Eureka vs LiveCase
An AI case player that turns a document into an interactive narrative, versus a deterministic engine where each team's decisions move everyone else's numbers.
For faculty and L&D leads who teach with cases and are deciding whether the next step is to make the case interactive, or to replace it with a multi-round simulation.
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| Dimension | Eureka Simulations | LiveCase |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue size | 28 core simulations (18 co-developed with IESE) + an Express catalogue of short formats | ~26 published interactive cases (most written with INSEAD faculty), 45 to 480 min — plus free AI authoring: an authoring platform first, not a closed catalogue |
| Languages | Platform in 16 languages; Express in 9 (EN, ES, CA, DE, EU, FR, IT, PT, ZH) | Platform and catalogue in English; no packaged multilingual delivery |
| MBA / Exec-Ed depth | High — ExSim plus 18 simulations co-developed with IESE faculty | High in case-method terms — INSEAD authors and bestsellers on Harvard Business Impact; but these are interactive cases, not quantitative management simulators |
| Corporate L&D fit | Medium-high — 90-minute Express format to scale to thousands of managers | Good for crisis, ethics and negotiation role-play; non-degree (corporate) programmes bill at 2× |
| Deployment / hosting | Cloud SaaS, 100% browser (Archimedes platform), EU-hosted (GDPR) | Web SaaS, any device; the host creates the session and players join by link, QR or session code |
| Pricing tier | $$ — €8–25/student; €4K–60K/year at institutional level | $ metered — free to author; from $1.50/seat per episode + $1.00 per AI character conversation (×2 for non-degree). Studio builds: $250 / $999 / on request |
| Customization | High — co-development with the professor; custom-built simulations (€25–50K) | Very high on content — free AI-assisted authoring, you keep 100% of the IP and can sell it in their marketplace; but you author narrative, not an economic model |
| Integrations (LTI, SSO) | LTI + SSO (SAML 2.0); integrates with Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard | Canvas; link, QR or session code; cases distributed inside Harvard Business Impact and The Case Centre coursepacks. No stated LTI 1.3 or grade passback |
| Reporting / analytics | Live instructor dashboard; decision data taggable by competency (AoL-ready) | Host dashboard: leaderboard by score and by "characteristics", question-by-question drill-down, CSV export, plus term frequency and sentiment analysis on open answers |
| Target geography | Spain + LATAM (IESE family: IPADE, IAE, INALDE, PAD…); 50+ institutions, 10,000+ students | Global, English-speaking business schools and exec ed; INSEAD-rooted, US/EU. 70,000+ participants and 1,000+ educators (company figures) |
When LiveCase is the better choice
LiveCase does something we deliberately do not: it turns your own written material into an AI-driven interactive narrative in a matter of hours. Choose them when:
- You already have a case, a document or a deck and you want it playable next week — authoring is free, AI-assisted, and you keep 100% of the IP.
- The learning is qualitative — ethics, crisis communication, negotiation, leadership under pressure — and the point is talking to a character, not moving a price.
- You want to start small and pay per use: a single 45-minute episode at a per-seat price, with no platform contract, and the option to distribute through Harvard Business Impact or The Case Centre.
When Eureka is the better choice
Eureka wins when the decisions have to carry consequences a model computes, rather than answers that get marked.
- You want participants to run a company across rounds — price, production, investment, financing — and read a P&L, not a score out of 1,000.
- You want real inter-team competition: your team's result depends on what the other teams decided that round, and the instructor advances the round for the whole class.
- You need it in the language of the classroom (16 on the platform, 9 in Express) and at a predictable institutional price, not metered per seat and per interaction.
Sometimes you use both
They stack well inside one course: LiveCase for the qualitative episodes — the ethical dilemma, the difficult conversation, the crisis call — and Eureka for the quantitative block, where the same cohort runs a company over several rounds and competes for market share. One trains judgement in conversation; the other trains judgement against numbers that answer back.
Frequently asked questions
Is LiveCase a business simulation?
It calls its experiences simulations, and they are genuinely interactive: you make choices inside an unfolding story, talk to AI characters and get scored. But there is no economic model underneath — each question is scored out of 1,000 points (right or wrong, with a timer bonus) and then averaged. Eureka runs a deterministic engine that computes the consequences of your decisions and of your rivals'.
Can students compete in teams on LiveCase?
Partly. Their own documentation says groups are formed off-platform (in Excel or by email) and are then used to filter the leaderboard; some cases ask players to declare their group at the start. It is individual play with a team label. In Eureka the team is the unit of play, and each team's result depends on what the other teams decided in that same round.
Interactive case or business simulation?
Tell us what the session has to prove. If it is a conversation, LiveCase may be your answer; if it is a decision with consequences, let us show you ours.
ContactLast reviewed: 2026-05