Changelog

The reporting periods now run P0 to P4 and start where the game does. A report was labelled with the round that produced it rather than the position it describes, so the archive offered a "P-1" that does not exist and every other reading sat one period behind the name on it. The period before P0 is a calculation that produces the books you inherit, and it is not a period you report on.

The takeover briefing no longer tells you what happens later. It dated the municipal tender, the export market, the cargo bike's series start and the consultants, and then named the one round the tender could be won in. All of that arrives in the news, one quarter at a time, the way it would. The briefing describes the works you are handed, and it has its own place at the top of the page's contents.

The rail's periods line reads "Period 0 of 4" again, without the arrow.

Buying a manufacturing hall opens the same dialog every other addition in the app opens, so the order is confirmed rather than typed into the sheet, and Cancel really cancels. What stays on the sheet is the register of halls you own, a line naming what the round is buying, and the button.

A market opening or a product joining the range is marked in the highlighter yellow rather than by a thin outline. On a sheet of sixty fields read against a clock, the one row that is new has to be the one you see.

The consultants' forecast is available from the second period and is simply not there before it. It used to show a price and an enabled button for two periods while the server refused the purchase.

The business simulation now begins with a takeover. You inherit a bicycle works from a founding team that has left, read a detailed briefing on the plant, the workforce, the products and the markets, and start from a period 0 that is a real position with real books rather than an empty opening balance. Periods are counted from 0, and a decision sheet is headed by the two it runs between, "P0 to P1".

Field sales are people rather than money. Each market carries a target change in sales people instead of a sales force budget, and a requisition is not certain to be filled: the labour market decides how much of it arrives. Development engineers are hired the same way.

Procurement is one assembly kit per product instead of a parts catalogue. A kit is everything one bicycle is built from, bought as one item, and it gets cheaper two ways: larger order volumes reach published price tiers, and a higher development index takes more off every unit. The price for the volume you have typed is shown beside the field before you commit.

The plant is manufacturing buildings rather than production lines. There are two, a small hall and a large one, and the large one costs less per bike stand on both the purchase and the upkeep. A city bike occupies one stand, a cargo bike two. Each building carries its own maintenance budget, which decides how much of its capacity is actually available, and it is written off in equal parts over its life.

Product development has two levers and one reading. Design and safety is driven by the engineers on the payroll, connectivity and software by a budget per product, and a product's development index is the mean of the two. Rework is tied to design and safety, so neglecting it shows up as defects.

The municipal tender was rewritten. It runs for the cargo bike from period 2, a bid wins only at or below your own current list price for that bike, and only a cargo bike whose development index has reached 100 can win at all. What you win is a contract delivered from stock at the next close, before wholesale and retail, and units your stock cannot cover simply lapse. There is no fine.

Wholesale takes every product, at the trade's own published price and volume per product.

Social security and benefits are now a decision: a percentage of wages, 40 to begin with, never below 37, and it can move at most 3 points in a round. Pay above the market, voluntary benefits and the pension provision are gone, and so is the compensation mechanic they hung on.

Loans run to term. A short-term loan costs 8 percent per period and is settled in full at the next close; a long-term loan costs 7 percent and runs for ten periods in equal instalments. Both rates are on the instructor's parameters sheet. Buying and selling securities is gone.

Every money field carries its currency symbol as an uneditable part of the field, and every number groups its thousands as you type, in your own language's format.

Product configuration, relaunches, rationalization, selling production lines and the separate people section are gone. Configuration in particular made two companies incomparable, which is the opposite of what a seminar needs.

The launch scenario is "New management", four decision rounds from period 0 to period 4. The cargo bike and the municipal tender both arrive in period 2, which is the only period a tender can still be won and served inside four rounds. The export market opens in period 3 behind a decision to enter it, and a planning forecast can be bought from period 2. Existing games and the older scenarios were removed with this change.

Every figure in the product now carries its established name. Cost of goods sold counts the units delivered rather than the units produced, the return is measured against capital employed, the staffing pools are cost centers, and the crawler crawls where it used to poll, sweep and pass. German moved with it, so a figure has one name in each language.

Explanations say the same things in fewer words. The longest of them spent a paragraph on a metaphor before reaching the point; they now open with the point, and no fact was dropped on the way.

One action reads the same everywhere. A delete that asks you to type a name back says so the same way in every dialog, and the button that carries it out reads "Delete permanently" throughout instead of "Delete" in some places and something else in others.

