Practise the money decisions of working life before they cost you
Katlego Professionals is a life simulation for working adults. Build a character, hand them a salary and a set of goals, and steer them through first payslips, rental deposits, retirement decisions, insurance gaps and a side business growing up. Every decision teaches something real, and nothing touches your real money.
A closed simulation, on purpose
The platform never connects to a real bank account, payslip, credit record or policy. Your character takes the risks. You keep the lessons.
Live working life in fast forward
Months pass in minutes. Salaries land, rent bites, quiet freelance months test the float, and your character's choices add up in front of you.
Watch goals get built, brick by brick
A retirement tree grows across decades, a first home rises from its foundation, a side business builds out its storefront. Setbacks wind the scene backward, good months build it up again.
Buy a module, keep it forever
Each module is a complete story bought once: payslips, renting, retirement, home ownership, insurance, debt strategy, and scaling a side business. Every one ends with a real take-home tool you will actually use.
Credentials employers can verify
Every completed module earns a verifiable certificate, and finishing the Professional Foundations Bundle unlocks a capstone credential spanning all four modules.
How it works
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Build a character
Pick a professional archetype or set your own salary, costs and side income.
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Set their goals
A deposit, a retirement pot, a business that pays for itself. Watch them get built scene by scene.
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Pick your modules
First Payslip and Take-Home Pay is free to try. Buy the modules you want, once each, and play at your own pace.
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Keep what you build
Finish a module and walk away with a personalised workbook and a verifiable certificate, all the way up to the capstone credential.
Start with the free module today
First Payslip and Take-Home Pay is free to play once, take-home workbook and certificate included. No subscription, ever: just buy the modules you want.
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