Building your first comparable set

Write the brief before choosing peers

Open the Comparable set workbench and describe the offering you are planning. The title is required. Add the description, credential form, delivery mode, contact hours, fee and currency, province, comparison geography, and intended audience when they are known. An unlaunched idea is analyzed against the index but is never added to it.

The geography control defines a defensible boundary. You can compare within a province, across Canada, across Canada and the United States, or more broadly. The fee currency matters because CredScape does not convert between CAD and USD.

Review candidates as evidence

The workbench finds offerings that could substitute for the idea from a buyer's perspective. It considers who could choose the alternative, the commitment involved, and whether published fee and hours support a benchmark. Match labels show the bands a candidate shares with the brief, such as credential form, market, audience, delivery format, or provider kind.

CredScape proposes candidates and supporting evidence. You decide which offerings belong. Exclude a candidate when the difference would weaken the comparison, and retain the reason in your analysis. A defensible set should explain both inclusions and exclusions.

Save a snapshot

Name and save the set when the boundary is ready. The saved snapshot preserves the brief, included and excluded candidates, and the benchmark figures from that run. You can return to it from the workbench or the library, rerun it against newer data, and export it to CSV or Excel .xlsx. The PDF option opens your browser's print dialog, where the browser determines the available PDF settings and output.

If the comparables engine is unavailable, the page says so explicitly. An engine failure is not evidence that no comparables exist.