Alpha Access
Every decision
has claws.
A satirical startup operations game. Every call you make reshapes your COO — and your office — into something wilder.
For indie gamers who love absurd startups — and operators who want to practice the hard ones without real-world fallout.
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Every Level, A New Animal
Every three best calls morphs one more body part. Finish all four levels for your final feral picture.
How It Works
Pick 1 of 3 Calls
Every scenario hands you three responses: one well-supported, two with trade-offs. Choose fast — the board doesn't wait, and neither does your biology. Choices are final once made.
Grow a Feature
Every three best-supported calls earn the next body part of the level's animal — ears, eyes, nose, paws, tail. Land all 15 and you own all five parts.
Go Full Feral
String together enough good calls in a row and your entire office zone transforms into a breakroom menagerie. Enough consecutive wins completes the level's full transformation.
4 rounds with 15 scenarios each — 60 decisions total. Alpha build uses placeholder scenarios intended for replacement with final content.
Leaderboard
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A Blind-Spot Report After Every Level
Below is a sample from an example run — finish a level’s 15 calls to receive your own decision-backed blind-spot report
Sample · pattern detected
“The sample operator's strongest pattern: proportionate containment.”
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Your blind-spot report
This is a review of this attempt’s decisions—not an AI-literacy score or a psychological assessment.
Blind-spot report
14/15
best-supported calls this attempt
What your calls demonstrated
The judgment your best calls actually show — each one linked to the decisions that prove it.
Proportionate containment · 4 best-supported calls
Decision evidence · Q1, Q5, Q6
Question 1 · The Refund Avalanche
Your call A: Immediately have Dana pause Patch's outbound queue to verify the apology draft and the list of recipients.
Key clue: Patch is actively drafting a second incorrect batch that must be stopped before delivery.
Question 5 · The Agent That Wants Admin
Your call B: Revoke Bolt’s admin access now and hand the changed tables to the engineering lead for recovery; require data-owner approval before further risky changes.
Key clue: The agent has exceeded its safe operating scope and is modifying core architecture without human oversight.
Question 6 · Our Only Customer Wants a Unicorn Button
Your call B: Decline Monday delivery, keep Ravi’s team on the security patch, and give Bev a clear checkpoint for reconsidering the request after the fix ships.
Key clue: A security vulnerability is a structural risk that outweighs the vanity request of even a major funder.
Clear decision ownership · 4 best-supported calls
Decision evidence · Q2, Q7, Q9
Question 2 · Founder Approves Every Stapler
Your call A: Agree on specific spending criteria with Mo, giving leads ownership to approve routine purchases below a clear threshold.
Key clue: Low-risk, high-frequency decisions are causing a critical bottleneck for revenue-generating activities.
Question 7 · The Intern Shipped to Production
Your call B: Implement a new process requiring a second engineer to review and agree on all production-bound code changes.
Key clue: The lack of a mandatory review process is the systemic failure that allowed a trainee to break production.
Question 9 · Who Owns the Coffee Machine?
Your call B: Designate Lin as the facilities owner, with a budget and clear criteria for when to escalate repair requests.
Key clue: The lack of a designated owner for office maintenance led to a collective bystander effect.
Protecting priorities · 2 best-supported calls
Decision evidence · Q3, Q13
Question 3 · Two Leads, One Launch Date
Your call B: Use the confirmed release checks to rule out Friday; make next Wednesday a readiness checkpoint and ask Jules to announce a sneak peek instead.
Key clue: The technical limitation is based on specific evidence (bugs) and cannot be bypassed for marketing optics.
Question 13 · The Manager Who Never Says No
Your call A: Map out the evidence of project delays with Kai and agree on new criteria for accepting work for his team.
Key clue: The manager lacks a framework for rejection, leading to total delivery failure.
Watch-outs for the next round
Prospective prompts for what you have not been tested on yet. A perfect run gets strengths and prompts, never an invented weakness.
- Untested risk: a successful result can hide a fragile process. Ask what would break if the conditions changed.
- Untested risk: a sound call can still fail during handover. Check that someone owns the next action.
Blind spots that repeated
A pattern only counts when it shows up more than once across the scenarios that offered it.
No repeated blind-spot pattern detected in this attempt.
One-off watch-outs
A single slip is labelled a single slip — never inflated into a diagnosis.
The response was the wrong size · one choice, not a detected pattern
Decision evidence · Q15
Question 15 · Week One Retro: Who Operates?
Your call A: Let's map all recurring decisions to agree on a permanent owner and criteria for each, then schedule a formal review.
Key clue: The bottleneck is centralized authority, not a lack of data or process.
Identify the smallest intervention that contains the actual risk.
A review of completed decisions—not a personality diagnosis or a ranking against other players.
Your headshot. Your feral result.
Final feral result · after all four levels
0/4 levels finished. Complete all four levels to download your final feral result. The picture below is a work-in-progress preview. Each level’s blind-spot report is available as soon as its 15 calls are complete.
Add your headshot, then download a picture with your photo and current game result.
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