The Long Game ProjectDecision War Room
Fight your decision before you make it.
A counterfactual wargame of the decision you are about to make - engine-built, run without a day of your team's calendar, delivered as a written report and a board-ready readout.
What to expect
Fought without your calendar
The scenario is designed around your decision, then exercised through our wargame engine - the moves, counter-moves and branching outcomes are played out without gathering your leadership team for a day. You get the findings in writing, then one readout session to work through them.
A rehearsal, not a forecast
A war room is a rehearsal instrument, not a forecast. It will not tell you the future; it will show you which of your assumptions fail first, and who in the room disagreed before it mattered.
The seams are shown
The engine is a documented instrument, not an oracle. It buys breadth and speed - dozens of branches a human team could not play in a week. The judgement is human: every finding is authored, and where the engine got it wrong appears in the report, because that is usually where the interesting assumption lives.
Principal-authored
Dr Dan Epstein designs the scenario, adjudicates the runs, writes the report and delivers the readout. The person who signs the findings is the person who built the instrument - no delegation, no bench.
War Room vs Workshop
Which one fits the decision?
Choose a War Room
One consequential call is already on the table and you want it fought through its counterfactuals before you commit - without pulling your leadership team out of the building. Delivered as a written report and a board-ready readout.
Choose a Workshop
The value you need is your team in the room together - surfacing disagreement live, rehearsing the moment, leaving with commitments they made to each other. A bespoke tabletop exercise, principal-facilitated.
Not sure which shape fits? Describe the decision and we will tell you honestly, before you commit to either.
Investment
A$15,000-25,000
Scoped and priced in writing before design begins.
Bring us the decision.
A thirty-minute conversation with Dr Dan Epstein about the call you are about to make. If a war room is the wrong shape for it, we will say so - and say what the right one is.
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