Mixed-media business games that help teams rehearse decisions before they face them.
Industrial Linguistics builds short, pointed simulations for sales conversations, executive AI discovery, governance rooms, and capability programs.
Current game work includes RoleShock for AI-era sales conversations, Now for AI opportunity discovery, SignalStorm for decision forecasting, and Friday 4PM for governance pressure.
The strongest pitch is not a generic AI consulting claim. It is a game that lets a buyer feel the tradeoff, name the gap, and ask what happens in their own organization.
A five-minute sales simulation about AI-era workforce shock. The player tries to meet new demand with today's visible skills, then spends a constrained training budget and compares gap cost, cash burn, and transition debt.
Discuss RoleShockCalendar and SMS prompts interrupt normal work and ask whether AI could help right now. Captures become anonymous idea cards for clustering, matching, and pilot design.
Open NowA tabletop forecasting game for AI-era decisions, with live roles, shared state, printable card decks, and pressure to act before the signal is clean.
Open SignalStormA workplace simulation about shortcuts, outsourcing, governance, and the practical work of making the safe path usable when the week is almost over.
Open Friday 4PMEach simulation is built around a concrete commercial job: make the buyer discover a gap, tradeoff, cost, or hidden constraint before the solution is introduced.
We model the decision pressure, buyer role, incentives, missing information, and the conversation the game should unlock.
Browser screens, physical cards, SMS/calendar prompts, printed boards, and facilitator scripts become one coherent play surface.
Teams make decisions under visible time, budget, role, and uncertainty constraints. Illegal moves teach instead of just blocking play.
Choices, captures, forecasts, and card movements become concrete evidence for a sales follow-up, pilot proposal, or board conversation.
The differentiator is not another AI services menu. It is a repeatable ability to turn ambiguous business change into a short game people can play, remember, and buy.
RoleShock-style games help a prospect feel the operational pain, then naturally ask how the intervention changes the economics.
Now-style hunts move past generic AI enthusiasm by collecting repeated, situated moments where people actually see a bottleneck.
Boards and executive teams can test decisions before the real meeting, with uncertainty and accountability represented as mechanics.
Training works better when the lesson is discovered in play, then translated into a debrief, operating rule, or team habit.
Some projects remain useful, but not as the headline offer. They become mechanics, research inputs, debrief tools, or specialist prototypes behind the simulation business.
Brand monitoring and persona panels become game ingredients: market signals, stakeholder reactions, synthetic customers, and debrief evidence.
Operational tools can supply scenarios, sample data, and mechanics for account, asset, and workflow simulations without carrying the whole company pitch.
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, but the main banner becomes experiential corporate simulation.
Industrial Linguistics has worked across banks, technology companies, government, education, retail, professional services, and high-change operating environments.
The useful first project is usually a short game for one sales motion, executive workshop, board question, or AI adoption bottleneck.