Why Gusset.
Against the other ways EITs keep track.
Three ways to keep your experience record: Gusset, a general tracking app, or a spreadsheet. What each one does, partly does, or doesn't.
| What it does | Gusset | Other tracking apps | A spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built around your regulator's CBA formThe 34 competencies, your province's labels and limits. | Does it | Partly | Doesn't |
| Counts characters the way your form doesSituation, Action, Outcome, as you type. | Does it | Doesn't | Partly |
| Files one sentence under the competencies it showsMonth and year, with why. | Does it | Partly | Doesn't |
| Type it or say it out loudOn site, from your phone. Gus talks back. | Does it | Partly | Doesn't |
| Your validator comments on the draftBy link. Comments sit on the words. | Does it | Doesn't | Partly |
| Checks a draft against your own entriesWhat's backed, what's missing, what's thin. | Does it | Doesn't | Doesn't |
| Never writes the example for youRegulators prohibit AI-written examples. Gus asks; you answer. | Does it | Partly | Does it |
| Month and year only, no hoursWhat the portals ask for. | Does it | Partly | Partly |
| Lives on your phone's home screenOpens straight to today's log. | Does it | Does it | Partly |
| Export any time, freeCSV, spreadsheet, document or PDF. | Does it | Partly | Does it |
| Stored in Canada, never used to train AIUnder Gusset's privacy policy. | Does it | Partly | Partly |
“Other tracking apps” means the general experience and skills trackers EITs told us they use. None is named here, and none is built around a Canadian regulator's competency-based assessment. A spreadsheet is honest work too; Gusset does the counting, filing and checking for you.
The usual ways, side by side
A spreadsheet
- Good at
- Free, flexible, and yours.
- Falls short
- Every row and every competency code is typed by hand, usually on a laptop, so it gets done in bursts and the details from the weeks between are gone.
- With Gusset
- A sentence from your phone becomes a dated entry, matched to the 34, with what's covered counted for you. You can still export it all as a spreadsheet.
Timesheets
- Good at
- Your time is already in them.
- Falls short
- They say how long, not what you did, what you decided or which competency it shows, and they belong to your employer, not to you.
- With Gusset
- Your own words about the work, kept in your own account that moves with you when you change jobs.
A general AI chat
- Good at
- Quick at turning notes into tidy paragraphs.
- Falls short
- It forgets your work between conversations, can't tell what you've covered, and will happily write or embellish examples, which some regulators don't allow.
- With Gusset
- Gus keeps your record, files each day as it happens, and never writes your examples. Gus asks, you answer in your own words, and Gus checks them against your entries.
Writing it all at the end
- Good at
- No habit to keep for four years.
- Falls short
- Four years is a lot to remember. Dates, numbers and your own decisions fade, and the examples end up vague exactly where they need detail.
- With Gusset
- A minute a day while it's fresh, so at the end you're choosing from dated facts instead of trying to remember them.