from yukti (युक्ति) — strategy, ingenuity, skillful means
Your students stop doing homework and start running the company.
YuktiX is a multi-round competitive strategy simulation, built AI-native from the engine up. A real eight-seat C-suite, a deterministic engine that never lets AI touch the score, and a coach that teaches the why behind every result.
8
executive seats, each with real authority
20+
advanced market mechanics you toggle per game
10+
strategic frameworks, quantified in-engine
0
times AI touches a graded result
A genuine executive team
Each participant claims a C-suite seat and owns their function’s decisions — server-enforced. Officers submit; the CEO consolidates and files.
Chief Executive
CEO
Sets strategy, resolves budget conflicts, consolidates and files the plan.
Finance
CFO
Capital structure, taxes & transfer pricing, dividends, the budget chain.
Product
VP Product Mgmt
Feature roadmap, product-market fit, line & variant strategy.
Capacity, production, the plant floor & the experience curve.
Supply
VP Operations
Sourcing, logistics, efficiency & make-vs-buy.
Innovation
VP R&D
R&D intensity, the arms race, build-vs-license technology.
People
VP Human Resources
Wages, benefits & L&D → a workforce-morale model with real teeth.
AI coaches. The engine scores.
Every result comes from a deterministic, pure-code market engine — the same math the in-app what-if projector runs. Outcomes are reproducible and identical for every viewer: no black box, nothing to argue with in a debrief. AI is the board, the coach and the comms desk — never the judge.
0
times AI touches a graded number
End-of-Round Coach
A per-team retrospective — charts from the real results plus an advanced-MBA analysis, function by function, of how they could have done better. Faculty get a private teaching-notes version: the concept, the Socratic question, the figures for the board.
Communications Studio
Teams draft a press release, board memo and employee memo — then it is checked against reality. Over-promise the market and Credibility Capital erodes; mislead the board and confidence falls toward a CEO firing.
Executive Coach
A Socratic assistant on every team's desk — it asks whether a framework fits, and never hands over the answer.
AI Board Memo
The Chair's personalized read on the round, grounded strictly in that team's own numbers, always ending in questions worth debating.
Situation rooms that teach the why
Every seat gets an interactive lab, not a blank form: sketch a scenario, watch the real engine respond live, then push it to the boardroom.
VP Sales & Marketing
Pricing Lab & Cross-Price Wargame
Sweep price through the live engine to the profit-max, then war-game the field's reply on a your-move × their-move matrix. The price-war trap becomes a picture.
CEO / Strategy
Strategy → Plan
Pick a posture — Cost, Differentiation, Focus, Blue Ocean — and watch VRIO, Five Forces, BCG, TOWS, life-cycles and the experience curve translate it into per-lever targets.
Every function
Live what-if, everywhere
Marketing ROI, plant break-even, R&D game theory, capital & tax, workforce morale — each with a sketch-it-yourself sandbox wired to the same engine that scores the round.
Cesim publishes a broad catalogue — thirteen-plus full simulations plus microsimulations spanning marketing, finance, HR, retail, hospitality, banking and more, in multiple languages. If you need a different simulation for every course on the timetable, that catalogue is a genuine strength. YuktiX is the other bet: one strategy simulation, taken far deeper than any single title in that catalogue — and rebuilt for the AI era.
YuktiXAI-native · 2026
CesimEstablished standard
Team structure
Eight enforced C-suite seatsEach officer owns and submits a function; the CEO consolidates and files.
Teams of 2–8 members sharing one decision set
Role of AI
Coaches, drafts and authors — never scoresRetrospectives, teaching notes, comms and scenarios; the engine alone computes results.
AI integration available; assists feedback & assessment
Decision support
Interactive situation rooms per seatSketch any value → the live engine responds → push it to Decisions.
Decision forms plus detailed analysis reports
Post-round learning
Per-function retrospective + faculty teaching notesGenerated per team, per round, from that team's own results.
Detailed reports to help with analysis and grading
Scenarios
Real industries, real headlines — AI-designedDescribe any industry: the designer web-researches today's conditions and casts its real incumbents, suppliers and regulators into the world and the news feed, with a ticker watchlist and cited sources. Each round can be drafted from the day's actual headlines. Teams play synthetic firms inside that real industry.
A customizable default case
Opponents
Team-vs-team, or engine-driven bot rivalsA single team still gets a real, competitive market.
Teams compete against each other, not AI
Strategy frameworks
10+ quantified and built inVRIO, Five Forces, BCG, Blue Ocean, TOWS, Balanced Scorecard, experience curve.
Implicit in the decision set
The engine
Deterministic and auditableReproducible, identical for every viewer; preview runs the very same code as scoring.