Subcontracting a cargo bike costs what it should. Its price band still belonged to the trekking bike the cargo bike replaced, and it sat below the cargo bike's material cost alone, so buying beat building at every volume and make-or-buy had one answer. The band now carries the same premium over in-house cost that the city bike's does.

Dates in the artifact and claim lists now read as ages, in one short form used everywhere you read a span: "4d ago", "3h ago", "12m". The exact date is on hover, and anything older than a month keeps the date, because a four-hundred-day span is easier to read as a date. The cockpit countdown, its reminder and the reminder picker stay spelled out, because watching a deadline or choosing a value needs the exact figure.

A claim shows how long it has left, "in 118d", with the date on hover, instead of printing both.

The filter dropdowns now show their actual default. An untouched filter shows every box ticked, which is what it always meant; the artifact list's source filter used to say "All sources" over four empty boxes while leaving out a fifth kind entirely.

Every dropdown in the app now opens the same distance below the control that opens it, on the same surface, with its options starting exactly where the control's own text starts. A tick sits at the end of a row rather than in front of it, so a list of several choices reads down the same edge as a list of one.

Long pickers are searchable. The scheduler's timezone list, the company picker behind a new source, and the curve catalog's hundred roles all take a search field inside the popup instead of a scrollbar.

Links that leave the site all carry the arrow that says so. It was on five of them and missing from the rest, and it now scales with the text it marks instead of overshadowing the smallest text. A link that stands on its own no longer underlines at rest as well: the arrow says it once, and the underline arrives on hover like every other standalone link in the app.

The map's OpenStreetMap credit is the name alone now, in the corner of the map. It read "Locations ©", which claimed OpenStreetMap holds copyright in our locations when what we do is geocode our own list against their data; the precise statement, naming Nominatim and the license, is on the methodology page.

A company's own website pages are held out by the source filter and by nothing else: a market opens with Website unticked, and ticking it brings them in. A company's own page opens with them already in view.

The artifact list names its source rather than the host it landed on, so a page crawled from a company's own site reads "NVIDIA website" instead of "boards.greenhouse.io". It still opens the article.

The date fields across the register have a calendar of their own, in the app's own language and format rather than the browser's.

The company editor lists every market, so a company can be added to one, moved between roles or taken out through the same control. Adding was previously behind a button that never appeared.

The company page's financials read as a statement: figures down the side, years across the top, with the provider and when it was read in one line underneath. A figure a provider misfiled can now be removed in the editor.

A market's company table drops the category column, which was blank for every company that is not a supplier, and gives the publisher and artifact counts a column each. The category is on the company page and is a filter on the table.

Small repairs across the register: company links go straight to the readable address instead of bouncing through a redirect, the empty states read the same everywhere, and the editor no longer repeats each section's heading inside it.

Charts that draw a whole field of companies now give each one its own color. In the debrief the race, the strategy map, the standings and the price response all agree, so the company leading the race is the same color everywhere, and your own is marked with a highlighter under its line rather than by being the only dark one. The eight colors are checked against red-green and blue-yellow color blindness by a test that simulates each of them and measures every pair, so there is one palette and nothing to configure.

The circles that show who is here draw from the same eight colors. The eight they used before were picked by eye and two of their pairs were the ones red-green color blindness collapses.

Printing a page now prints the light theme, whichever theme is on screen. It used to print white text onto white paper for anyone who had never touched the toggle.

Opening a source in the intake list now shows its crawl as a picture. The sections of the site, or its pages where there are few of them, each drawn as a bar filled with how much of it we hold: solid for what we read, an outline for what is still to fetch, faint for the excluded pages, and a red edge for the ones that failed.

The rest of that panel was tidied up. The address no longer appears twice, the interval box shows the default it falls back to instead of sitting empty, Crawl now sits with the interval it overrides for one run, no two buttons read Cancel any more, deleting a source asks once in place rather than in a dialog, and a source is switched on or off with one press rather than a switch that waited for Save.

The way to a page's other view now sits in one place, top right of the headline. Editing a company or a market puts the way back exactly where the Edit button was, and the underlined link that used to float under the introduction is gone. In the business simulation the switch between the player and the instructor view sits in that same spot, and the instructor view now offers a way back. The button that takes you into a view is filled and the one that brings you back is an outline, so a glance at it tells you where you are.

