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Know where your team stands.
Bench turns competency frameworks into structured staff evaluations — define what each role needs, assess your people against it, and close the gaps with targeted training.
From the team behind Drills and Desk.
The problem
Staff evaluation in the public sector is mostly guesswork.
No shared standard
Appraisals are ad-hoc and inconsistent — there is no agreed definition of what good looks like for each role.
Training misses the mark
Development spend is disconnected from the capability gaps that actually hold the team back.
Capability is invisible
Who can do what, and to what level, lives in scattered spreadsheets — and walks out the door when people leave.
What Bench does
A clear, defensible picture of your team's capability.
Competency library
Build skills with leveled descriptors, group them into reusable blocks, and compose them into roles — so similar positions share the same definitions.
Structured reviews
Rate people against each role's required level, with a full rating history across review cycles.
Training plans from gaps
Turn the gap between current and required levels into a focused development plan, automatically.
Ready-made competency banks
Start from a ready-made treasury-management set, draw from large standardized banks — a PFM-oriented model and the extensive US federal framework — or build your own.
How it works
Three steps, one source of truth.
- 01
Define
Set the competencies each role needs — from a ready-made bank or your own.
- 02
Evaluate
Run structured reviews and rate staff against their role's requirements.
- 03
Act
Generate training plans from the gaps and track progress across review cycles.
Who it's for
Built for public-sector teams.
Bench fits any team that runs structured staff evaluations — and it speaks the language of public finance first.
Finance & PFM teams
Finance ministries, treasuries, audit offices, and PFM units.
Any public-sector team
HR units, line agencies, and donor-funded programmes running competency-based evaluation.
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