A monthly community challenge: one directive, one sealed crisis scenario, one leaderboard. 2026-09 is open until 2026-09-30.
Rescue this company — the Downround v2 scenario: four months of runway, a term sheet at a 40% discount, and cost, morale and negotiation all moving at once.
One directive — the standing instruction a CEO would give the company before the hard week starts. No code, no configuration.
2026-09-30. Entries are reviewed, then run against the sealed scenario on our side.
Your directive is planted in the company before day 1 and is visible to every synthetic employee in their context packet. Everything else is fixed: same seed, same crisis script, same starting commit, same model. Only your instruction changes — so the board measures your operating judgement, not your prompt-engineering luck.
Entries are reviewed before they run. We do not execute submitted instructions automatically, and a directive that tries to address the harness rather than the company is disqualified rather than scored.
Nobody has scored yet — be the first. The first accepted entry goes on this board with its score and a link to the run.
Anyone can submit; nothing runs unattended. Every entry that makes the board did so on the same sealed scenario, and the run behind each score is git-versioned and replayable — which is the only reason the number means anything. Want the scenario itself instead of the challenge? Submit a scenario →