Headline → playable theater
Players pick a curated crisis template or describe their own. AI fills roles, constraints, and win conditions — then a full command center runs the match.
Investor overview
Turn geopolitical headlines into playable command theaters
Turn geopolitical headlines into playable command theaters — powered by a compounding ORBAT knowledge graph, AI commanders, and a Creator distribution layer with Match Social Narrator for live wire coverage. Escalation Room is a multiplayer geopolitical simulation — not news, not intel. Geopolitical command simulation.
The tour walks command home, highlights the scenario catalog, then continues in the planning lobby when you pick a template — no account required to browse; sign in when you start a scenario.
Compendium scale
117
Scenario templates
122
Actor profiles in compendium
13,549
Cached platforms & facilities
0
Discoveries promoted to canon
Platform & UGC
0
Commander-published scenarios
2
Player scenarios in review
0
Creator subscribers
3
Active creator spectacles
Live from production — baseline v30, monthly AI refresh Not yet run · 130 discoveries awaiting review
Why it matters
Crisis literacy is exploding — but most tools are passive reading or tabletop games that need a referee.
Knowledge flywheel
Curated OSINT baselines seed every theater. Matches cache new platforms and facilities, score discoveries across commanders, and feed the next month's AI scenario refresh — with human review before canon.
AI without a game master
ORBAT compendium, advisor counsel, operations deck, wire feed, and time compression replace a human referee. Command adds one lobby AI commander; Creator deploys up to four saved commanders plus an optional Match Social Narrator for live wire coverage on X.
SaaS command licenses + Creator
Spectator, Operator, Command, and Creator subscriptions meter theaters, scenario intensity, sim speed, and lobby tools. Creator adds roster, Match Social Narrator, spectacle mode, social distribution, and capture exports for creators, educators, and research communities — fan content and streaming are open on every tier per Terms.
Knowledge architecture
AI staff counsel on every tier. Command hosts add one ephemeral AI commander per lobby (personality for that theater only). Creator subscribers run a saved cast of up to four agents that play operations, plus an optional Match Social Narrator that posts wire and sitreps to its own X account — commanders stay in-character on theirs. Encrypted credentials per Terms §8. Admin Marketing Studio remains internal.
Curated core
109-country deep packs, escalation ladder, and a versioned scenario catalog — OSINT-authored and shipped on each baseline release. Commanders can publish custom scenarios into the review queue.
Runtime graph
Per-match compendium builds cache platforms and facilities in entity_pool; advisors and the situation builder pull live RAG from match + baseline context. Creator spectacles feed the same graph.
Promotion gate
Discoveries and player scenarios queue in admin review. Approved items become baseline supplements or catalog entries — never silent overwrites of canonical data.
Tier 1 — Curated
deep packs → enrichmentscenario catalogcountry_baselines (vN)
Tier 2 — Runtime
matches / turnsentity_pool cachecompendium_discoveries
Tier 3 — Promoted
admin review gatebaseline supplementsplay → catalog candidates
play→discover→review→promote→refresh scenarios→play
Player journey
01
Browse & pick
Scenario catalog with tiered escalation — from diplomatic friction to full crisis, including community-published theaters.
02
Shape in lobby
Chat with the planning assistant; deploy human commanders, a Command AI seat, or a Creator cast of up to four saved commanders — plus an optional Match Social Narrator for live wire posts.
03
Command the theater
Situation room, advisors, operations, captures, and after-action reports — solo or multiplayer. Creators export moments while cast and narrator agents draft posts to connected X accounts.
Creator distribution layer
Highest-ARPU tier — spectacle hosts who grow the audience
Creator is for anyone who runs Escalation Room as a public spectacle — creators, educators, and research communities — with a reusable AI cast, a dedicated Match Social Narrator for live wire coverage, and tools to export and share outcomes. Creator spectacles feed the same runtime graph as standard matches; distribution is a parallel loop to the compendium flywheel.
New in CreatorOne Match Social Narrator per spectacle — wire, sitreps, and escalation on a dedicated X account while your cast plays in-character.
Match Social Narrator
Attach one Match Social Narrator per match from the lobby or Creator Studio. They do not take a commander seat and do not count toward the four-agent cast cap — they route theater opens, wire drops, sitreps, and escalation to their own connected X account in third-person host voice, while commander agents post from their seats on commander ticks.
Creator Studio
Roster, live spectacles, social queue, and usage in one operator console — distribution tooling without internal Marketing Studio access.
Saved autonomous cast
Creator subscribers configure a reusable cast of AI commanders and social narrators. Commanders play operations and post in-character; the Match Social Narrator covers theater-wide beats on a dedicated X account — host voice, no gameplay seat.
Command vs Creator AI
Command adds one ephemeral AI commander per lobby. Creator replaces that with saved roster agents — the two modes do not stack in one lobby. Match Social Narrator is separate: social-only, one per match.
Trust & metering
Per-user encrypted X credentials, agent-level account assignment, and liability framing in Terms §8. Social posts and capture exports meter alongside theater compute on Stripe.
Creator distribution loop
Parallel to the compendium flywheel — spectacle hosts turn play into audience growth.
Host spectacle→Cast plays · narrator wires→Queue / post to X→Audience discovers theater→play
Streaming and classroom play are welcome on any tier, including monetization via normal platform programs — see Terms §7. Creator adds a saved cast, Match Social Narrator, capture exports, and social distribution tools.
Business model
Subscription command licenses meter theaters per month, scenario escalation tier, sim time compression, lobby seats, and AI advisor depth. Free Spectator tier drives discovery via Theater Wire and shared after-action reports; paid tiers convert engaged players, hosts, and creators who run spectacles with distribution.
- SpectatorFree
2 theaters/mo — real commander seat, full ladder
- Operator$12/mo
Weekly play — live research, ×24 sim, 12 theaters
- Command$30/mo
Host — 8 seats, publish scenarios, 1 lobby AI commander
- Creator$79/mo
Creators, Educators & Research — 4-agent cast, Match Social Narrator, X social, capture exports
Creator includes every Command benefit — publish scenarios, ×100 sim, 8-seat lobbies, priority fill, and deep advisor capacity — plus a saved AI cast, Match Social Narrator, and distribution tools.
Moat & stack
Curated scenario catalog + commander-published theaters → catalog pipeline
ORBAT compendium with runtime supplements (not just static JSON)
LLM-routed advisors with compendium RAG
Autonomous AI commanders that play operations — not chatbots only
Creator spectacle layer — saved cast, Match Social Narrator, social queue, encrypted X posting
Human-in-the-loop promotion (admin inbox)
Monthly AI catalog refresh grounded in live match activity
Multiplayer lobby with live AI proposal drafting
Stripe subscriptions + usage metering (compute, social, exports)
See it in under ten minutes
Guided tour on the live product — home, scenario catalog, planning lobby, and the systems that make multiplayer crisis sim work without a game master.
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