Industrial Linguistics designs short, playable simulations for sales teams, consultants, boards and AI-adoption programmes. People try the decision, see the trade-offs, and leave with material for the next conversation.
Built from browser tools, printed cards, facilitator scripts, prompts, scoreboards and debrief material.
Start with a business decision, an existing game, or a consulting method that would work better if people could experience the problem before discussing it.
Turn a sales motion, policy problem, board question or change programme into a game people can play in a workshop or sales meeting.
Start from RoleShock, Now, SignalStorm or Friday 4PM, then run it as-is or adapt it to your context.
If your consulting work depends on getting people to notice a problem, a simulation can give them the experience before the recommendation.
Each game has a live or runnable form, plus a buying path for teams that want a facilitated session, adaptation, pilot or licence conversation.
A five-minute simulation where buyers try to meet new demand with the skills they already have, then see the cost of training, delay and transition debt.
A two-week prompt-based exercise that asks people, during real work, whether AI could help with what they are doing now.
A tabletop forecasting game where teams make decisions before the signal is clean, then compare gut feel, AI-assisted analysis and structured forecasting.
A workplace simulation about what people do when the safe process is slower than the work in front of them.
A good project usually starts with one decision: the choice you want a buyer, team or board to understand differently after playing.
We define the moment: who is deciding, what they know, what they do not know, what is at stake, and what conversation the game should make possible.
The first version may be a browser screen, a deck of cards, a printed board, a spreadsheet, a script, or a mix of these. The point is to get the decision into people's hands quickly.
Participants make choices under time, budget, role or information constraints. The game records what they notice, where they get stuck, and what they try to trade off.
The debrief becomes sales material, workshop evidence, pilot design, policy discussion or a practical next step.
The same core design method can produce a short sales-room exercise, a field prompt programme, or a longer tabletop session.
For sales teams that need prospects to feel a problem before hearing the pitch.
For 60-120 minute sessions where teams need to practise a decision, policy or change.
For boards and leadership teams dealing with uncertainty, risk, AI governance or investment choices.
For AI adoption or discovery programmes where useful examples need to come from real work, not a brainstorm.
If you already run advisory, transformation or training work, Industrial Linguistics can help you add a simulation layer to it. That might mean adapting one of the existing games, designing a game around your method, or leaving you with facilitator notes and materials your team can run without me in the room.
Talk about consultant useSome Industrial Linguistics projects are still useful, but they should not carry the main pitch. They sit here as examples of mechanics, tools and research that can be drawn into a simulation when relevant.
Brand monitoring and persona panels can become market signals, stakeholder reactions, synthetic customers and debrief evidence.
Operational tools can supply scenarios, sample data and mechanics for account, asset and workflow simulations.
Board, property and cybersecurity research can become source material for governance rooms, investment games and executive tabletop exercises.
Courses, professional practice material and translation experiments stay available as inputs or adjacent services.
Industrial Linguistics has worked with banks, technology companies, government, education, retail, professional services and high-change operating environments.
The client wall remains deliberately broad: the work has ranged from large institutions to specialist technology teams, government groups and smaller firms.
The simplest first project is a short simulation for one sales conversation, workshop, board question or AI-adoption bottleneck.