You're the CIO. AI is everywhere. Can you keep control?
A fast, funny AI leadership simulation for leaders, teams and trainers. Make eight quarters of uncomfortable calls, survive the board review, and discover what kind of CIO you become under pressure.
Decisions with receipts
Each quarter gives you a real AI leadership problem, advisor reactions, a forecast, and then reality doing what reality does best: being less impressed than the slide deck.
Speed, quality, budget, stakeholders and backlog all pull in different directions.
The gap between the promise and the outcome is where the learning lands.
Play solo, in breakouts or projected as a tabletop. The arguing is doing useful work.
Use it three ways
🧭 Leadership warm-up
Pressure-test AI instincts before the real boardroom starts asking sharper questions.
🎓 AI literacy session
A short, playable way into governance, risk, cost, adoption and responsible AI.
🗣️ Workshop debate
Compare endings, replay as different orgs and debrief the choices people fought over.
What kind of CIO are you?
V4 tracks the pattern behind your choices. Survive, and the ending tells you whether you were brilliant, careful, lucky or simply very good at making paperwork look heroic.
What you'll grapple with
All topic briefs
Go straight to practical briefs for every major decision area covered by the simulation.
Governance
Shadow AI
AI FinOps
Model Risk
Supplier Risk
Fairness
Residency
Strategy
Talent
Operating model
Executive risk
Resilience
Research grounding
The simulation model is informed by published evidence and policy frameworks. Selected sources: The Productivity J-Curve (AEJ Macro), Bass Diffusion Model, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps.