How we engage.

Six formats, one discipline: rigorously testing the assumptions a strategy is resting on. The format changes with the stakes, the timeline, and the audience - the standard does not.

Every engagement begins from the same question: what would have to be true for this decision to be the right one? Dr Dan Epstein has designed 130+ bespoke scenarios across defence, financial services, technology, consumer goods and government, and they have taught him the shapes that question most often takes. The six formats below are those shapes, sized from a single day to a standing advisory retainer.

Exercises designed and delivered for teams at Mars, ALLFED, Culture Amp, Accenture, Monash University, the Australian Government and the Victorian Government. See how an exercise comes together - two food-system wargames delivered for ALLFED →

Workshops

Half / full day

Tabletop exercises that stress-test a strategy against the shocks your plan does not model.

A$12-25k

Decision War Room

Report + readout

A counterfactual wargame of the decision you are about to make, played on our own engine with AI players and refereed by Dr Dan Epstein. No day of your calendar. A written report and a board-ready readout.

A$15-25k

Strategy Sprints

Fixed-scope engagement

Two weeks of principal-led work on one consequential question.

A$9k fixed

Speaking

Keynote / event

Keynotes and working sessions on strategy under uncertainty.

From A$3.5k

Masterminds

Six-month cohort

Curated peer cohorts for leaders who have run out of people inside the building to challenge them.

By invitation

1:1 Coaching

Private retainer

Confidential counsel for the decisions you cannot yet put in writing.

By referral

Not sure which shape fits?

Thirty minutes with Dr Dan Epstein - the person who will design and run your exercise. Describe the decision you are facing and get an honest read on the right format. No pitch.

Book a discovery call