Your class is the market.
Every other simulation puts one student in a room with a scripted boss. Ours puts your whole class into one economy — rival companies, real scarcity, and a leaderboard that moves the moment you advance the period.
1,600+ simulations · 45–90 minutes each · English and Spanish, side by side · no app, no district install
| Team | Price | Share | Profit | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voltaic Co. | $249 | 24.1% ▲ | $41.2k | IN |
| Northgate | $279 | 19.8% ▼ | $38.7k | IN |
| Kestrel Labs | $229 | 18.4% ▲ | $22.9k | IN |
| Ember & Co. | $265 | 14.0% ▼ | $19.4k | IN |
| Sunrise Mfg. | — | 12.6% | $15.1k | WAITING |
| Delta Nine | — | 11.1% | $9.8k | WAITING |
One student alone, or thirty students against each other
A student, a scripted supervisor, and an answer key
The scenario is fixed before the student opens it. Every decision is scored against a rubric written months ago. Two students in the same class get the same feedback, and a student who finishes at midnight has had the same experience as one who worked in your room.
It grades reliably and it is genuinely useful. But nothing that happens depends on anyone else, so there is nothing to discuss on Thursday.
Eight companies, one market, and consequences
Teams set price, capacity and marketing without seeing each other's choices. You close the period. The engine resolves demand across every team at once, and the board rearranges itself in front of the room.
A team that undercut the market finds out why margin is not the same as share. A team that overbuilt capacity is sitting on inventory. That is the lesson, and it arrives on its own — you just have to run the period.
It maps to the courses you already teach
Not a course to adopt. A period you can run inside the course you are already running, with no software for your students to install.
| Grade | Course in the program of study | What you run | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | Principles of Business, Marketing & Finance | First Company: Introductory Business SimulationA first company: price, cost and demand in a single period, with no prerequisites. | 1 × 90 min |
| 10–11 | Money Matters / Personal Financial Literacy | Your First Paycheck · Building CreditA first paycheck and a first credit line: withholding, gross versus net, and what a credit history actually does. | 2 × 50 min |
| 10–12 | Accounting I | Accounting Game: From Transactions to Financial StatementsTransactions to financial statements: students post entries and close a period. | 3 × 50 min |
| 11–12 | Entrepreneurship | The Food Truck Launch: Break-even & Margin of SafetyA real food truck: break-even, margin of safety, and what happens when the volume does not show up. | 2 × 50 min |
| 11–12 | Economics | Maya’s Ice-Cream Stall: Demand & SupplySupply and demand with an ice-cream stall — equilibrium price stops being a diagram. | 1 × 50 min |
| 11–12 | Sports & Entertainment Marketing | Cascadia Crest — Stadium SponsorshipSports sponsorship: rival venues bidding for the same sponsor and the same weekend crowd. | 1 × 90 min |
| 12 | Practicum / Capstone | The Riley Carter Decade — Personal Finance CapstoneTen years of one person's financial decisions — a graded, rubric-backed end-of-course piece. | Semester |
Course names follow the Texas Business, Marketing & Finance program of study; we will map to your state's course numbers before you buy. Every simulation runs solo inside a single period; the competitive team format — live rounds, one instructor clock — is a mode you switch on. Tell us which course you are teaching and we will tell you which format fits.
Your business teacher is not the only one who needs this
Most vendors in this space sell business, marketing, agriculture and hospitality. Our catalogue runs past 1,600 simulations, and the management side of nearly every cluster you offer is already in it.
It may count toward your 5S3 number
Arizona, North Dakota and Tennessee all define work-based learning to include simulated environments at the school when they are aligned to curriculum and instruction. If your state picked the WBL program-quality indicator, a documented simulation period can be evidence. Definitions vary — send us your state's and we will tell you straight whether it fits.
Competition practice, every week
DECA, FBLA and BPA competitors spend the year preparing for one event. A live market in your classroom is the same pressure — read the field, commit under a clock, defend the decision afterward — available any Tuesday.
Nothing to install, nothing to image
It runs in the browser your students already have. They join with a code. Chromebooks are fine, and it is built to work on thin bandwidth — a period only needs the network to load and to close.
A pacing guide, a deck and a rubric
Every simulation ships with a facilitator pack: what to say before, where students always get stuck, what to debrief on, and a rubric you can put in the gradebook. Written for a teacher with four preps, not for a professor.
The same market, in two languages, in one room
Every competitor in US high-school CTE ships in English only. Our platform runs in 16 languages and the catalogue in nine — set per student, not per class. An emergent-bilingual student competes in the same market as everyone else, reading it in Spanish.
