Introduction
EPISODICICCE is a temporary workforce engagement and payment formation, transaction and evidence platform that exists to create better outcomes across the temporary labour market: stronger employment standards, more reliable tax and payroll compliance, lower supply-chain risk, clearer social value evidence, sustained workforce flexibility and greater commercial success for the organisations that participate.
We believe many of the market’s persistent problems exist because temporary labour operates without the reliable transactional data on which most modern markets depend. This makes the market unnecessarily complex, heavily scrutinised, risk-laden, vulnerable to abuse and capable of producing poor ethical outcomes whilst also restricting commercial success for buyers and contractors.
Managing flexible workforces should not be so difficult, and we exist to change that.
Our ICCE platform is a multi-party operating system for supply-chain temporary labour activity, providing a shared, system-enforced trust layer through which labour engagements and payments are formed, transacted, attributed, evidenced and reported.
While the system manages engagement formation, activity governance, payroll processing, payment instruction and evidential reporting, it has been deliberately designed not to disrupt the structure of the existing market or absorb the commercial roles of its participants. Instead, ICCE is the enabling infrastructure platform beneath the process: the technology, foundation and operating kit that supply chains plug-into and build upon.
By providing the shared environment for contractors, agencies and workers to communicate and enage with one another, we offer a small change with vast implications: reducing exposure across the labour chain, strengthening confidence between buyers, contractors, agencies and workers, and making governance, assurance and transparency a default system fact rather than a costly, fragmented and retrospective administrative obligation.
The purpose is not to fill a gap in the market. It is to restructure, from the inside out, how the market functions and interacts; aligning commercial outcomes with regulatory and social objectives, and ending the persistent trade-off between risk appetite and commercial advantage.
One system.
For.Every.One.
Transactional Truth
At its core, ICCE exists to create, control and evidence temporary labour transactions. As activity progresses through its operational lifecycle, engagement terms, assignment conditions, working activity, payment instructions, funding events, supporting evidence and worker-related data points are linked within a single, persistent transaction record. The resulting dataset provides the authoritative basis for transparency, agreed remuneration, working time, deductions, payment execution, contractual conditions and fair worker outcomes.
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Authorised Data Distribution
More than 1,000 data points are captured and evidenced for each transaction. Relevant data is then distributed to authorised stakeholders through role-based access controls, ensuring that each participant receives the information appropriate to its function, permissions and legitimate purpose. This creates a consistent evidential view across workers, agencies, engagers, funders, insurers, framework operators and regulators, reducing reliance on fragmented records, duplicated reporting and independently reconstructed data.
Record Integrity
The integrity of the transaction record is derived from the manner in which the data is created and validated. Multiple parties contribute to the record through their direct interaction with the system, meaning that the dataset is formed through distributed participation rather than retrospective submission by a single source. System-enforced gates, mandatory fields, validation rules and permitted process states constrain activity within defined parameters, improving accuracy and consistency while limiting deviation from expected behaviour. Validation is applied at each material lifecycle event so that the evidential state of the transaction develops continuously.
Real-Time Processing
Because the record is generated and updated as activity occurs, authorised stakeholders can access relevant transaction data in near real time. This materially reduces the requirement for retrospective audit, periodic reporting, manual reconciliation and multi-stage assurance across labour supply chains. Instead of relying on information that is assembled and interpreted after the event, stakeholders can review evidenced activity as it progresses and intervene where necessary.
Performance Improvement
Once transaction-level data is established as an authoritative source of truth, it can support a material change in standards, controls and outcomes across the market. Funders, insurers, regulators, contractors, framework operators, agencies and workers can operate from consistent, accurate and attributable information rather than estimates, predictions, summaries or reconstructed records. This creates a stronger basis for automated controls, risk assessment, regulatory oversight, commercial decision-making, worker protection and market-wide performance improvement.
Authorised Data Distribution
More than 1,000 data points are captured and evidenced for each transaction. Relevant data is then distributed to authorised stakeholders through role-based access controls, ensuring that each participant receives the information appropriate to its function, permissions and legitimate purpose. This creates a consistent evidential view across workers, agencies, engagers, funders, insurers, framework operators and regulators, reducing reliance on fragmented records, duplicated reporting and independently reconstructed data.
