How the return is calculated.
Because the number has to survive the meeting.
An internship return is easy to assert and hard to defend. Ours is not built on offers you expect to make, retention you hope for, or brand benefit.
Verified value, built intern by intern, task by task, gain by gain.
Verified value and strategic value are never mixed
Two columns, two totals. One will not be taken for the other.
Programme results cannot be rewritten
Submissions, reviews, KPI measurements, audit events and ROI snapshots are append-only — by construction, not by policy. What an intern did is not editable after the fact, by anyone, including the operator.
Every figure carries its engine version
A report names the methodology version that produced it. A correction is a new version, not an edit.
You can see how the arithmetic behaves
Every new account opens with two fully-worked example programmes — one running, one finished — badged with sample data.
What is counted, and what deliberately is not.
| Line | Status |
|---|---|
| Intern Productivity | Verified |
| CSR Impact | Verified |
| Recruiting cost avoided | Strategic |
| Retention value | Strategic |
| Costs | Subtracted |
| Cost Savings | Added |
Four derived figures
- Break-even
- Reported as a month number, not a date range.
- KPI calculation
- It is achieved as the weighted share of KPIs on target.
- Task weights
- Proportional to effort, always totalling exactly 100%.
- Company ROIComing soon
- To show in which month it is the highest.
Six Bands
- 0%progressing
- 20%promising
- 40%really good
- 60%strong — the example above
- 80%excellent
- 100%exceeding expectations
Below 0%: a negative return.
Bands are read as ‘and above’.
A published version is frozen
Every report records the engine version that produced it and can never be edited. Correcting the method means publishing a new version, so an earlier report keeps meaning what it meant.
This page is the summary
The specification is not published here. Customers get the whole of it where it is useful: the report states the basis of every figure it prints, names the engine version that produced it, and lists the inputs it was given — so the number can be audited by the people who have to stand behind it.
A dashboard view first, a document of record second.
Once a report is generated, it captures the figures, the inputs they were calculated from and the engine version that produced them. A report can be printed, or shared by a link that expires after 7, 30 or 90 days; a shared link leaves the inputs out.
Only a fingerprint of a share link is stored, so a link cannot be recovered from the database — it can only be replaced.2
2 If a shared link should no longer work, revoke it and issue a new one. Nobody — including the operator — can retrieve the original URL from storage.
Questions a sceptic asks first
Why is the return lower than other tools would give?
It excludes everything that has not happened. For example, savings on recruiting and retention are shown beside the verified return as strategic value. These are real considerations.
Where does the Emiratisation figure come from?
From a dated rate table — AED 9,000 per month in 2026, rising by roughly AED 1,000 a year — applied for each Emirati intern for each month of the internship. Whether an intern offsets a quota position is for your company to judge; please verify the figure against current MoHRE guidance.
Can a supervisor see other supervisors' interns?
No. A supervisor sees their own interns and their own review queue. The company admin sees the whole programme. Separate organisations under one owner see nothing of each other.
We already ran a programme. Can we report on it now?
Yes, but only work reviewed inside InternROI and ROI calculations count. A programme that ran earlier can be entered, but its past work has no review record here, so it adds nothing to the verified return.
Where is our data held?
In Switzerland (Supabase, eu-central-2), so personal data about people in the UAE is stored outside the UAE. Switzerland is recognised as adequate by the European Commission, ADGM and DIFC; the exact basis under the UAE’s PDPL is still open, and the privacy notice says so.