The sidebar on the company and market editors stopped repeating the form. It says when the record was added, when it was last saved and how much the register holds on it, instead of printing back the country, the city and the domain you are typing.

Every page now declares its title and sections once, and the loading frames draw the real headings instead of gray placeholders, on the public pages too. The engine page's health check now appears in its table of contents, the account deletion heading is red from the first frame, and the edit pages name every section while their record loads.

Links into a publication's sections resolve before the page finishes loading, and the engine and market figures hold their frames and headings while their data arrives.

The content editors keep their page frame steady now: the outline column and its scroll position survive the moment the draft finishes loading instead of being rebuilt around it.

The outline on the right begins level with a page's introduction, one shared start line across the platform. Research publications carry it too, with the article's own headings, and the engine page joined the common shape: its inspector reads below the graph now instead of beside it, so the graph keeps the reading width every figure uses.

Every page now carries a table of contents on the right: the sections you are reading, with the current one marked as you scroll. That includes the public pages, from the privacy notice to this changelog, whose outline groups by month; on a phone the same outline lives in the menu. Only the home page and the sign-in page go without.

Small things set right: create buttons sit in the table's own toolbar row, failed sources mark their timestamp red instead of growing a label, sort arrows appear on hover rather than on every header, panel buttons follow one pattern (one filled Save, text Cancel, red Delete), and deleting a product or a team now asks you to type its name first.

Adding data works the same way everywhere now. Every list that grows a new record, from markets and companies to sources, claims, privacy requests, products, teams and invitations, offers one button that opens a dialog, where before some pages kept permanent form boxes and others appended fields to the page. The editors keep their in-place drafts, which autosave as you type.

A company is one source now, not two. Its website and its job board are read by the same source, each on its own clock, so the intake list shows each company once and one interval governs the whole channel.

The intake list is searchable, filterable by kind and paged, because it grew from a dozen sources to one per company. Sorting by name, text held or last crawl is in the address, so a view can be sent to somebody.

The crawler and model settings say what they are for. The crawler's dials are grouped by the question they answer, its switches read as what they turn on and take effect the moment they are flipped, and each pipeline step now shows its batch, its token budget, its confidence band and its prompt together, one step at a time, instead of eight identical prompt boxes down the page.

Both halves of a job ad are now classified, not just one. A requirement says what it asks for (a skill, a body of knowledge, a qualification, experience, a language) and a responsibility says what kind of work it is (build, operate, analyze, lead, coordinate, govern, commercial), so two companies can be compared on the shape of the work and not only on its wording.

The vocabulary behind those items is inspectable and correctable: the sources page lists every canonical responsibility and requirement with how many companies stand on it, and giving one item the wording of another merges the two.

What companies hire for is one shared vocabulary now. Every ad's responsibilities and requirements are condensed once, right after reading, into short English items connected to the position, so two companies asking for the same skill share one entry and can be compared on it.

A company page's facts moved into the sidebar. Market and role sit in its metadata, and the domain there is the link out to the company; the reading column keeps the reading.

A company page shows what the company is hiring for. Positions are read from the company's own job board, with the responsibilities and requirements each ad lists, and they stay on record after an ad closes, so how a team changed is something you can read rather than remember.

Reported figures sit on the company page: revenue, income, headcount and more, read from official filings and finance sources, each with where it was read and when.

The crawler may now propose people from a company's own team pages, and every one of them waits for a human. Nothing about a person is confirmed by a machine, and the privacy notice says what is recorded and that nobody is rated.

Documents are called artifacts now. The word was doing two jobs: the files you upload to build a strategy are documents, and so were the crawled pages, articles and filings the intelligence ledger is built on. The second one gives the word up. The Documents page is Artifacts, and its address moved with it, so an old link to it no longer opens.

The crawler pauses in two halves now. Fetching and drafting stop separately, so you can stop what the model costs while the crawl keeps collecting, or stop fetching and let the backlog drain.

The sources page says what the crawl is accumulating: the text held on disk and every token the pipeline has spent. An opened run says what it added.

Workspace pages no longer clear what you have half typed a few seconds after they open. A setting mid-edit, or a switch you just flipped, stays where you put it.

Titles and stored text read the way the page did. Where a crawled page wrote a dash or an umlaut in HTML's own escaped form, it was kept and shown in that form, so a German page read Türen where it said Türen. Everything already held has been repaired, and what arrives now is read correctly on the way in.

