The modelling platform NZ needed didn't exist.
307 million precomputed economic scenarios. 104 regions. 109 sectors. Sub-50ms response. Built in Aotearoa, for Aotearoa — the CGE platform that changes everything.
Meet VECTR
Governments, councils, iwi, and researchers across New Zealand make economic decisions worth billions every year. The models available to support those decisions are slow, expensive, assumption-locked, and limited to a handful of regions. Most of them can't even tell you what happens to the Māori economy, or whether the regions are converging or pulling apart. VECTR was built because the tool these decisions deserve didn't exist — and because one person, with the right combination of skills and a decade of experience in government's most technical backend teams, decided to build it.
The questions that keep decision-makers up at night.
These aren't hypothetical. These are the questions ministers, CEs, and iwi leaders actually ask — and that most models can only partly answer. VECTR answers all of them.
"What is the total loss to the national bottom line?"
→ Total GDP Impact ($M) & % Change
"How many people will lose their livelihoods in this shock?"
→ Headcount & % Sector Change
"How much more will a basket of goods cost for families?"
→ CPI & Real Exchange Rate
"How much money would we have to give households to make them 'whole' again?"
→ Equivalent Variation (EV)
"How much capital value did the Māori economy lose or gain?"
→ Iwi Asset Growth ($M)
"When can I tell the public the crisis is officially over?"
→ Quarters to Equilibrium
"What is the worst-case scenario we should prepare for?"
→ Economic Value at Risk (EVaR)
"Which policy lever gives us the biggest bang for our buck?"
→ Marginal Efficiency Frontier
"Is wealth concentrating in Auckland and Wellington at the expense of the regions?"
→ Regional Gini Coefficient
"Can we trust this prediction if our assumptions are slightly off?"
→ Parameter Confidence Intervals
"Does the policy produce a net gain for society, all costs considered?"
→ Net Social Welfare
"Who are the 'Regional Heroes' — the districts whose growth has the highest positive spillover onto their neighbours?"
→ Spillover Amplification
Fit for emergencies of all shapes and sizes.
"Cyclone Gabrielle hits Hawke's Bay. What do we tell the Cabinet in 48 hours?"
→ VECTR: $2.1B GDP impact, 4,200 jobs at risk, 6-quarter recovery, Wairoa district hardest hit. Available before the press conference.
From extreme to mundane — VECTR handles the curly questions.
"We're putting $60M into geothermal in Taupō. What happens to Rotorua's trades pipeline? Does Hamilton feel it?"
→ VECTR: 340 direct jobs in Taupō, Rotorua loses 12% of its construction workforce to cross-regional pull, Hamilton housing demand rises 1.8%. The next town always feels it — now you can see how much.
Four ways in. Same engine underneath.
Whether you're a policy team running scenarios all day, a researcher plugging into your own pipeline, or an analyst who just needs a quick answer — there's a way to access VECTR that fits how you work.
VECTR Console
A three-panel GUI designed to be usable by non-economists. Build a scenario, see the results, explore the regions — all in one screen. Comes with the VECTR AI Assistant for guided specification.
VECTR API
A RESTful API that returns the full results payload for any scenario query. Can be self-hosted within your organisation or accessed through the Danalytics-hosted service. Designed for integration into existing analytical workflows.
VECTR CLI
For practitioners who prefer the command line. Script your scenarios, batch your runs, pipe the output into whatever comes next. The traditional way, backed by a non-traditional engine.
VECTR Lite
A precomputed manifold for New Zealand, packaged to run on hardware as light as a Chromebook. No live solver — just the lookup engine and the full reporting layer. For teams that need answers in the field.
See what a query looks like.
Configure a scenario, hit Run, and watch 83 regions respond. Real VECTR v1.01 output.
Single-period equilibrium
Or click regions on the map to select
Wages fixed, output adjusts
How the models compare.
A like-for-like comparison of CGE models across New Zealand, Australia's CoPS ecosystem, and international references. The orange line separates VECTR-only capabilities.
| Model | Est. | NZ- specific |
Dynamic | Multi- regional |
Māori / Indigenous |
Sectoral detail |
Trade / policy |
Soc. / equity |
Sequenced closure |
Self-sub. correction |
Reproducible provenance |
AGDEF compliant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | ||||||||||||
VECTR v1.01 |
2024 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
NZTM (WP 02/07) |
2002 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
C-PLAN v1.0 |
2022 | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Australia — CoPS ecosystem (VU Melbourne) | ||||||||||||
ORANI / ORANI-G |
1977 | ✗ | ✗ | ◑ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
MONASH / VU-National |
1993 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
MMRF / MMRF-Green |
~1996 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
TERM |
~2002 | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| International reference models | ||||||||||||
IFPRI Standard CGE |
2002 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Baker Institute Tax CGE |
— | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Energy sector CGE |
— | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
The Australian CoPS models represent ~50 years of continuous institutional development. No model in the CoPS ecosystem carries indigenous disaggregation, a Social Audit Layer, sequenced closure rules, self-substitution correction, serialised reproducible provenance, or AGDEF-compliant output. ◑ = partial or prototype capability.
Explore VECTR for your sector.
Each of these pages goes deeper into how VECTR works for your specific context — the features that matter to you, the questions you're actually asking, and the outcomes that justify the investment.
Iwi, Pasifika & Social Impact
Cultural economic tracking, hauora measurement, Te Reo output, and the Social Auditing Layer. How VECTR supports Treaty contexts and social investment.
Government & Enterprise
The most sophisticated CGE platform in the Southern Hemisphere. Speed, scale, accountability, and the path to recovery — for ministers, CEs, and policy teams.
Technical & Academic
Three novel contributions. Peer-reviewable mathematics. Exhaustive sensitivity grids. API access. The page where equations belong.
Data, Licensing & Legal
Data sources and vintages, commercial licensing, AI disclosure, and legal disclaimers. Everything compliance and procurement need.
Register your interest.
VECTR v1.01 is entering limited access. Whether you want a product licence, a managed research engagement, or just want to see what it can do — put your name down and we'll be in touch.