Everyone passes the annual module. The regulator now asks a harder question: did anyone's judgment change? We build compliance training as decisions with consequences. An AML alert, a fair-housing question mid-showing, a gift that smells wrong. Practiced until the right call is the fast one, and measured at the decision level.
Compliance training has a shape everyone recognizes. A module goes out in January. Slides, a voiceover nobody finishes, ten questions with obvious answers. By February the completion report reads 100% and the file is ready for the auditor.
Then a wire goes out that shouldn't have, or the deal that smelled wrong closes anyway. The gap was never coverage; everyone completed the course. Nobody practiced the call they actually had to make.
The Justice Department tells prosecutors exactly what to ask about a company's compliance training. Two of the questions, word for word:
U.S. Department of Justice, Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (updated Sept 2024)"How has the company measured the effectiveness of the training?"
"Has the company evaluated the extent to which the training has an impact on employee behavior or operations?"
A completion log can't answer either question. A simulation can. When training is a series of decisions, every decision is a data point: who escalated, who waived, who missed the same red flag twice. That is evidence of effectiveness, in the regulator's own terms.
We rebuild your compliance topics as scenarios with stakes. Players work a case, watch the consequences of the call they made, then run it again until the right instinct is the fast one. Built around your policies and your regulator, not a generic rulebook.
Compliance looks different in every industry we build for. These are the threads already mapped across our industry pages, from suspicious-activity calls to export-control judgment, each with the scenarios that train it.
Alert triage, suspicious-activity calls, and the write-up that has to survive a file review. The Desk and Compliance Day train the investigation itself, built with bank compliance teams in mind.
AML training for banking →Steering, screening language, the showing that goes sideways with a testers' complaint behind it. The same judgment layer covers fair lending on the banking side.
Fair housing training for brokerages →Suitability, best-interest standards, and disclosure conversations that hold up in an audit. Built around the model regulations your producers actually answer to.
Producer compliance training →Customer-data handling on the front line, partner vetting, and the anti-bribery basics field teams never get in context. The 2024 FCC enforcement round started exactly here.
CPNI compliance training for telecom →The acceptance decision at the cargo counter, trained against the IATA DGR. For defense and dual-use programs we build export-control judgment the same way: as the call an engineer makes before a file leaves the building, not a slide about ITAR.
Dangerous goods training in aviation →
GU-03 · THE DESK
Analysts work flagged transactions across six authentic terminals, then defend the verdict in writing, scored on whether an examiner would call the reasoning defensible. The slide version of AML training asks what a red flag is. The Desk asks whether your write-up survives the file review.
Play The Desk →
GU-05 · COMPLIANCE DAY
You don't get a manual. You get a supervisor and a caseload. A new analyst gets the bank's full investigation toolkit: document forensics, ownership graphs, crypto tracing, transaction timelines. Then a five-case live shift where every Approve, Escalate, or Reject is graded on whether the reasoning would hold up.
Play Compliance Day →Both demos are banking-flavored because that's where we started. The same engine builds fair-housing scenarios for brokerages, disclosure conversations for producers, and export-control calls for engineers, all around your policies.
Regulatory frameworks ask for effective training, not a specific format. The DOJ's evaluation guidance asks how you measured effectiveness and whether training changed behavior, and a simulation produces what a slide course can't: decision-level records showing who can apply the policy under pressure. We map every scenario to your specific obligations, and your compliance team approves content before it ships. Where formal training-hour credit matters, rules vary by regulator, so we build within whatever your counsel signs off on.
Discovery starts with your documents: the policy manual, the procedures, past exam findings, and anonymized incidents your team actually dealt with. Your subject-matter experts co-design the scenarios, so the gray areas are your gray areas rather than generic ones. Names, systems, and screens match what your people use every day. Legal and compliance review every scenario and every scored answer before launch, and the build is versioned, so a policy change becomes a content update instead of a rebuild.
Eight to sixteen weeks from first call to deployed training, depending on scope and platforms. A single-scenario pilot lands faster and is how most teams start: one high-risk topic, one cohort, and real data on whether the format works for your people before any wider rollout.
Completion is the floor, and it's recorded. What matters is what gets measured above it. Every decision in a scenario is logged, so you can see escalation rates and repeated misses on the same red flag, attempt over attempt. That's the difference between reporting seat time and reporting effectiveness, which is the question regulators now ask. Reports break out by team, role, and scenario.
Yes. Builds ship as SCORM or xAPI packages for your LMS, with SSO so nobody manages a second login. Completion and score data land in your existing training records, and richer decision data can flow to a dashboard your compliance team owns. No LMS? The web build runs standalone and we handle reporting from our side.
Four stages. Typically 8 to 16 weeks from first call to deployed training, and your compliance team signs off on every scenario before it ships.
We map your obligations, policies, exam findings, and the incidents that actually happened, with your compliance and training teams in the room.
Game designers co-create scenarios with your SMEs. Legal and compliance review gates every scenario and every scored answer.
Custom art, systems, and scenarios crafted in-studio for the platforms you need: web and LMS, mobile, VR, or the classroom.
LMS and SSO integration, decision-level effectiveness data your audit file can cite, and content updates as your policies change.
Book a 30-minute demo. We'll show you The Desk and Compliance Day, talk through your obligations and the incidents that shaped them, and sketch what a custom build or pilot looks like for your team. No pressure.
Or email braeden@gosuacademy.com directly.