There is a lot of video game in this video game! After playing it for 45 minutes I think I get the general idea, except I'm still fuzzy on exactly how I'm supposed to find secrets, so then I lost two audits in a row and my dumb ass was fired.
This is an impressive pile of mechanics that all seem to thread through each other (and each "mode" of the game), which is quite an accomplishment; at first I feared this was going to be a jumbled mess, but it makes sense once I got the hang of it, and a lot of the costs and rewards are pretty intuitive. I have no idea how you could teach them to the player gradually, since they all seem to matter at once... But then, I felt like figuring out the game was part of the game, and interesting in its own right beyond merely trying to min-max all the numbers. So maybe that's fine.
I kind of wish there were more in-depth character interactions so I could get to know who the heck any of these folks are; maybe in response to the post-task response (praise, instruct, etc.) to make it feel less like merely picking from a menu? But then you already did a lot in a month so maybe I'm just tossing out things you've already had in mind for weeks.
Bravo on sheer grit alone, damn.