Why does Hey Monika use fictional clients instead of real case studies?

Fictional clients like Celena, Alex, and the Guest Digital Lab (coming back to the platform shortly) team let Hey Monika put you in front of genuinely difficult situations — a resistant client, a messy debtor ledger, an underprepared small employer — without any real confidentiality risk or real consequences if you get it wrong. A real case study would have to be sanitised so heavily it would lose most of the realism that makes Scenarios useful in the first place. More detail Fictional clients allow realistic difficulty without confidentiality concerns. Real case studies would need heavy sanitising, losing much of their realism anyway. Mistakes on a fictional client cost nothing real, which is the entire point of practising.Frequently asked questions Are the fictional scenarios based on real situations? They're built to reflect realistic, common situations bookkeepers actually encounter, even though the specific clients and companies are invented. Does using fictional clients make the practice less valuable? No — if anything it allows for more difficult, realistic situations than a sanitised real case study safely could include. Get started Treat the fictional clients as seriously as you would a real one — the realism is intentional, even if the names aren't.