Evidence reviewed by a designated reviewer inside your organisation.

Development conversations happen without data

A line manager sits down for a one-to-one with a general sense that someone is doing well or needs to step up. There is no shared reference point, no structured view of where they stand, no agreed basis for what good looks like at the next level. Calibrate gives the manager a precise picture before they walk in the room.

When people move, their capability record disappears

Someone transfers to a different team or a new line manager. Everything known about their development resets. Their new manager starts from scratch. When someone moves within your organisation, or arrives from outside, their verified Calibrate record is already there from day one. No handover notes. No re-assessment.

For the organisation

What Calibrate does for the people running the team.

These are the capabilities your admin, team leads and line managers have in the platform from day one.

Visibility

Team competency heat map, validated not self-assessed

See your team's confirmed competency levels across all eight IPP framework areas in a single dashboard. Only validated evidence counts. Self-assessed levels are visible but clearly distinguished. You see the real picture, not what people think about themselves. Filterable by individual, area, and role benchmark.

Governance

Internal reviewer workflows, built in

You nominate reviewers within your organisation. When a team member submits evidence for a competency area, it goes into the reviewer's queue. Reviewers confirm or return the submission with notes. No external sign-off, no email chains. The validation chain lives inside Calibrate and is fully auditable.

Compliance

CPD across the workforce, categorised and current

Every CPD hour logged, categorised, and visible to the admin. You can see who is on track for the year and who is falling behind, whether or not they hold IPP membership. Compliance data is available without chasing anyone. Your team logs it for their own development, not to satisfy an audit.

Mobility

Capability records that follow people across your organisation

When someone moves to a new team, a new region, or a new line manager, their verified competency profile moves with them. The incoming manager can see immediately what has been validated, what is in progress, and where the gaps are. This works for internal moves and for new joiners arriving from outside.

Benchmarking

Role benchmarks built into the framework

Calibrate includes default role profiles from Assistant PM through Programme Director, showing the expected proficiency level at each career stage across all eight areas. Your team's validated levels are compared against the benchmark for their current role. Gap analysis is automatic, not a separate exercise you have to run.

Administration

Seat management, org structure, import and export

Add and remove users, assign reviewer roles, structure the team by department and cost centre. Seat utilisation visible in real time. Bulk import for larger teams. Export structured competency and CPD data for senior leadership reporting or HR system inputs. When someone leaves, releasing their seat is a single action.

For the individual

What your team members get from being on Calibrate.

A seat is not just a management tool. It is something genuinely useful to the person using it, which is why they engage with it rather than tolerate it.

Credibility

A verified record of what they can actually do

Not a CV. Not a job title. A structured, evidence-backed competency profile across eight professional areas, validated by a real reviewer inside their organisation. Something they can point to when going for their next role, internally or externally.

Portability

A profile that moves with them across roles and employers

When someone transfers internally, their new manager inherits a verified record from day one. When they leave your organisation, the profile goes with them. When they join their next employer, they arrive with evidence already in place. Their professional record is theirs to keep, not yours to delete.

Progression

A direct path to IPP professional membership

Calibrate is built on the IPP Competency Framework. A team member developing their profile is simultaneously building the evidence base for Associate, Member, or Fellow membership, if they choose to pursue it. The work is the same. Nothing needs to be duplicated.

Development

CPD that builds a career record, not just a compliance box

Logging CPD hours against structured categories is more useful than a generic total. Team members see their own progress, understand what counts toward their obligations, and build a record that persists across employers throughout their career.

Visibility

A shareable public profile they control

Team members can choose to make their competency summary publicly accessible via a short profile link. Area-level validated levels, IPP designation if they hold one, CPD on-track status. No evidence detail, no employer history. Something to share with a recruiter or client.

Ecosystem

One account across the whole professional platform

The same login works across Calibrate, the Activate learning platform, and IPP membership. If a team member is already on Activate or holds IPP membership, they are already in. Their learning activity, qualifications and competency profile live in the same place.

The wider ecosystem

Calibrate is part of something bigger. That matters.

Calibrate is built on the IPP Competency Framework, the professional standard used by the Institute of Project Professionals for qualification and membership. That means every competency level your team builds in Calibrate maps directly to the criteria for recognised professional membership.

Activate is IPP's structured learning platform. When a team member passes an Activate qualification, their exam topic scores automatically pre-seed their Calibrate competency profile at the appropriate level. They do not start from scratch after a qualification. The two systems talk to each other directly.

Activate learning access is a separate product, not included in a Calibrate seat licence. But if you want to pair structured qualifications with the CMS, including the FCPM, PCPM, or Award pathways, we can put together a package for your organisation.

Ask about Activate licences

How the three connect

Calibrate CMS included in seat

Competency tracking, CPD compliance, evidence portfolios, reviewer workflows, team reporting and admin. Everything on this page.

Activate learning separate licence

Award, Foundation, and Practitioner qualification pathways. Exam scores on pass automatically seed the Calibrate competency profile. Talk to us about team licences.

IPP membership individual

Candidate, Associate, Member, Fellow. Belongs to the individual, not the employer. The Calibrate profile is the evidence base. Post-nominals awarded by IPP.

How it works

Live in a day. No implementation project.

No data migration, no training programme, no onboarding consultant. The framework is already there. Fill in a form and your account is live in seconds.

Start your 30-day trial

Name, email, organisation. Your account is provisioned immediately with 5 seats. No card required.

Invite your team

Share your org link. Team members sign in with their existing IPP or Activate account, or create one free. Existing profiles carry across automatically.

Team builds their evidence

Each person maps their competency across the eight areas and uploads supporting project evidence. They work through it at their own pace.

You review, report, develop

Reviewers work through the validation queue. You see confirmed competency levels, CPD compliance and gap data in the team report.

Pricing

One tool. The same platform at every tier. Less per person as your team grows.

There are no feature differences between Starter and Enterprise. Every tier gets everything. The only thing that changes is the price per seat as headcount increases, plus the level of support and onboarding we provide. A 30-day free trial is included in every plan.

Starter

1 to 10 seats

£49 /seat/yr

10 seats = £490/yr

Full competency framework and evidence tools

CPD tracking and compliance dashboard

Reviewer workflows and validation queue

Team heat map and gap analysis

Admin panel and seat management

Shareable public profiles

Email support

Try it with your team. Thirty days. No card.

Five seats, the full platform, one month to see whether it changes how you manage capability. Subscribe in two minutes if you want to continue. If not, your team members keep their individual profiles permanently.

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Questions about Activate licences or Enterprise pricing? Email hello@ipp.pro and you will get a real response.

Your team's capability is real. Calibrate makes it visible.