Fortlane runs wargames. Strategy Quest runs full rehearsals. Both explore competitive dynamics, but only one carries the consequences from round to round.
| Fortlane | Strategy Quest | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Facilitated wargame workshop | Live multi-round simulation |
| Depends on | Facilitator and participants on the day | A simulation that carries consequences forward |
| Repeatable | Each event is designed separately | Run it again, with new teams or new rounds |
| Stakeholders | Played by participants | AI executives with agendas and memory |
Our summary of how the two approaches differ, based on publicly available information about Fortlane. Talk to both before you choose.
Wargaming is a compelling format for exploring competitive dynamics. Players role-play competitors, stage boardroom power plays and debate plausible futures.
Strategy rehearsal asks for more: tough trade-offs, political constraints and feedback you cannot control. Without those, you are rehearsing the wrong thing.
Wargames lean on role-play and facilitation, typically delivered as one-off workshops with external moderators. Outcomes depend heavily on facilitation quality and the mood of the day.
Real strategic decisions evolve over time and have to balance capital, portfolio exposure and internal politics.
Strategy Quest brings in what makes wargaming useful, such as rival moves, market shifts and options, and adds a simulation that carries the consequences forward.
Your team does not just play out a rival's behaviour. They experience what happens when it hits their budget, their internal support and their assumptions. It is a rehearsal, not a game.
Teams remember when they hesitated, why they invested too soon or how they missed a market shift. The realism forces reflection, and the structure lets them try again.
Strategy becomes a team capability rather than a solo act or a facilitated exercise.
I've participated in Strategy Quest twice now. Both times were incredibly enriching, full of learning and fun.
Strategy Quest is one of the most engaging ways I've seen to explore what it feels like to lead innovation.
I would trade my MBA for such an immersive learning experience.
A safe rehearsal of a real strategic decision. Participants step into a living organisation, work with the people in it, make choices and see the consequences play out over several rounds, instead of reading about them in a case study.
A facilitator builds an organisation in about 20 minutes: its market, its numbers and an executive team of AI stakeholders, each with a role, an agenda and a memory. Participants get a mandate, email those stakeholders, gather information, build support and submit a strategy. The executive team reacts to it, and the next round starts from where they left it.
Consultancies that want to rehearse an engagement, in-house strategy and transformation teams, leadership programmes and business schools. Anyone who has to make a high-stakes call with incomplete information and other people who disagree.
You decide. A single quest fits in a two to three hour session, and a series can run over several weekly rounds. Workshops, offsites and multi-week programmes all work.
Yes. Start from a new organisation in a real market, build one from scratch, or base it on a specific organisation. The people inside the simulation are always fictional.
Yes. Everything runs in the browser, so participants can play from anywhere, alone or in teams.
Every submission gets a reaction from the executive team, and the facilitator sees decisions, conversations and scores as they happen. That gives the debrief real material to work with instead of opinions.