The economic answer in full detail, while the decision is still open.
VECTR is New Zealand's economics platform: scenario analysis across the whole economy, run as a deterministic program your team licenses in-house — or commissioned from ours. Ask what a decision does and the answer comes back in seconds, down to the region and the industry sector, sourced, and ready for a Cabinet paper or a select committee.
For ministers, agency teams, and councils who are answerable for the call — and need the evidence in time to use it.
Answer “how much?” in seconds, and spend the rest of the day on what to do about the impact.
VECTR did the heavy modelling once, in advance: over 250 million scenarios. So a query is a lookup, not a project. Retrieving the stored results a question needs takes milliseconds, and VECTR CORE solves what remains in a few seconds. Against a conventional turnaround measured in months.
The seconds come from the architecture: solving the economy is the expensive step, and VECTR CORE did it ahead of time — 1,305 solved inversions stand behind the stored results. The answer that arrives is settled, not provisional: on a given version of the data, the same scenario always returns the same result, so the figures you brief are the figures that hold.
What your team does with VECTR.
Answering in seconds changes what your team can say, and when: something specific, with the numbers behind it, at the moment the question is asked. Concretely, this:
Brief Cabinet inside 48 hours
A disaster hits a region. Cabinet needs the GDP impact, the jobs at risk and the recovery horizon before the press conference, not after the inquiry. You bring the number itself, not the best estimate the timeframe allowed.
Pressure-test a Budget measure
Run the measure before the number goes in the Budget. You see which regions and sectors carry the cost and who gets the benefit, in time to change the design rather than repair the damage later.
Answer a select committee question on the spot
“What does this measure do to the regions?” is answerable in the room, down to the territorial authority and the industry sector — naming the districts and the sectors affected, at the resolution the disclosure rules allow.
Break a modelling deadlock in a single meeting
Bring both sets of assumptions to the same 30-minute meeting: run each one, put the results side by side, and give the rest of the 30 minutes to what to do about the impact rather than to which assumptions win.
“Cyclone Gabrielle hits Hawke's Bay. What can we tell Cabinet about the regional damage in 48 hours?”
VECTR: the GDP hit, the industries carrying it, the recovery quarter by quarter, and how far it travels beyond Hawke's Bay. The report carries a run ID your officials can check. Ready before the press conference, not after the inquiry.
You'll usually need one number (at first).
VECTR produces 22 measures across 9 analytical dimensions — GDP, jobs, welfare, sector, trade, government, region and the Māori economy among them. Most days you'll need one. The other 21 are there for the day the question gets harder: same platform, same speed, no new model to commission.
When someone rejects your assumptions, rerun with theirs.
The oldest move in the book: “I disagree with your elasticities,” and the analysis is dead — because testing the alternative used to take weeks. VECTR's sensitivity grid is already computed. When a reviewer objects, rerun with their exact assumptions, in the meeting, and show them what changes. Usually the conclusion holds; when it doesn't, you've found something real.
Every number calculated for New Zealand
The numbers aren't borrowed from an overseas model and rescaled. They're calculated from New Zealand data, and the assumptions are on the table rather than under it. See the method →
Output that arrives ready for scrutiny.
A number that informs a public decision has to survive a public examination of it. Every VECTR output passes through a Social Auditing Layer before it reaches you: privacy suppression for small populations, distributional fairness flags, and a Tiriti consideration on every result. Handled before the number lands on your desk, not after a complaint.
Local-government ready
The 104-region breakdown is 1 national view, 16 regional council areas, and every territorial authority and Auckland local board, so a council sees its own district at its own scale.
Traceable and repeatable
Every run mints a unique run ID, printed on the report as a 2D barcode — your officials can call up that exact run and re-run it. Prove It is coming: the full derivation of any number, back to checkable public data. Sources →
Pre-checked for safety
Small-population suppression, distributional fairness flags, and misrepresentation guards run on every output. How the audit layer works →
Licensing.
Two ways to have it. Licence VECTR from Danalytics Consulting Ltd and run it in-house — hosted, self-hosted, API-only, or VECTR Lite in the field — or commission the Danalytics team to run it for you. Licences go to central government, councils, research institutions and enterprise.