Tools: AI-assisted web design, rapid prototyping, gamified learning
Audience: Startup Founders & Non-Technical Executives
Challenge: Executives often view security as a cost center. SecureTech (public name withheld), an AI consultancy, needed to demonstrate the strategic value of hiring human AI leadership over simply buying more software.
Solution: A turn-based resource management game where users act as a CISO of a tech startup, balancing a limited budget against a rising risk score.
Key Features:
Real-time budget/risk updates that show the diminishing returns of panic-buying firewalls vs. the strategic hiring of a fractional vCISO like SecureTech.
Branching consequences that reveal qualitative outcomes where skipping audits for speed results in penalities for allowing shadow AI.
Color-coded risk levels (Red/Green) trigger immediate visual feedback.
Why Code-Based? Coding the logic allowed for a functional sales-enablement tool that lets potential clients fail safely and realize the need for hiring SecureTech as their AI consultant before the first sales call.
SecureTech added this simulation to a LinkedIn post to advertise and generate registration for a complimentary prospective customer webinar.