Notes from the case method's next chapter
Writing on what happens when case studies become playable — honest comparisons, worked examples you can actually play, and lessons from building the platform.
What actually makes something a case?
The case method began with legal disputes, not companies. Five things every real case has — and why your next job interview, pricing decision or difficult conversation already passes the test.
Under the bonnetWhat does an AI case simulation actually cost to run?
Measured figures from a real case, not estimates: what one simulation and its debrief cost per learner, why the speech bill is bigger than the model bill, and the change that takes a replay to zero.
Before you upload anythingCan you turn someone else’s case study into a simulation?
Your teaching licence lets you distribute a case to your class. Turning it into an interactive experience is a different act, and most licences are silent on it. The questions to ask, and who to ask them of.
On the case methodWhy a simulation without a debrief teaches almost nothing
The discussion has always been the lesson, not the reading. Three tests for whether a platform actually teaches — starting with playing it badly on purpose and reading what it says.
ComparisonThe best platforms for turning case studies into simulations (2026)
LiveCase, Forio, StratX, INSEAD, building your own — and us. What each platform is for, side by side, from people who build one of them.
The case method, playedOne client crisis, five ways to train on it
A fictional law firm misses its biggest client's filing deadline. The same facts become an animated story, a crisis inbox, a boardroom, a five o'clock call and a courtroom — and each one teaches something different.