A company records the people who hold posts at it. Names, roles and the years they held them are typed by a person in the company's editor, and they share the register the crawler's bylines already write to, so one erasure reaches a name however we came to hold it. Companies are rated, people are only recorded.

Every registered company's own website is a source of its own now, so what a company says about itself is read alongside what the press says about it.

Drafts no longer wait behind the crawl. Extraction runs on its own lane, so claims, relationships and products appear while pages are still being fetched.

Data protection requests have a queue. Somebody asking to be removed is handled from the privacy page, answered by mail, and closed, and closing a request lets go of who it was about.

Removing a name reaches the text it is hiding in, not just the row that holds it. The name is overwritten wherever it was stored, dropped from the register, and kept from being taken in again. This cannot be undone.

The crawler records the author a feed already names, so a citation can say who wrote the piece behind it. There is no page that lists a person, no way to search by one, and no rating of anybody.

The privacy notice says plainly that we hold names we were not given, and asking to be removed is an address you write to rather than a form to fill in.

A market lists its companies as a table you can search and page, and the feed's filters take several sources at once, the way the tables already did.

Everything the crawler has brought in is browsable in one index, searchable by title, address or domain and narrowable to a single source.

The long tables sort, filter and page from the address, so the view you are looking at is a link you can send to somebody.

The sources list is a table now, led by the switch that turns a source on, with a countdown to each source's next crawl and the result of its last run.

Links underline the way the rest of the app does: a link inside a sentence is underlined at rest, one standing on its own underlines when you point at it.

A company page only reads now. Filing a claim and resolving one moved into the company's editor, where the rest of the admin work already lives, so the ledger is a ledger rather than a form with rows around it. An administrator gets one link into the editor instead of a control in every row.

A company is edited on its own page now, not inside the companies table. The table went back to being a table: a name that opens the company, its markets, its role in each, how often it has been mentioned, and a link to the editor. Everything that was crammed into the row, the facts, the aliases, the websites and the products, has room to be read.

A company's own website is a link now. It sits under the company's markets on its page, with the arrow that marks a way off the site, and the addresses of its crawled pages and its sources open the same way.

A company page now lists the pages of that company's own website the crawler has read. Each one opens the page as we read it, with the live address beside it, so a claim drawn from a company's own words can be checked against them.

A company's own website pages no longer count as news. The market feed leaves them out unless you pick Website in the source filter, the companies table ranks by what was written about a company rather than by how big its website is, and a market's documents this week means press, not one crawl.

Crawling a company's site shows its work. Each source says how many of its pages have been read, how many are still to go and how many were excluded, and a site with no sitemap says that too, since that is why it reads a single page. A run in progress opens to a step for finding pages, and the queue says how many pages a source has left before its next crawl.

Source links now open the page itself. Every citation, in the feed, on a company page, in the graph and in the review queue, leads to the document with its stored text, the companies it mentions and where it came from, and the original address sits one click further. A page a company published about itself is readable by everyone signed in, everything else by administrators.

The crawler keeps the text of every page it fetches for a set window and then drops it, unless a claim, a relationship or a product cites the document, in which case it is kept for as long as the citation stands. The methodology page says so in full, and administrators set the window on the sources page.

The review page is the one stop for every open machine decision now. Drafted products from every company wait there beside the claims and relationships, and a headquarters the geocoder could only place by city arrives as a suggestion: confirm it and its pin reads solid, dismiss it and the company returns to the middle of its country and is never quietly placed there again.

The market page's graph and map zoom and pan now. Scroll or pinch to zoom where the cursor is, drag to move around, and double-click or press reset to come back to the whole picture. Marks hold their size as you zoom, so companies sharing a city separate instead of shrinking.

The intelligence pages carry a right rail now: the facts each page is relative to, then its sections as an outline that marks the one being read. On a phone the rail sits in the navigation drawer.

Every crawler run opens up now. Its steps read as a strip with the running one carrying its progress, each step says how long it took, what it spent and what it produced, and a run that failed keeps the figures it had reached. The yield column explains how a yield is counted.

Every watched company now carries the city of its headquarters, and the map places them there. Administrators locate the whole registry from the companies page in one press, a city at a time, and a company that needs its exact address still has its own locate button.

Companies carry their own websites as sources now. Administrators add a page right in the company editor, the crawler re-reads it on its own schedule and notices when the content changed, and any source can be given its own crawl interval.

