Strategic Simulations

Creating custom immersive learning experiences that build strategic agility to lead through contexts of deep uncertainty and surprise.

Exploring Frontier Risks

Strategic simulations let teams engage complex, unpredictable environments in a setting that's safe but realistic — testing decisions under pressure against technological disruption, geopolitical shifts, or economic shocks, and surfacing the differences in how a group actually thinks. Because each simulation is built for your context, participants practice navigating ambiguity, adversarial moves, and surprise in real time — developing the strategic agility, crisis communication, and cross-team collaboration that rigid long-term plans can't provide. As uncertainty deepens, especially around frontier risks, this is how leaders rehearse for it.
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“When the Future Pushes Back”

Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith talk about Foom with In Clear Focus

Foom_ A Strategic Simulation

Foom is a live strategic preparedness tool, where your decisions directly shape the future of AI, from its risks to its breakthroughs. Navigate complex, evolving scenarios and see how your choices influence the trajectory of tomorrow's technology.

Foom (noun)
A hypothetical rapid acceleration in artificial intelligence capabilities, where an AI swiftly surpasses human intelligence and recursively improves itself beyond control.
A strategic simulation modeling AI development and governance challenges, designed to cultivate foresight and critical decision-making in high-stakes futures.

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"Foom gave me a much deeper understanding of the challenges AGI presents, while offering a rare opportunity to connect with peers who are equally invested in the future of AI."

— Coordinator, Government AI Working Group

"Working with the team to imagine plausible tensions for the workshop is a really interesting way to examine the pressures on our teams."

— Foresight Strategist, Large Media Organization

"Foom was a magnificent strategic simulation of the interaction within groups and between groups, using the five rounds perfectly to bring a sense of real peril to each decision and encourage deep conversation beyond the gameplay."

— Tech Futurist, Large Media Organisation

Foom Live Simulation, ACMI, Melbourne

Group of women and men engaged in conversation at a round table during a professional conference or workshop, with conference materials and electronic devices on the table, in a room with colorful lighting and a large projection screen.

A woman with short with gray hair and a name tag labeled 'Jorie' is talking to someone, sitting at a table with glasses, a water bottle, a laptop, and papers. Other people are in the background, engaging in conversation, in a dimly lit room with blue lighting.

A woman with short brown hair, smiling and laughing, sitting at a table with a group of people in a dimly lit room with blue lighting. She is wearing a light-colored sweater and has a name tag on. There are papers, a tablet, and drinks on the table.

Images: Bryan Tang

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