Record Integrity
The integrity of the transaction record is derived from the manner in which the data is created and validated. Multiple parties contribute to the record through their direct interaction with the system, meaning that the dataset is formed through distributed participation rather than retrospective submission by a single source. System-enforced gates, mandatory fields, validation rules and permitted process states constrain activity within defined parameters, improving accuracy and consistency while limiting deviation from expected behaviour. Validation is applied at each material lifecycle event so that the evidential state of the transaction develops continuously.
Real-Time Processing
Because the record is generated and updated as activity occurs, authorised stakeholders can access relevant transaction data in near real time. This materially reduces the requirement for retrospective audit, periodic reporting, manual reconciliation and multi-stage assurance across labour supply chains. Instead of relying on information that is assembled and interpreted after the event, stakeholders can review evidenced activity as it progresses and intervene where necessary.
Performance Improvement
Once transaction-level data is established as an authoritative source of truth, it can support a material change in standards, controls and outcomes across the market. Funders, insurers, regulators, contractors, framework operators, agencies and workers can operate from consistent, accurate and attributable information rather than estimates, predictions, summaries or reconstructed records. This creates a stronger basis for automated controls, risk assessment, regulatory oversight, commercial decision-making, worker protection and market-wide performance improvement.
Project & Framework Attribution
Much of the responsibility for understanding, governing and evidencing temporary labour activity sits with upper-chain parties such as buyers, framework operators, contractors and end clients. Yet the most important information is usually created much further down the supply chain through agencies, payroll routes, workers and operational delivery.
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Responsibility and Data Origin
This separation between where obligations sit and where transaction data originates makes it difficult to establish a clear and defensible view of employment status, tax treatment, pay transparency, worker conditions and social outcomes.
Loss of Detail and Attribution
The problem is intensified by the number of commercial and operational layers positioned between those two points. Information is passed upwards through timesheets, supplier declarations, payroll summaries, invoices, assurance exercises and periodic reports, often losing detail, context and attribution along the way.
By the time upper-chain parties receive it, the underlying labour activity may have been aggregated, reformatted or reconstructed. It becomes harder to determine precisely who worked, where and when they worked, the terms under which they were engaged, how remuneration was calculated, which deductions were applied, how payment was executed and what worker, social and commercial outcomes arose.
Attribution by Design
ICCE resolves this mismatch through a simple structural rule: all engagement, treatment, payment and social-impact data is attributed to a defined project, framework, programme or package of works by design.
Each worker-level transaction is connected not only to the agency responsible for fulfilment, but also to the relevant buyer, contractor, client, project and wider delivery context. This makes granular information available to the parties carrying the corresponding governance, assurance and reporting responsibilities, moving visibility from aggregated weekly invoices to attributable transaction-level records.
Governed ICCE Frameworks
Buyers, framework operators and contractors interact with ICCE to create governed ICCE Frameworks and invite approved agencies to participate. Agencies then communicate with workers, coordinate requirements and schedule activity within those Frameworks.
Each resulting engagement is automatically attributed to the correct project, programme or works package. Upper-chain parties gain a near-real-time view of labour activity as it develops, reducing reliance on retrospective assessment, manual assurance and after-the-event audit.
Broader Participation with Control
Every agency and worker admitted to ICCE undergoes structured onboarding and verification, while every transaction is constrained by the rules of the platform. Contractors are therefore less dependent on tightly restricted preferred supplier lists as their primary control mechanism.
Participation can be widened to additional agencies with greater confidence that each organisation has met the required entry standards and that the activity it creates will remain within defined operational, evidential and commercial boundaries. This enables broader market access without sacrificing control while keeping labour outcomes aligned with contractor obligations, governance standards and commercial objectives.
Responsibility and Data Origin
This separation between where obligations sit and where transaction data originates makes it difficult to establish a clear and defensible view of employment status, tax treatment, pay transparency, worker conditions and social outcomes.
Loss of Detail and Attribution
The problem is intensified by the number of commercial and operational layers positioned between those two points. Information is passed upwards through timesheets, supplier declarations, payroll summaries, invoices, assurance exercises and periodic reports, often losing detail, context and attribution along the way.
By the time upper-chain parties receive it, the underlying labour activity may have been aggregated, reformatted or reconstructed. It becomes harder to determine precisely who worked, where and when they worked, the terms under which they were engaged, how remuneration was calculated, which deductions were applied, how payment was executed and what worker, social and commercial outcomes arose.
