Change is inevitable. Know the economic impact right now.
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. A natural disaster, an oil shortage, a new tax, or whatever tomorrow brings — set the event's details and VECTR does the rest, returning the impact in the measures you answer for, from the whole country down to a single district: jobs, GDP, prices, and the regions carrying the cost. Full computable general equilibrium modelling, static and dynamic, precomputed across more than 250 million scenarios: most answers arrive near instantly, anything outside that grid is solved on the spot.
For those who make decisions worth millions and answer for them: ministers, agencies, councils, iwi, industry bodies, researchers, and the stakeholders alongside them.
The same question. Months apart.
A conventional model is a project: commission it, feed it data, calibrate it, run it, review it. VECTR did that work once, in advance, for over 250 million scenarios, so the answer is a lookup, not a project.
Solving the economy is the expensive step, so it was done ahead of time: 1,305 solved inversions stand behind over 250 million stored results. Your question is an indexed read of the rows it needs — milliseconds — then a few seconds to solve what remains and write the report. A conventional turnaround is measured in months.
The number you came for, first on the page.
Most decisions turn on one figure: the hit to GDP, the jobs at risk, the cost of putting affected households back where they were. Every VECTR report is laid out so that figure sits at the top, sourced and ready to put in a paper. All 22 measures are in the same report for when the question gets harder.
Ask “how many jobs?” and the headcount is the first line of the report, not something you hunt for.
Every run mints its own run ID, printed on the report as a 2D barcode. Weeks later, when someone asks where that figure came from, the run ID takes you back to the exact run that produced it. That link doesn't expire: the records behind every ID are held on commercial-grade servers with layered protection for disaster recovery and long-term cataloguing — and the next phase, rebuilding any run from its specification alone, is already in the works.
Your question in plain English, and the measure that answers it.
Each line below pairs a question the way it gets asked in the room with the measure VECTR returns for it. Find yours.
“Cyclone Gabrielle hits Hawke's Bay. What can we tell Cabinet in 48 hours?”
VECTR returns the answer the same day: the GDP hit, the industries carrying it, where the effects travel beyond Hawke's Bay, and the fracture points to keep watching. Before the press conference, not after the inquiry.
“We're putting $60M into geothermal in Taupō. Who else feels it?”
VECTR: which industries move, where the effect travels, and what it adds to the national accounts. The next town along always feels an investment this size — and that normally surfaces a year later, once the data arrives. You see it while the decision is still open.
And the answer arrives as a report, not a dashboard.
12 sections, each headed by the question it answers rather than by the name of a technique. The sequence follows the order you would brief in: what happened, where the impact lands, who carries the cost, and how sure we are. In the report each heading also carries its te reo Māori name.
- 1 · What happened?Executive summary
- 2 · What is driving the result?The policy settings and the relationships behind them
- 3 · How large, and for how long?Impact timeline, quarter by quarter
- 4 · Who are the groups affected?Regional breakdown, district by district
- 5 · Which industries?Sectoral breakdown
- 6 · How does it spread?Spillover analysis
- 7 · Who bears the cost?Distributional, and the Māori economy
- 8 · How certain are we?Sensitivity & robustness
- 9 · Is the response fair?Governance & ethics: who carries the cost, who gets the benefit
- 10 · The model behind this runModel type, regional and industry level, the build used, closures, production function, and settings applied
- 11 · Data tablesThe output figures, downloadable
- 12 · APS complianceData-ethics checklist
One engine. The way in is your choice.
At the core of VECTR is a single standalone program holding all of the data and all of the analysis. The Console, the API and the portable build are routes into that same core: pick the route that suits how you work, and the answer does not change.
VECTR CLI engage programmatically
The product, at the root. Script your scenarios, batch your runs, pipe the output straight into whatever comes next. Deterministic, inspectable, and the same engine every other route calls.
VECTR API for your pipeline
A REST API returning the full results payload for any query. Self-host inside your organisation, or use the Danalytics-hosted service. One call covers a single paper, and the same call can sit inside a standing procedure.
VECTR Console build and read on screen
A three-panel interface: build a scenario, retrieve the answer, and see how the effects unfold quarter by quarter. You get the answer in time for the deadline, and a plain account of how an unfamiliar event plays out.
VECTR Lite portable
Powered by every precomputed result available for the area you care about, packaged to run on hardware as light as a Chromebook. No live engine: VECTR Lite looks up answers already worked out and returns the full report. For answers in the field.
And the AI assistant? Optional. More on VECTR as code rather than AI →
The four ways VECTR will change your decision-making process.
Set against how an economic question like yours usually gets answered here.
VECTR is code, and code can be directly tested.
Run the same scenario again and the same result comes back. Every solution is checked to have settled rather than assumed to have settled, and every coefficient is inspected. Prove It is coming: the full derivation of any number, traced back to public data you can check yourself.
Where VECTR matters to you.
See it on your own question.
Talk to the team at Danalytics Consulting Ltd (Danalytics) about whether VECTR can answer the questions you are carrying. 3 ways to start — a person reads every one.
See a finished report the deliverable itself
All 12 sections, filled in for a real scenario, so you can judge the work rather than the promise. Ask and we'll send you one: [email protected].
Ask us a question same day
The question you'd actually put to a model: the one you need for a paper, a committee, or a Cabinet round. Send us an email and we'll answer same day — just like VECTR. Start with the question →
How to buy VECTR the procurement path
Cost shape, budget line, the open-advertising threshold, contract shape, and what happens to your data at the end, written for the person who has to put it in a paper. See the full path →