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Deal IQ
Five-step fellowship before live play: Territory through Qualification, then MEDDPICC heatmaps managers can read.
Try SwiftLane on NovaTech. 60-90 min cohorts. ICCE scorecard. CSV exports for enablement reviews.
Deal IQThis is your next deal.
This is your next deal.
After the logo lock
This is what Deal IQ trains before the live room.
The scroll story ends on the promise. Here is the fellowship path reps actually run.
Deal IQ runs a five-step fellowship before live play: Territory, Account Research, Initiative Mapping, Pipeline, and Qualification. Reps cite intel, size TAM, score a hypothesis, pick contact and channel, and draft an opener before Alex narrates Turn 1.
One thread, three acts
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Fellowship spine: Territory, Research, Initiative, Pipeline, Qualification
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Live deal: same docs, MEDDPICC or SPICED, Klara every turn
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Debrief: pre-contact log plus strategic retrospective (ground truth only here)
What managers see before Turn 1
Live fellowship spine progress before the first live turn
Research started timestamp and active play time on the manager strip
Inspect desk, hypotheses, TAM, and opener before Alex narrates Turn 1
Fellowship spine
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Territory
Tier accounts, peek CRM, defend hunt focus before outreach.
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Account Research
Org strip, Key Contacts, intel cards, cited doc evidence.
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Initiative Mapping
Value pyramid, TAM with evidence, owner avatars, cited hypothesis.
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Pipeline
Stakeholder map, contact choice, channel, and opener draft.
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Qualification
Selection Room gates live play. MEDDPICC or SPICED depth by level.
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Live deal
Same docs, Alex narrates, Klara every turn, buyer pushback.
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Debrief
Pre-contact log plus strategic retrospective. Ground truth only here.
The same intel follows you into live play: unified Documents, Klara grounded in named docs, and a pre-contact timeline in your Journal.
Sales enablement stack
Deal craft and Team craft first.
Two co-flagships for revenue teams: hard craft in the buyer room, soft craft inside the pod. Mirror and Transfer are foundation rooms on the same learning path, not co-equal heroes.
Co-flagships
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Team IQ
Inside-pod team craft: retro, 1:1, peer beats. Situational fit debrief managers can coach to.
20-45 min per episode. Focus skills, chemistry rollup, cross-sim with Deal IQ.
Team IQ
Foundation rooms
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Mirror
Baseline how your team shows up under pressure before you assign simulation.
~2 min demo · path baseline ~10 min · eight patterns · team map for enablement leads.
Mirror02
Transfer
See how much of your playbook survives when a champion enters the executive room alone.
Five coaching sessions. Meeting replay you cannot edit. Klara names the gap.
Transfer
Live diagnostic
One symptom. One senior read.
Pick your seat and symptom. Klara returns a structured brief. Anonymous, no signup, two cycles max.
Klara
Enablement analyst
01 · Intake02 · Brief03 · Next
Seat
Symptom
Context
AI-assisted diagnostic only. Not human coaching or hiring advice.
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Selected clients
Work we can name.
Real clients, real deliveries. Each name below links to LinkedIn-documented case material on our case-studies page.
Digikala
Custom game design and team experiences for one of the region's largest e-commerce platforms.
Snappfood
Workshop-games and facilitated sessions documented on LinkedIn.
Saman Bank
Enterprise team-building and behavioural formats for a major financial institution.
Berlin HQ since 2016. 60+ enterprise organisations and 3,000+ participants across facilitated sessions (see About).
Our method
Four months of detail is normal for us.
We are a design studio, not a slide factory. Every format is built for one measurable shift in behaviour.
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Brief
Outcomes first. Who must behave differently on Monday, and how will we know.
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Design
Mechanics, narrative, and facilitator tools. Often months of detail before the first cohort.
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Run
Live session with debrief, written commitments, and manager-ready exports where relevant.
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Measure
Behavioural signals, not slide completion. Deal IQ adds MEDDPICC heatmaps and qualification tiers.
FAQ
Six questions we get every week.
If you have a seventh, ask it on the discovery call. We answer them in writing first, so you have something to push back on.
What is Game Is Serious, in one paragraph?
A Berlin studio that designs serious games and simulations for sales enablement, L&D, and operations. Every format is a repeatable 90-minute session that ends with a written commitment, an anonymised manager summary, and a date on the calendar. Forty mechanics, three languages, sixty enterprise teams since 2016.
Are you only in Berlin?
We are headquartered in Berlin and run many programmes here. We also deliver remote and on-site across DACH, EU, and worldwide. The experience is the same; the language and timezone are not.
What do managers actually receive?
An anonymised cohort-level summary of debrief themes plus the concrete next steps the team committed to in writing. No individual quotes, no names. If you need a deeper assessment scope, we offer one. We do not default to it.
How many people fit in a session?
Treasure Office supports up to 200 players per session. AgileOps and Meteorite typically run with 9 to 27. Mirror and Deal IQ work best at 6 to 18. Larger cohorts use parallel sessions with a shared closing moment.
How is this measured?
We track session completion, debrief quality, and the strength of the team's written commitments. Reporting stays at cohort level unless you contract a deeper assessment. We never sell vanity metrics.
How do I try it without booking a call?
Sign up as a manager at gameisserious.com/manager/signup, set up a session in any format, share the code with your team, and run a pilot. No payment. Or use the "Talk to us" button at the top of this page to start a 15-minute discovery conversation before you commit.