How a session works
One scenario, played live, start to finish. No branching quiz, no multiple choice — a situation that unfolds and a debrief that tells you what your behavior showed.
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A crisis is generated for you
Every session starts from a scenario built for that run: the situation, the people involved, the hidden facts and the timeline are assembled fresh. In the current scenario family you are the principal of a US middle school, and something is about to go wrong. You get a short briefing — role, context, and where to find the district guidelines — before you step in.
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You manage it live, on multiple channels
The console looks like a work tool, because that's what it simulates: message threads with staff, parents, your district office and the local press. People write to you in character and react to what you say. Some messages arrive on their own schedule — an interruption doesn't wait for you to be ready. Decisions surface with a countdown: you can commit, or let the timer expire. That choice is also data.
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Your behavior is evaluated — not just your words
At the end, the full session is reviewed against an anchored rubric: what you wrote, what you decided, and the process around it — whether you opened the guidelines before acting on them, how long you took under pressure, which decisions you left on the table. The evaluation cites specific moments with their exact time on the scenario clock.
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You get a diagnosis, not a report card
The debrief opens with your behavioral profile under pressure — the pattern, in plain language — and closes with growth moves: for each one, the moment it's anchored to, what a stronger move would have looked like, and a concrete “next time” you can actually try. Dimensions are reported as levels (Developing, Solid, Advanced), because the goal is progress, not a verdict.
Good to know
- · A session is self-contained and ends with the debrief; you can play again with a brand-new scenario.
- · Your messages are processed by an AI to run the scenario and the evaluation — don't enter real personal information.
- · This is a research prototype in private testing: access requires a key, and each unlock uses one of the key's sessions.