AI Flight Simulator.
Most AI transformations stumble. Learn how to succeed, in 90 minutes.
Strategy Game for AI Champions
Teams compete through a five-year AI transformation. They feel the counter‑intuitive feedback loops firsthand, get humbled, and discover what separates success from failure.
Mean team improvement after a single debrief.
Each grounded in a specific feedback loop.
AI-driven personas your teams compete with.
A Flight Simulator, Not a Case Study
Complex systems are notoriously hard to learn from lecture. Executives must feel the feedback loops, not read about them.
Five years in ninety minutes
Twenty quarters of decisions compress a full transformation into a single class. Events fire deterministically from each team’s own state — every consequence traces back to a specific decision.
Get humbled, learn, play again
Round 1 humbles naive strategies. The debrief surfaces the feedback loops. Round 2 measures the improvement. Teams consistently beat their Round 1 performance by 4–8×.
Calibrated against benchmarks
The game's optimal strategy converges on BCG's 70% people-first finding. Resistance dynamics reproduce Prosci’s 7× change-management multiplier. Players discover the empirical research.
Compete Against AI Opponents
Drop one or more AI teams into any session. Each AI team plays a recognizable management persona: aggressive, cautious, people-first, tech-first. Classic failure patterns stop being words in a case study. They come to life in the simulator.
Small classes work with AI
Four students, one laptop? Add two AI teams and run the full multi-team competitive dynamic. No minimum cohort size to unlock the simulator’s core pedagogy.
A live expert baseline
An unscripted AI team reaches $17–22M in value over 20 quarters — expert-tier play. Your students watch a credible benchmark unfold during their own session, not afterward.
Archetypes come alive
“Move Fast & Break Things” and “Build It And They Will Come” stop being warnings on a slide. Students watch them push tempo to 3× while adoption stalls at 35% — the failure pattern in motion.
| Persona | Worldview | 20Q Value |
|---|---|---|
| Earned Blitz | Foundations before pressure; then harvest | $17–21M |
| People First | Workforce readiness before velocity | $15–20M |
| Quiet Professionals | Balanced portfolio, no drama | $14–17M |
| Committee of Caution | Governance first; deploying with guardrails | $14–16M |
| Build It And They Will Come | Tech determines value; people follow the tools | $6–11M |
| Move Fast & Break Things | Speed is the product; friction is the enemy | $6–8M |
Same budget. Same five-year horizon. Different worldviews. Ranges calibrated against a scripted-tournament harness of nine management archetypes — full leaderboard in the facilitator guide.
Nine Teachable Moments
Each one maps to a specific feedback loop. Players experience them during play. The facilitator reveals them at debrief.
Pace generates resistance, which blocks the outcomes speed was supposed to accelerate.
An overloaded innovation team ships less, not more. Congestion collapses deployment rate.
Value is multiplicative: high capability × low adoption = low value. Adoption dominates.
No deployments → no maturity ceiling → no value. Order of operations matters.
Change management in Year 1 is 7× cheaper than fixing it in Year 5 — Prosci’s number, reproduced.
Training has a 23-month half-life. Stop investing and half of what you built is gone in two years.
Hackathons and low-code multiply every effort — but only once adoption is high enough to support them.
Our optimizer independently discovers BCG’s 70% people-first finding. The math converges on the research.
When industry AI maturity advances, standing still destroys value. “Wait and see” is a losing strategy.
Three Formats
Drop into any curriculum: 2-hour session, offsite workshop, or academic program.
90 Minutes
One round, short debrief
Best for executives with limited time who want a single powerful experience.
- 35 minutes play (10 quarters)
- Leaderboard reveal + 2–3 teachable moments
- Reflection worksheet
Half Day
Two rounds, full debrief
Round 1 humbles the strategy. Round 2 tests new mental models under competitive dynamics. Repeated play is load-bearing — this is where the lessons stick.
- Two 40-minute rounds
- Full feedback-loop debrief of 5 teachable moments
- Measurable Round 1 → Round 2 improvement
AI Benchmark
Humans vs. AI
Students play alongside AI teams configured with specific management personas. Live archetype trajectories unfold next to their own.
- Works with as few as 4 students
- AI teams set the pace
- Round 2 compares human vs. archetype trajectories
One Simulator, Three Audiences
Scales across academic programs, enterprise training, and client advisory.
Teach AI strategy with a living case study
A self-contained module for core MBA, Executive MBA, or custom exec-ed. Facilitator guide grounded in the academic literature on learning in complex systems and the current BCG/McKinsey AI benchmarks.
- Three class formats: 90-min, half-day, or AI-benchmark
- Works with as few as 4 students (AI teams fill the cohort)
- Pre-class + debrief materials included
Build an AI-ready leadership bench
Run internal cohorts of senior leaders, product teams, or your transformation office. The simulator gives them a shared language for the causal loops — so when transformation decisions come up in the next quarterly review, everyone shares a mental model.
- Launch on our secure hosted service — no IT provisioning
- Scales to 30+ teams per session
- Session data exportable as JSON for LMS integration
Diagnostic and rehearsal, in one engagement
Run the simulator with your client’s leadership team early in an engagement. What plays out in the sim — over-spend on tech, under-investment in change capacity — is almost always the pattern they’re already repeating at work.
- Nine named failure archetypes as diagnostic
- Facilitator guide with coaching intervention prompts
- Feedback-loop diagrams ready to project in debrief
A 35-Page Instructor Manual
Pedagogical architecture, the nine teachable moments with causal-loop diagrams, minute-by-minute class formats, a full set of management archetypes, and coaching interventions for each recognizable team pattern.
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