Tech Tempest®

An educational simulation by SHIFT127

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Tech Tempest®
Council · Blueprint · Forge · League
💼Merchant
🏛️ Team
Welcome to

Tech Tempest®

Eight civilisations. One contract.
Hudson Hanseatic Bank is choosing its partner.

Stuck or curious? Open the

Enter the code from your facilitator
Read it together. Then elect your council.
Your call

Elect Your Council

The Merchant always sits. Choose three more.

1 of 4

Who sits on the council?

A council of four. The Merchant always sits. Choose three more.

·
Council members
1 of 4 chosen
Spokesperson
💼 Merchant
How risk gets mitigated. When the Tempest hits, mitigating risk needs both the matching capability card AND a council member with the matching role. Choose your three with the storms in mind.

Appoint Your Merchant

One device records for the team. Which one?

${MERCHANT_GLYPH}
The Merchant speaks for the team
Their device records each decision and shows the card to your facilitator.
The Council

Your council has assembled

Recorded. Read the card to your facilitator.

Council recorded. Stand by for the bank's first brief.

When the bank is ready
Your Method
The Very Curious Human
Your brief is a moment in the world, not a question.
Find the question hiding underneath.
    Use your AI tools to reach an insight worth sharing.
    When the bank says go
    Athenian Assembly
    Opening Round
    PEOPLE
    ◎ Your task: find the question that matters most
    One of the big issues of our time
    Tap to reveal
    Show me the issue →
    The big issue
    Find the question that matters most 60 seconds to convince the bank.
    opens a decisionchallenges an assumptionrivals will miss it

    ✓ Ready. The bank will call you.

    Athenian Assembly
    Rivalry Round · vs ⚔️
    ◎ Your task: find the question that matters most
    Head to head
    Tap to reveal
    Show me the issue →
    The big issue
    Find the sharper question A new issue, and a rival on it. Only one wins the bank’s endorsement.
    opens a decisionchallenges an assumptionrivals will miss it

    ✓ Ready. The bank will call you.

    Athenian Assembly
    Shoulders of Giants
    PEOPLE
    A moment that changed everything
    Tap to reveal
    Reveal your moment →
    Your turning point
    Without [this pioneer], [their breakthrough] would not exist.
    Your Tribute Use AI to decode the clue: who they were, what they did, and one thing that will surprise the room. 60 seconds to present.

    ✓ Ready. The bank will call you.

    The Council is complete

    You found your seat at the table.
    • ${ACTI_GLYPH_1}
      Form your council
      You met your civilisation and chose your four roles.
    • ${ACTI_GLYPH_2}
      Find the real questions
      Two briefs decoded. The opening and the rivalry. You named the questions hidden inside.
    • ${ACTI_GLYPH_3}
      Honour your pioneer
      Your tribute is prepared. Sixty seconds. Clearly. Briefly. With conviction.

    The Blueprint is next: what to build, and why. The bank will call you.

    The Council is complete

    You found your seat at the table.
    • ${ACTI_GLYPH_1}
      Council assembled
      Civilisation met. Four roles chosen.
    • ${ACTI_GLYPH_2}
      Questions decoded
      Two briefs. The opening and the rivalry.
    • ${ACTI_GLYPH_3}
      Pioneer honoured
      Your tribute is prepared.
    Watch the front of the room. The bank is about to brief you on what comes next.
    Enter code to begin The Blueprint
    60 pts total effort · Ambitious build
    F: 60 HV: 0 XF: 0
    End of the Blueprint

    Before the Forge: the design challenge

    Your blueprint is locked. Now sell it to the bank in one image and one line.
    Enter code to begin The Forge
    The Forge

    Your starting point

    Your build is set. Now decide how to deliver it.

    Foundation
    60
    12 features
    High-value
    0
    0 features ·
    X-Factor
    0
    0 × 25 points
    Total effort
    0
    to deliver
    The baseline
    New York · Cloud-native · No discount. The most expensive way to deliver.
    Total effort
    points to deliver
    Velocity
    points per release
    5-year TCO
    list price
    Location
    Where your team works. Shapes cost, speed and risk.
    Infrastructure
    Cloud, hybrid or on-premise. How close to the bank.
    Scheduling
    Three releases. What ships first, and what waits.
    Discount
    A sharper price, paid for from your margin.
    The baseline will not win as it is. Use the four levers to find a better balance.
    Your call

    Choose your location

    Tap a city. Every choice trades cost, velocity and risk.

    City Cost Velocity Timezone Risk
    Your call

    Choose your infrastructure

    Where your code runs shapes cost, speed and risk for five years.

    Your combined configuration

    Location
    Infrastructure
    Cost Multiplier
    Effective Velocity
    R1 Fit
    Your call

    Schedule your releases

    R1 launches with the Foundation already in it (60 points). Simple features are the easiest to move.

