Every choice shapes who you become.
Each run is a branching story built from decisions people actually face. Pick an archetype, work through seven chapters, and watch four things move as you choose: your skill, your money, your reputation, and your wellbeing. There is no score and no right answer — only the ending your choices earned, and an honest read on what that pattern costs.
Each run includes a case file that separates the fictional outcome from the real decision concepts, plus a related guide or quiz for further study.
Fictional shocks and trade-offs that practise documenting constraints, separating facts from assumptions, and slowing down consequential money decisions.
The treatment is over. The paperwork is not.
A seven-chapter branching run through a large medical bill: the invoice that may be wrong, the collections letter, the payment plan nobody offers unprompted, and the year it takes to resolve. Four archetypes, six endings.
What it teaches: separating the useful prompts from the fictional score
It landed. Now it has to go somewhere.
A seven-chapter branching run through an annual bonus: the number that is smaller than announced, the upgrade you have been postponing, the pension nobody mentions, and the twelve months that reveal whether it changed anything.
What it teaches: planning a one-off payment without treating it as recurring income
Everyone is a long-term investor until the chart is red.
A seven-chapter branching run through a volatile-asset crash: the position that got too big, the message from a friend, the recovery that never quite arrives, and the year it takes to work out what you actually learned.
What it teaches: the decision after the chart has already moved
Money arrives attached to a person you have lost.
A seven-chapter branching run through a modest inheritance: the letter, the pressure, the debt it could clear, the thing you want, and the year that decides whether it changed anything. Four archetypes, six endings.
What it teaches: slowing down a decision made during grief
You own the upside. You also own the invoicing.
A seven-chapter branching run through going independent: the last salaried payday, the first client, the invoice that goes unpaid, the tax bill nobody warned you about, and the point where it becomes a business or a long gap on a CV.
What it teaches: turning a career change into a set of records and decisions
Less money arrives. The bills do not care why.
A seven-chapter branching run through an income drop: the announcement, the triage, the conversations you avoid, and the eighteen months it takes to find out whether you handled it. Four archetypes, six endings.
What it teaches: what to clarify in the first ninety days after an income drop
Every choice shapes what you end up owning.
A seven-chapter branching run through the startup-equity decision: the offer, the dilution, the exercise window, the crunch, and the exit that may never come. Four archetypes, six endings, no right answers.
What it teaches: reading an equity offer as a set of uncertainties
Release, migration, and disclosure scenarios about evidence, ownership, rollback plans, and working through authorised processes.
The date was picked before anyone looked at the work.
A seven-chapter branching run through a release under pressure: the date nobody validated, the tests that get cut first, the incident at 2am, and the retrospective that decides whether anything changes.
What it teaches: making release risk discussable before it becomes an incident
You found it. Now the hard part starts.
A seven-chapter branching run through finding a serious vulnerability: who you tell, how fast, what you say publicly, and what happens when the vendor stops replying. Four archetypes, six endings.
What it teaches: authorisation comes before a disclosure timeline
Nobody understands it. Everybody depends on it.
A seven-chapter branching run through a legacy system: the module everyone avoids, the rewrite that sounds obvious, the migration nobody budgeted, and the point where you find out whether you improved anything.
What it teaches: learning what a legacy system does before replacing it
Negotiation and turnout scenarios that foreground procedure, official sources, privacy, uncertainty, and non-partisan limits.
Everyone arrives with a deadline and a domestic audience.
A seven-chapter branching run through multilateral negotiation: the draft text, the bracket that will not close, the leak, and the choice between a weak agreement and no agreement at all.
What it teaches: procedure is context, not a shortcut to diplomacy
Persuasion is loud. Turnout is logistics.
A seven-chapter branching run through running a non-partisan youth turnout drive: the budget, the registration deadline, the venue that falls through, and the metric that decides whether any of it worked.
What it teaches: non-partisan turnout work still has rules and limits
Questions with a correct answer and an explanation after every one. Use them to check what you actually know.
No right answers — your pattern of choices maps to a decision profile with strengths and watch-outs.
A branching run with stats that move, seven chapters, and six possible endings. Nothing is scored right or wrong.