FAQ & About
The short answers — then a little about why this thing exists.
Frequently asked questions
Is The Agentic Horizon free to play?
Completely free. Runs in any modern web browser, with no sign-up, no account, no download and no catch.
How long does a game take?
About 10–15 minutes — eight quarters of decisions across two in-game years. Quick to replay, because the deck is dealt fresh every time (and you'll want revenge).
What is it actually about?
You play a CIO steering an organisation through two years of AI transformation. Each quarter brings a real AI dilemma — governance, security, cost, bias, vendor risk and more — and you balance speed, quality and budget while keeping stakeholders onside and quietly becoming a recognisable kind of AI leader. See how to play →
Can I use it for corporate training?
Yes. It works well for AI literacy, AI governance and leadership-development sessions — as solo pre-work, team breakouts or a facilitated tabletop. There's a free facilitator guide with a 60-minute plan and debrief questions.
Is it suitable for boards and executives?
Yes. The dilemmas are pitched at CIO and executive level and map to the questions boards are now asking about AI risk — a useful warm-up for board education and governance workshops.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It's a single web page that runs entirely in your browser, on desktop or mobile. Nothing to install, no data collected, no IT ticket required.
Is it multiplayer?
Single-player by design — but teams love crowding round one screen and arguing every move, which is where most of the learning (and shouting) happens.
Can I replay it?
Yes. The deck is dealt fresh, the organisation archetypes change your starting pressure, and v4 tracks the style behind your choices. You may be a Steady Hand, a Value Architect, a Box-Ticker or something HR would prefer not to celebrate publicly.
What's new in v4?
More of the good trouble: 29 dilemmas, four responses per card, richer CISO/CFO/CPO reactions, optional guardrails and hedges, new topics like AI operating models and sovereign AI, plus CIO-style endings that make excellent debrief fuel.
Is the content accurate?
Each scenario is grounded in real cases, governance frameworks and well-known AI security, FinOps and leadership lessons, told with a light, humorous tone. It has receipts. Annoyingly, quite a lot of them. Every decision ends with a short real-world debrief. See the topics →
About the game
The Agentic Horizon started with a nagging question: why is leading AI so hard when the technology keeps getting easier? Because the difficulty was never really technical — it's the trade-offs, the stakeholders and the consequences that turn up a few quarters after the decision, when you've forgotten you made it. The game drops you inside those trade-offs, makes them quick and replayable, and hands you the lesson every time the forecast and reality fall out. Play it solo, or inflict it on a room — it works either way.
Selected external sources
For readers who want the receipts, the release notes reference peer-reviewed and policy material including The Productivity J-Curve, Bass (1969) diffusion modelling, NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and the SEC Knight Capital order.