Companies now list their products. The pipeline reads them off a company's own website, records the unambiguous ones by itself and leaves only the doubtful ones for a person to confirm, edit or dismiss in the company editor. Products can be added by hand too, and every confirmed one appears on the company page.

Every market page carries a world map. Each member company sits at its headquarters with the day and night line drawn live across it, hovering a pin names the company and its role, and clicking one opens it. Administrators record a headquarters city per company and locate it with one click; companies without exact coordinates still appear in the middle of their country.

The crawler's activity table reads short runs to the millisecond, says nothing new whenever a run created nothing, and finished pipeline runs state what they adjudicated and drafted. The companies table is searchable and splits markets from roles, the watched markets read as one table with their pulse, and the editors open as clean full-width panels.

The organization page shows model usage per team now: the tokens spent on strategy extraction and scoring, exact and summed, in the same scope the team list already uses. The crawler records what each pipeline run spends and reads it out in the activity table's yield.

Company management has its own page. The companies table lists every company across all markets with its memberships and mentions, expanding into the full editor with aliases and delete, while the markets page keeps who belongs where in which role, edited right in its members table. The crawler's activity reads as one table with the upcoming crawls on top and recent runs below.

The intelligence pipeline runs on a faster paid model now, and platform admins steer it entirely from the sources page. The prompts behind mention checks, claim drafts and relationship drafts are editable with documented placeholders, each step has its own token budget, and every model call goes only to providers with zero data retention.

A company can belong to several markets now, with its own role in each. Every company has one page listing its markets, old company and registry links redirect, and the admin registry is now called markets, where companies are added to markets, moved and re-roled.

The sources page shows the crawler working, live. An activity section lists what is running with step and progress, what is waiting, what comes up next and how recent runs went, including readable failure reasons instead of a bare error. Crawl now queues the source and the page follows along in real time, and a stuck feed backs off on its own instead of failing every interval.

Administrators run Intelligence entirely from the workspace now. A registry page manages markets with their matching vocabulary and every company with its aliases and ambiguity flags, and a sources page manages the sources and the crawler itself, including pausing it, its crawl intervals, its batch sizes and its model.

Intelligence is organized by market now. The landing page lists every watched market with its pulse, each market has its own page carrying the deadlines, the relationship graph and a shorter feed of ten with more on request, and the graph sits in a proper frame, sizes itself correctly and deselects when you click empty space. Old company links keep working.

Companies now carry a follow-through record: the weighted share of their resolved claims that came true, with slip, per-category detail and a hard rule that no figure appears before five claims have resolved. The methodology page states how every number is computed and how a named company can dispute any data point.

The market is now a graph: who supplies, deploys, funds and owns whom, drawn from the registry, with every line citing the documents that back it. Select a company or a line to see its evidence; drafted relationships from fresh documents wait in the review queue.

Every watched company now has its own page: what it has publicly claimed, each claim with a deadline and resolution criteria fixed in advance, how past claims turned out, and the company's slice of the feed. The pipeline drafts new claims from fresh documents for review, and the feed page lists the deadlines coming due.

Intelligence is live in the workspace, starting with humanoid robotics. A feed gathers press, global news and SEC filings, ties every document to the makers and suppliers it mentions, and can be narrowed to one company or one source. The pipeline judges the obvious matches itself; the doubtful ones wait for a human.

The home page headline now names, one at a time, what a company is up against this year, then settles on its own line. It holds still for readers whose system asks for less motion.

The home page now speaks to the reader the headline addresses. It says who the products are for in terms of the pressure a company is under rather than the industry it sits in, and the emerging frontiers now say plainly that they are where the data and the research come from, and what that brings to your own market.

The research section says plainly who we work with, the answer about where the data comes from is shorter, and the answer about whether your data is safe now adds what the section above it does not already promise.

A workspace page opened directly or reloaded arrives complete. Its navigation, its lists and the page's own content are all in the first thing drawn.

Nothing moves for a reader whose system asks for reduced motion. Panels, tooltips, notifications and the mobile sheet appear and go at the same moments, without growing or sliding into place.

Workspace pages draw their headings, the rules under them and the outline of the rows straight away, then fill them in as the data arrives.

German hyphenation is more restrained across the site. A long compound still breaks at its seam where a narrow column needs the room, ordinary words stay whole, and a headline keeps every word intact.

Selecting text inverts it, so a passage you have marked is unmistakable in either design.

