The Long Game ProjectDecision War Room
Play your decision through before you make it.
A counterfactual wargame of the decision you are about to make. It runs on our own engine, needs no day of your team's calendar, and ends in a written report and a board-ready readout.
What to expect
Played without your calendar
The scenario is designed around your decision, then played on the engine: our own software, which plays the game with AI players and logs every move and every ruling. The moves and counter-moves play out without your leadership team giving up a day. You get the findings in writing, then one readout session to work through them. The decision stays with your team.
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.
The seams are shown
The engine is a documented instrument, not an oracle, and it is still experimental. That is why a person referees what it produces. It buys breadth and speed: it can branch the game at one turn, change one setting and play that world forward, so you can compare the endings. 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 (medical doctor, PhD in decision science) designs the scenario, referees 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. If he cannot deliver on the agreed date, you pick a new one at no cost.
A new format
The War Room is the newest thing we sell, and we have not yet delivered one for a client. The method it grew from is the facilitated wargame we have run for years, such as the two food-system games for ALLFED. To see what the engine produces, read the published reports.
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 played 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, and the written price is fixed. About four weeks from the first call to the readout.
Where your material goes
Client work runs on Anthropic's Claude through its commercial API. If you ask, we run it on a local model instead, and nothing leaves the practice.
Your material is kept apart from the public reports and deleted 90 days after delivery. At the practice, only Dr Dan Epstein can reach it.
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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