Not machine translation pasted on top: some simulations were written in Spanish from scratch, such as “Mi Primer Sueldo” and “La Gran Idea”.
A simulation about the employer down the road
Perkins asks you to align to your local labor market and to show your employer partnership is real. A catalogue cannot help you with that — it was written for everyone.
We build simulations for a living, and we build them fast. Give us the business your advisory-board partner actually runs — the distribution center, the hospital system, the grower, the plant — and we will turn it into a simulation your students compete inside, in days rather than semesters. Your employer partner sees their own decisions on the board. That tends to change what they are willing to do for your program.
Talk about a custom buildPriced per campus, not per student
Per-student pricing makes a 2,000-student campus look unaffordable before anyone has read the product. We do not do it that way.
The shape of it
- License
- One campus site license, banded by enrollment. Every teacher, every section, every simulation in the catalogue — no per-course bundles and no add-ons.
- Term
- One, three or five years. Multi-year is discounted; district-wide is discounted further.
- Paperwork
- Quoted on your purchase order, with a W-9 and a signed data privacy agreement. Send us your district's DPA and we will sign yours rather than asking you to accept ours.
- Pilot
- One teacher, one section, one grading period. Free, and no auto-renew at the end of it.
What we need to quote you
Three lines in an email and you will have a number back within two business days:
- Campus name and student enrollment
- Which courses would use it, and roughly how many sections
- Your state, and which Perkins program-quality indicator it reports
What we do not have
We would rather you knew in week one than week six. If any of these is disqualifying for your district, tell us and we will stop wasting your time.
- No industry certification. We do not issue a credential and we are not on your state's certification list. If your program is judged on 5S1, Stukent and iCEV are built for that and we are not.
- No Clever or ClassLink rostering yet. Classes are set up by roster upload or join code today. Rostering integration is on the roadmap; it is not shipped.
- We are hosted in the EU. AWS, Ireland, GDPR, with a documented processing record. If your district requires US data residency, say so now — we are working on a US region and we will tell you honestly where it stands.
- We do not hold SOC 2 Type II. Our infrastructure provider does; we do not yet. Our full security posture is published rather than described on a sales call.
- We are not a curriculum. We do not replace your textbook or your lesson sequence. We are the two days a unit where the class stops reading about a market and runs one.
Frequently asked questions
My teacher has never run a simulation. Is this going to fall apart in period 4?
The teacher's job during a period is to start it, watch the submission count, and press advance. The engine does the rest, and the debrief questions are written for them in the facilitator guide. We run a 45-minute onboarding with every new teacher and we'll sit in on their first live period if they want us there.
What happens to a student who is absent, or who joins the class in March?
A period runs on a clock, so an absent student's team keeps playing — the teams are exactly how the class absorbs absence. A student who joins mid-year joins a team. And because each simulation runs 45 to 90 minutes rather than a whole semester, nobody is ever permanently behind.
How does this hit the gradebook?
Every simulation ships with a rubric that grades the reasoning, not the leaderboard — a team can finish fourth and earn the top mark by explaining what they read wrong and what they would change. You get a participation and decision report per student. Automatic grade passback to your LMS is not something we will claim on a landing page: ask us and we will tell you precisely where it stands.
Is it accessible, and what data do you collect on students?
We collect a name, a class assignment and the decisions a student submits. No behavioural advertising, no resale, no third-party trackers in the student experience, and data is returned or deleted when the contract ends. On accessibility we are partway through a WCAG programme and we will tell you exactly which parts are done rather than sending you a marketing sheet.
We already own Stukent. Why would we add this?
Often you would not. If your program is built around certifications and turnkey courseware, that is their game and they play it well. The programs that add us are the ones that want the competitive period their courseware does not have, that teach in Spanish as well as English, or that want one license covering health science, hospitality and logistics too. We publish an honest side-by-side comparison rather than a battle card.
We are in the UK, not the US. Does any of this apply?
Yes, with different vocabulary. Colleges replacing BTEC Business as it is defunded, and T Level providers looking for employer-authentic practice when a 45-day industry placement is hard to source, run the same simulations on the same engine. Ask for the UK version of this conversation and we will drop the Perkins language.
Run one period with one class.
A free pilot: one teacher, one section, one grading period. If the room is not different by the end of it, there is nothing further to discuss.
Book 30 minutesCourse names on this page follow the Texas Business, Marketing & Finance program of study. Work-based learning definitions cited are Arizona, North Dakota and Tennessee — verify your own state's before relying on it.
Last reviewed: 2026-08