Attribution by Design
ICCE resolves this mismatch through a simple structural rule: all engagement, treatment, payment and social-impact data is attributed to a defined project, framework, programme or package of works by design.
Each worker-level transaction is connected not only to the agency responsible for fulfilment, but also to the relevant buyer, contractor, client, project and wider delivery context. This makes granular information available to the parties carrying the corresponding governance, assurance and reporting responsibilities, moving visibility from aggregated weekly invoices to attributable transaction-level records.
Governed ICCE Frameworks
Buyers, framework operators and contractors interact with ICCE to create governed ICCE Frameworks and invite approved agencies to participate. Agencies then communicate with workers, coordinate requirements and schedule activity within those Frameworks.
Each resulting engagement is automatically attributed to the correct project, programme or works package. Upper-chain parties gain a near-real-time view of labour activity as it develops, reducing reliance on retrospective assessment, manual assurance and after-the-event audit.
Broader Participation with Control
Every agency and worker admitted to ICCE undergoes structured onboarding and verification, while every transaction is constrained by the rules of the platform. Contractors are therefore less dependent on tightly restricted preferred supplier lists as their primary control mechanism.
Participation can be widened to additional agencies with greater confidence that each organisation has met the required entry standards and that the activity it creates will remain within defined operational, evidential and commercial boundaries. This enables broader market access without sacrificing control while keeping labour outcomes aligned with contractor obligations, governance standards and commercial objectives.
Early Access
ICCE is moving through structured development, with release targeted for 2027. Between now and launch, Episodic will seek consultation, alignment and support from stakeholders and investors who share the ambition to drive material positive change across temporary labour. Their participation will help ensure that the system remains commercially relevant, operationally practical and capable of improving outcomes for the organisations and workers who depend on the market.
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Development Through Defined Stages
As a project of significant scale, each development stage represents an important increase in the depth, scope and maturity of both the system and the wider venture. New capabilities, controls and operating pathways are introduced progressively, while technical development is supported by continued research, stakeholder review, commercial validation and preparation for responsible market adoption.
Stakeholder Consultation and Alignment
Episodic is seeking stakeholders who can test the model against real operating requirements, assess its compatibility with existing commercial and governance processes, and contribute informed feedback on implementation, controls and outcomes. Relevant participants may include buyers, framework operators, contractors, agencies, workers, funders, insurers, regulators, auditors and specialist advisers with a direct interest in improving temporary labour markets.
Investment and Strategic Support
Episodic is also seeking investors who recognise the long-term value of trusted market infrastructure, understand the requirements of staged technology and venture development, and can contribute strategic experience, sector relationships or governance capability alongside capital. The priority is to engage parties whose interests are aligned with building a durable system capable of generating significant commercial, regulatory and social value.
Registering Ahead of Launch
Stakeholder participation will be limited during the initial release period so that onboarding, implementation and operating support can be managed carefully. Parties seeking to review the model, explore compatibility, contribute specialist knowledge or consider future participation are therefore encouraged to register their interest early.
Development Through Defined Stages
As a project of significant scale, each development stage represents an important increase in the depth, scope and maturity of both the system and the wider venture. New capabilities, controls and operating pathways are introduced progressively, while technical development is supported by continued research, stakeholder review, commercial validation and preparation for responsible market adoption.
Stakeholder Consultation and Alignment
Episodic is seeking stakeholders who can test the model against real operating requirements, assess its compatibility with existing commercial and governance processes, and contribute informed feedback on implementation, controls and outcomes. Relevant participants may include buyers, framework operators, contractors, agencies, workers, funders, insurers, regulators, auditors and specialist advisers with a direct interest in improving temporary labour markets.
Investment and Strategic Support
Episodic is also seeking investors who recognise the long-term value of trusted market infrastructure, understand the requirements of staged technology and venture development, and can contribute strategic experience, sector relationships or governance capability alongside capital. The priority is to engage parties whose interests are aligned with building a durable system capable of generating significant commercial, regulatory and social value.
Registering Ahead of Launch
Stakeholder participation will be limited during the initial release period so that onboarding, implementation and operating support can be managed carefully. Parties seeking to review the model, explore compatibility, contribute specialist knowledge or consider future participation are therefore encouraged to register their interest early.