Technology. Geopolitics. Business.

Test the Future by Gaming it Out.

We create compact, interactive & intellectual experiences

that challenge executives to make decisions & experience future problems from new perspectives. 

Because risk is not just a stochastic number, but a series of decisions that individuals make in and around organizations.

Use Cases

Engage Stakeholders on Topics Like Never Before

  • Simulate complex environments & incentives.

  • Stakeholders can “stand in new shoes” to gain perspective

  • Spark deep conversations on “winning,” “losing,” and how to change leaders’ incentives.

C-Suite Workshops That Inspire & Create Strategic Empathy

  • Practice decisions before they happen & test assumptions.

  • Uncover incentives & tackle different viewpoints.

  • Simulate nebulous outcomes that are difficult to quantify & model.

Socialize Strategies & Develop Teams

  • Educate employees on corporate strategies through games.

  • Highlight bottlenecks between functions & time limitations.

  • Create awareness, desire and knowledge of change through unique, exciting experiences.

OUR PROCESS

We co-develop the concept then design and iterate for the final experience.

Our compact, intellectual experiences test the most difficult problems facing leaders. We gamify external risks, internal dynamics and timelines to assess scenarios, responses and potential outcomes in efficient, tailored environments. 

CASE STUDIES

China Business Environment

Situation
Lux Capital, a deep-tech VC fund asked: how can technologists better understand geopolitical risks in China?

Result
A two-hour game and debrief session for six executives where they gave away their IP, misunderstood policies, and became frustrated with changes in US & Chinese policies. Just like real life. 

Confidential C-Suite Session

Situation
A top-tier strategy consulting firm asked, what might happen if their client left a critical market to focus their operations elsewhere?

Result
A 90 minute multi-scenario discussion with the end client, developing a crisis playbook, contingency planning and financial revaluations.

FAQs

  • Executive Simulation Experiences

    Simulation Takeaways & Recommendations

    Crisis Playbook Review

    Business - Geopolitical Analysis

  • Venture Capital

    Fortune 500

    MBB & Big-4 Consulting Firms

    Universities

    Non-profits

  • Some decisions are too sudden to analyze, nuanced to just read about, too complex for a power-point and have too dramatic of trade-offs to add up in excel.

Founder - Ian Curtiss

  • Over 25 years of gaming experience.

  • Nearly 20 years in Government Relations, Strategy Consulting, & Executive Education.

  • 6 Years in Beijing, China.

  • 3 Years in US-Mexico Immigration, Security, & Economics.

  • 3 languages.

  • 2 Mass-market boardgames

  • 2 Master’s degrees: MBA from Arizona State University & M.A. of International Relations from Peking (Beijing) University

  • 2 Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and History

See our Mass-market Games: