CTO
The strategy game where you run the tech. Hire your team, choose your stack, survive production incidents, and try to ship before the board loses patience.
Build Your Stack
Monolith or microservices? Cloud or on-prem? Every architectural decision ripples through your organisation for years.
Manage Your Team
Hire engineers, handle 1:1s, navigate conflicts, and deal with your best developer leaving the week before launch.
Survive Incidents
Production goes down at 2am. The CEO is texting. Your on-call engineer isn't answering. What do you do?
Navigate the Board
Justify your tech spend, explain the rewrite, and convince non-technical stakeholders that security isn't optional.
Why this game exists
Being a CTO is one of the most complex roles in modern business. You're balancing technical debt against feature velocity, managing engineers with wildly different motivations, and making decisions that echo for years.
I've spent eight years watching this role from the sales side, seeing CTOs make brilliant calls and painful mistakes. CTO translates that experience into interactive gameplay that's both entertaining and educational.
Follow along as the game takes shape.