The management game is now the business simulation, in English throughout the product. It lives at /workspace/business-simulation, so a link to the old address will not lead there any more.

The home page leads with what the work is for: strategy that holds up in turbulent markets, the same question our research asks.

The home page says it more plainly. We challenge and develop your strategy, our products keep drawing on the market data we collect, and each one names what it is for: navigating uncertainty, mastering market complexity, reading markets that stay opaque. The questions at the foot of the page answer in the same words, and say that business schools and universities run the same business simulations with their own cohorts.

The last question on the home page carries an address, contact@techtropy.com, for a business simulation built around your own industry.

A shared link now shows a card with our signal band sweeping behind the headline, over a description that says what we make: software for companies navigating uncertainty and complexity.

The research page and the legal pages describe themselves in German as well as English.

The home page reads as one story: the products first, each tile carrying a drawing of what it does, then the frontiers, our research and the people behind it. Rest the pointer on a tile and it picks out its subject, and a band of fine yellow curves drifts behind the opening.

The home page speaks plainly. It says products rather than software services, data rather than telemetry, and the note on sovereignty comes down to the one promise that counts: your data never leaves the European Union. It names dataforest, who run our servers in Germany, and the link into the product says Open the workspace.

Brand assets moved from the top navigation into the footer and live at /brand-assets. The old address still takes you there.

A training game belongs to its team, with a switch to share it with the whole organization. Whether a game can be watched is the host's call: those without a seat can ask, and the host answers from the notification itself.

Every running game shows how long the round has been open, instructors pause, resume and reset it, and deadline reminders reach players before a period closes. The play timer is set in one place now, the Parameters.

The instructor view shows the room the way the cockpit does, with presence circles for every seat and a team overview carrying each team's lock-in state. A locked game holds its player view for everyone, and hands instructors the way over to their own.

Controls behave alike across the site: settings that act the moment you flip them are switches, radio buttons are round, and the period selector walks with the arrow keys. Team management explains a blocked action in a tooltip, and the invite field suggests members as you type.

Every scrollable region draws its own hairline scrollbar instead of the browser's standing bar, the sidebar outline keeps the section you are reading centered, and the footer keeps its distance on short windows.

Two game modes, named for what they are for: Seminar, where the teams of a class compete under an instructor, and Training, where one company plays against AI corporations. A training game no longer asks for a team.

In seminar games the sign-off says what it does: you lock your decisions in and can unlock them while other teams are still deciding. When the last team locks in, the game holds itself for the instructor.

Instructors get a Parameters section covering the game's name, length, timers, the scenario's timeline and the industry's public facts. They can correct any team's sheet in its stead, and curate which readings the debrief shows.

The cockpit sidebar shows the room in seminar games, teammates' avatars sit on the fields they hold, and freshly unlocked decisions wear the selection yellow.

Market intelligence opens with a map carrying the numbers: revenue, units sold, DB I and share as tabs, each region shaded by its value. Every market has its own mark and short name, and the editors explain their fields where the questions arise.

The games hub is one list, a single button creates a game of any mode, and the sidebar lists your strategies and games directly under their pages.

Strategy work runs in rounds. Every challenge grades all seven principles again and keeps the round, so a strategy shows how it improves. Principles below the threshold are marked for action and can be confirmed or reopened by hand.

The strategy sections carry the product names, Developer working a strategy out and Challenger grading it, and the page you play a game on is the cockpit.

The income statement draws itself as a flow: revenue fans in from the markets that earned it, every cost branches off where it is booked, and a period that lost money enters its shortfall as a hollow dashed ribbon.

Companies compare on one measure, every income statement rescaled to its own revenue, so cost structures compare across sizes. The debrief's race chart runs on cumulative net income, equity and revenue as well as share.

A completed game opens its books, with every company's decision sheet and statements beside the standings. Instructors also read one company across the whole game, periods as columns.

A period can be planned as often as it is worth paying for. Each plan runs your drafted sheet through the market engine and is kept beside the others, and a closed period reads back against the plans bought for it. Market research answers the period it is ordered on.

Numbers are written the way the reader writes them, German 1.234.567 € against English €1,234,567. Tables measure their columns alike, totals are ruled off, and a period is signed off after the analysis rather than before it.

The key figures say which period they show and carry equity from the first day, with the opening balance sheet directly beneath them.