    Effort allocation
    R1: 0 / 0R2: 0 / 0R3: 0 /
    R1 · Month 6
    R2 · Month 12
    R3 · Month 18+
    Assign features to see R1 loading.
    FeatureR1Month 6R2Month 12R3Month 18+
    Your call

    Your price

    Your price is the 5-year total cost of ownership: everything the bank pays over five years to build, maintain and run the platform. The bank has not shared its budget.

    Select your discount

    0%5%10%15%20%25%
    0%
    Discount from list price
    Your Bid Price · 5-Year TCO
    $0M
    Discount: 0% (-$0M)
    ▸ See the full pricing breakdown
    US-Based Fixed Costs not location-adjusted
    Platform, Regulatory & SecurityBanking platform licences, US regulatory compliance (OCC/Fed), security certifications (SOC 2, PCI-DSS), legal and contractual costs. Deployed and governed in the US, so not location-adjusted.$10.0M
    US Client Management TeamThe senior team embedded with Hudson Hanseatic in New York: Client Director, Programme Director, Solutions Architect, Regulatory Lead. These roles require US presence and regulatory knowledge, so they do not move offshore. Fixed for the life of the engagement.$5.0M
    US-fixed subtotal$15.0M
    Feature Development NYC ×1.00
    Feature BuildThe build cost of the features you selected, delivered by your chosen city's engineering team, so scales with their labour rate. . (raw: $0M)$0M
    Feature MaintenanceAnnual cost to keep each feature running, updated and secure, typically 15–20% of build cost per year. Performed by your delivery team in the chosen city. Earlier releases carry more maintenance cost because they run for longer within the 5-year contract. (5-year)$0M
    Development subtotal$0M
    Program Management NYC-based · not location-adjusted
    Delivery ServicesProject management, business analysis, change management, DevOps coordination and QA oversight, managed from New York regardless of where the engineering team is based. Industry benchmark is 40–50% of feature development cost. (45%)$0M
    ContingencyA budget reserve for scope creep, technical complexity and integration surprises. Applied at 15% of feature development cost. This risk is managed from New York; it doesn't get cheaper because your developers are offshore. (15%)$0M
    Program subtotal$0M
    Infrastructure (US-Based) not location-adjusted
    Infrastructure SetupOne-time cost to provision and configure your chosen infrastructure model in the US.$0M
    Platform OperationsOngoing cost to run the platform as your customer base grows to 1 million users. (5-year)$0M
    User growth: 200K→1M over 5 years · $0/user/year
    Infrastructure subtotal$0M
    Subtotal (before discount)$0M
    Review

    Your bid to Hudson Hanseatic Bank

    5-Year Total Cost of Ownership
    $0M Your bid price
    Location
    Infrastructure
    R1 Loading
    Discount
    %
    · Team
    · R1
    X-Factor:

    Strategic coherence

    ⚒️🛡️

    The bid is built. Now defend it.

    The Risk Committee will price every bold choice you made.
    🏛️
    Council
    Identity & rival
    🎯
    Strategy
    Archetype & X-Factor
    📦
    Features
    Rated & selected
    📍
    Location
    Delivery centre
    🏗️
    Infrastructure
    Platform choice
    📅
    Releases
    Scheduled & priced
    The Risk Committee examines five factors: location, infrastructure, R1 loading, discount, and automation. Each one has a price.
    Enter code to begin The League
    The League

    The risk committee

    Your price already holds 15% contingency. Now the committee prices five of your decisions.

    Location
    How far the team sits from the bank: time zones, culture, talent.
    Infrastructure
    How far you move from the bank's existing systems.
    Delivery
    How full R1 is. More ambition, more chance something slips.
    Commercial
    How deeply your discount cuts margin and buffer.
    Automation
    How much of your build runs on AI. Drift, bias and regulation grow with it.
    The committee also weighs regulation, talent and reputation, but does not price them.
    Review

    Where you stand

    Your five decisions, against the full range.

    Review

    The verdict

    Risk has a price. The committee has set it.

    Review

    Your final bid to Hudson Hanseatic Bank

    Your final bid is in

    Recorded with the facilitator

    The facilitator will work through partnerships next. Stay with your team: there will be a moment to choose alliances.

    Your journey is complete

    Council ✓
    Blueprint ✓
    Forge ✓
    League ✓
    Location
    Infrastructure
    Final Bid to Hudson Hanseatic
    What you exercised
    Council
    Team formation, questioning AI, and history as a decision lens.
    Blueprint
    The Ziggurat, strategic archetypes, and fit against evidence.
    Forge
    Phased delivery, the future of work, and architecture at true cost.
    League
    Risk pricing, AI governance, and winning through persuasion and partnership.
    What happens next
    Partnerships. Two rival teams may choose to merge, combining strengths, sharing risk, splitting cards. The bank facilitates.
    The Tempest. One spin of the wheel. Low numbers capture value. High numbers face risk. Only the right cards and roles can protect you.
    The Decision. Hudson Hanseatic Bank reviews the final bids and announces the winner.
    Laptops down. Eyes to the front. The Tempest is coming.