Business simulations + assessments
Judgment starts where knowledge stops.
Capsim's business simulations and assessments create the conditions where judgment is built under pressure and every decision becomes evidence of who's ready.
Trusted in the classroom and across the enterprise
Raise price to protect margin?
Or hold to win share?
Raise price to protect margin?
Or hold to win share?
- Unit costsRising
- Demand signalSoftening
- Competitor responseUnknown
Avery commits.
Consequences across rounds
Production R&D Finance Raised $28 → $30 ↑Contribution margin to 34% ↓Market share to 14% ↑Inventory to $1.2M R3 | R4 R4 inherits every callAvery Chen
Round 3 of 8 · Pricing Call
Decision: raised price to $30
Outcome: demand came in soft
- Makes tradeoffs under uncertaintyobserved
- Anticipates downstream effectsdeveloping
Built for business schools and corporate L&D.
Capsim works two ways. Head to the side that fits how you develop people.
Develop students who can make the call, and prove they're ready.
Simulations and assessments that turn course-by-course knowledge into the business judgment employers hire for.
Explore Business Education → Corporate L&DTurn functional experts into enterprise leaders. Know who's ready.
Leadership programs and readiness assessment that turn functional experts into enterprise-minded leaders.
Explore Corporate L&D →Student with an Industry ID? Register →
2M+
learners have made the call.
The gap
AI made knowing cheap.Judgment is still earned.
For generations, knowing the material was the hard part. Now AI produces a polished answer in seconds. The value moved to what you do with it: the judgment to make the call and live with the consequences.
A lecture
Explains the decision.
KnowingA case study
Debates it, after the fact.
KnowingAI
Generates a polished answer in seconds.
KnowingA simulation
Makes you decide, then live with what you decided.
How judgment gets built
Content builds knowledge. Conditions build judgment.
Judgment isn't taught. It's earned under three conditions.
Illustrative example
Avery is three rounds into running a simulated company. Follow one pricing call through all three conditions.
Made without certainty.
No right answer, just incomplete information and competitors whose moves stay hidden. Avery sets the price and commits. The round won't wait.
Decide now. The information won't get better.
Felt across the whole business.
No lever moves alone. The price change ripples into demand, plant utilization, margin, and inventory, across business functions.
One lever. The whole company reacts.
Carried into every round after.
No reset. Inventory and margin carry forward. Avery lives with the consequences of the call, round after round.
Round 3's call is still shaping Round 8. No reset between rounds.
From judgment to readiness
Judgment was invisible. Now it's evidence.
The three conditions force the judgment. Evidence captures the decisions that reveal it. Most business simulations tell you what happened. Capsim measures the judgment behind those decisions, turning them into evidence you can evaluate and map to the competencies you care about. That evidence is what ready means here: they can make the call, and you can prove it.
Avery Chen
Illustrative example, not real data.
Proof
Trusted to build readiness at scale. And to prove it.
Across the enterprise
11 GM appointments
Diageo's Horizons program develops functional experts into GM-ready enterprise leaders, building its general-manager pipeline from within.
Technical → strategic
Microsoft turns deep technical experts into leaders who think across the whole business, 95% called the experience relevant to their work.
Decisions → the P&L
Lilly's manufacturing teams learned to see how their frontline calls connect to strategy and the financial picture.
In the classroom
5× the enrollment
Dr. Hakim Meshreki put first-year students inside a real business. Enrollment climbed from 90 to 455, and students come back after class to ask what they'd do differently.
Business-ready, any major
Geoff Malleck gives humanities students real business acumen, "less strategy from a textbook, more get-your-hands-dirty."
1,000+ students
Rita Cossa scaled Capsim across three online courses, turning distributed students into decision-makers who connect theory to consequence.
What Capsim makes
Simulations that build judgment. Assessments that prove it.
Business simulations put people inside the whole company. Inbox simulations put them in a role, one decision at a time. Assessments turn those decisions into evidence. The same engines run a capstone course or a leadership program.
For higher education
Business Simulations
Run a whole company across multiple rounds, where every decision ripples across the business.
Explore business simulations → Builds decision skillsInbox Simulations
Step into a role and work a realistic inbox of competing demands, one decision at a time.
Explore inbox simulations → Proves readinessAssessments
Turn the decisions people make into validated, comparable evidence of what they can do.
Explore assessments →For corporate L&D
Leadership Accelerator
Your leaders run a business together under pressure, in a facilitated cohort program shaped to your strategy.
Explore the Accelerator → Measures readinessLeadership Assessment
A validated assessment each leader takes individually, turning their decisions into readiness evidence at scale.
Explore the Assessment →Build judgment. Prove readiness.
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