Money reads the same everywhere it appears: forecasts quote the percent the key figures report, negative amounts lead with their sign, and figures that have to be checked against each other are written out in full.

Running out of stock costs a sale to somebody. Demand a sold-out company cannot serve looks for another supplier in the same period instead of disappearing.

A technology position has to be held. Technology, ecology, value analysis, process and environmental standing slip a little every period unless funded, and in the bicycle industry a higher technology index lifts material cost per unit.

The pull of a competitive move no longer depends on how many teams are in the room, and diversification counts the product-market cells a company actually earned in.

A game opens with a balance sheet, the position the first period is then measured against. Effect curves are checked against their role when content is published, and price and advertising response can be authored per product.

Strategy has two products, Challenger and Developer, and both begin with your documents: one grades a strategy against the seven principles with the reasoning behind every score, the other works one out. A batch upload comes back as separate strategies, each named, summarized and routed.

The market engine diagram explains itself. Pick a value and it reports the terms it was made of, selecting a node pushes everything unrelated into the background, and the side panel lists what that node reads from and feeds.

Platform admins can open the market engine as an interactive diagram: every decision, effect curve and calculation of a period as a connected node, run in memory on drafted content. Tweaks re-simulate instantly and save back to the draft, and the wiring comes from the engine itself, so the picture and the simulation cannot disagree.

The game clock speaks of periods instead of quarters. New games start at four, and every scenario names the shortest game it plays well at.

Instructors can hold the room, by hand or with a play timer that locks the period when time runs out.

Companies can order market research on their competitors' published statements, and buy a planning forecast run through the real market engine, both at a public fee.

The market engine grew a full model on every side, from sales force and ecology R&D through absenteeism and defect rates to credit rating, share price and bulk channels, bringing the editor's catalog to 104 effect curves. Running games keep the rules they started with.

The business simulations got a market to run: a mid-size German bicycle manufacturer with concrete production lines, a city and a trekking bike, a domestic and an EU market, and a sealed-bid municipal tender.

Complexity grows period by period. The first is about price, marketing and volume, and each later period reveals new decisions, arriving highlighted on the sheet.

Every game runs on an authored scenario, either a baseline season or a Covid cycle whose lockdown boom, shortages and interest turnaround arrive as briefings period by period.

Platform administrators get an editor for the games themselves, with numbered publishes any version can be restored from, a test drive before anything ships, and a health check holding a draft to the same invariants as live content.

Instructors got their own view of every game, cohort games run as a level classroom competition, and team leadership can be handed on or stepped back from.

Games end with a real debrief: final standings by cumulative net income, every company's share race on one scale, and a strategy map positioning each company by price and earned share.

The report archive tells each period's full story, with the decisions that produced it alongside and every number downloadable as CSV.

The reports draw their numbers: waterfalls walking revenue down to net income, delivery on one scale, per-period trend lines, and forecast runs as dots with P10, median and P90 marked.

You can see the whole room, seat by seat and company by company, and periods can run on a clock with instructor briefings posted between them.

Emails carry the look of the site, and the legal pages cover the whole workspace in plain language, hosted in Germany with no tracking or analytics.

Business simulations are here: teams run a company period by period against their cohort or AI corporations, deciding across Innovation, Operations, Commercial, Talent and Finance in a cockpit you share, with consulting forecasts, market intelligence and period reports in place of exact numbers.

The strategy outline nests one level deeper, each of a step's topics its own page.

Teammates' changes appear live, within about a second and without reloading: strategies, documents, step progress and team changes, with invitations you can accept on the spot.

You can see who is working alongside you, each person in a consistent color across the strategy list, the outline and the members list. More of the app is in German.

Organizations have teams: every new one starts with a default team, admins can create more, and leaders invite existing members. The strategy page works per team.

Opening a strategy starts a guided process, documents then development, validation and export, with an outline alongside to track your place.

Documents live inside a strategy: upload the files behind it, preview them and delete them.

Interactive demo charts replaced the under-development notices, and sample publications carry placeholder charts in the house style.

A changelog page lists what has changed by day, and the brand mark animates and downloads as an animated version.

New brand page and logo: the butterfly mark with a theme-aware favicon and a matching loading animation, plus the story behind the name and downloadable logo files.

A mobile navigation drawer, feedback inline with clearer notifications, and Analytics renamed to Intelligence.

Organizations with email invitations, and an editable display name in account settings.

A reworked home page, the research pages in English and German, and updated legal and privacy notices.