Martyn's Law — Protect Duty Training System

Build a Martyn's Law training product that holds up under three competing constraints: a door supervisor must remember it under live pressure, a venue manager must defend it at audit, and a security director must use it as the annual refresher without re-procuring. The Act is in force, enforcement begins April 2027, and most existing market options are slide decks of statute citations that nobody recalls 90 seconds into a real incident.

The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 ("Martyn's Law") sets enforceable training duties at two tiers — Standard (200+ capacity) and Enhanced (800+) — with enforcement beginning April 2027. The off-the-shelf market for this is dominated by 30-minute slide decks. The discovery question wasn't "what does the statute say"; it was "what will a door supervisor actually do when she has 90 seconds and 2,000 lives". That demanded scenarios with cognitive load, not bullet points. It also demanded one source-of-truth content layer that could render at three rigour levels — junior staff, manager, security lead — so a single SCORM package could serve every cohort inside a venue without rebuilding.

The course is built around one venue across one year — the same staff, the same site, escalating threats. Module 1 opens with a suspicious bag in the foyer 90 seconds before doors. Subsequent modules expand the pressure: reconnaissance patterns at the loading bay, blind spots in the stewarding rota, a multi-vendor radio channel during a live show, and a regulator's tabletop the morning after. Design decisions that broke the off-the-shelf mould: • **One blueprint, three rigour levels.** Each module renders to Guided / Base / Expert from a single source. Same scenario, different evidentiary load, different time pressure, different aftercare. Junior staff get a coached path; security leads get a regulator-grade audit trail. • **Style chosen per cognitive demand, not per house style.** Ops-center for live ops, noir for evidence sequencing, paper-scrapbook for retrospective audits, comic for low-anxiety novice training. Eight idioms, each load-bearing. • **Activity engines built from scratch.** The reaction-window timing scorer, the fog-of-war resource-constrained audit, the evidence-board with conditional cross-references — none ship with Storyline. Built as native HTML/CSS/JS state machines, persistence-safe across reloads, SCORM-1.2 score round-trippable. Stack: Astro for the catalogue layer, native HTML/CSS/JS per module, SCORM 1.2 packaging via a custom Node build pipeline, AI-assisted scene and character generation across all 16 modules, multi-character TTS-driven ambient audio (control-room dispatch, radio feeds, voicemail bank), automated browser QA across every decision path before ship.

The shipped product breaks the off-the-shelf mould on five dimensions: • **16 modules across 8 distinct visual styles** — ops-center for live decisions, noir-detective for evidence review, paper-scrapbook for tabletop debriefs, anime visual novel for high-emotion bystander moments, comic for novice onboarding, plus pixel-retro, watercolour, and cinematic. Style is chosen per scenario to fit the cognitive load of the decision being practised, not for visual consistency. • **3 audience tracks deployed as one SCORM 1.2 package** — Guided (junior staff), Base (managers), and Expert (security leads) renderable per module. One upload, three cohorts served, one update cycle. • **4.5 hours total content**, ~90 minutes per track. Demo module playable with no login. • **Novel activity mechanics** that don't exist in standard authoring tools: a reaction-window intervention timing engine (multi-source audio convergence, three verdict zones — too-early, in-window, too-late, with separate scoring for no-click hesitation); a video gap-filler that scores reconstruction of a missing CCTV window with false-positive penalties for speculation-as-fact; ops-center split-pane scenes with live degrading telemetry; evidence-board cross-referencing with conditional reveals. • **Every decision cites the statute** — Standard vs Enhanced Tier obligations, capacity thresholds, the personal-liability surface for Responsible Persons. Legal review: signed off by qualified UK counsel before ship.