OFMOS® Essential — The Strategy Game for the Age of AI
A project in San Francisco, CA by Cristian Mitreanu000days
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A strategy game with real depth. Play it as a game, a business simulation, or the core of a strategy learning system.
Backers: 22
Average Pledge Per Backer: $490
Funded: $10,776 of $9,999
Dates: Apr 28th -> May 31st (34 days)
Project By: Cristian Mitreanu
Backers: 22
Average Pledge Per Backer: $490
Funded: $10,776 of $9,999
Dates: Apr 28th -> May 31st (34 days)
Project By: Cristian Mitreanu
$10,776
current pledge level
Last Updated: May 31 @ 21:09 -0400 GMT
107%
of goal
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Latest News
Celebrating Human Agency 
May 30th - via: kickstarter.com
We’re in the final 36 hours of the campaign. Before it closes, I want to step back and tell you what ties it all together. CEO is not a job title. At least, not in our context. Whether we're talking about the game or our strategy framework — the... (Read More)
Back to Basics — It's a Fun Game!
May 28th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)
Every Move to the Right Contains a Whole World of Product Innovation
May 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Cristian Mitreanu, Network Effects as Product Innovation, 2026When you play the game as a simulation and move a piece to the right on the OFMOS® Essential game board, you are performing functionality-increasing product innovation — one of six... (Read More)
On the Board, Like in Business, Commoditization Is the Path of Least Resistance. Proceed at Your Own Risk.
May 19th - via: kickstarter.com
My latest Ofmos Blog post — Luxury Products: Running Up the Downward Escalator — argues that luxury products do not defy commoditization. In fact, they are among the most revealing cases, because the visible stillness masks the continuous work... (Read More)
Thinking with AI is its own strategic capability, and OFMOS® Essential is built to develop it
May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
In pursuit of success, each of us is a strategist in a complex, AI-shaped world. A new strategic capability has emerged. A new post on the Ofmos Blog argues that thinking with AI is a strategic capability that stands on its own — not a tool skill... (Read More)
A new illustration: How the game models the world and powers strategic thinking
May 5th - via: kickstarter.com
A good illustration of a system does something prose cannot: it shows relationships at a glance and keeps them available for inspection. The reader holds the whole at first sight and can return to any part of it without losing the overall picture.... (Read More)
Thank You to Our First Backers — and a Pointer to the Strategy Learning Guides: Part of the Strategy Capability Flywheel That Turns Around OFMOS® Essential
April 30th - via: kickstarter.com
To the backers who pledged early: thank you! Depending on how you choose to deploy it, OFMOS® Essential is an abstract strategy game in its simplest form; then a business simulation; and then, at its fullest depth, the center of a strategy... (Read More)
Business Is a Natural Phenomenon — and One Day Until Launch
April 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Last Friday, I published a post on the Ofmos Blog called "If Business Emerges Naturally, Strategizing Is an Existential Capability." It is the substantive case for why OFMOS® Essential exists. The argument is structural. Business is not a human... (Read More)
The Theory Behind OFMOS® Essential Just Hit the TEDx Stage
April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
The One-Need Theory of Behavior — the theory behind OFMOS® Essential — made it to the TEDx stage. On April 23, I gave a talk at TEDxDesign Tech HS titled "One Goal: The Hidden Structure That Shapes What You Become." The event's theme was... (Read More)
What kind of simulation is OFMOS® Essential?
April 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Happy Monday! We are officially counting down the days until our crowdfunding campaign goes live. To give you a look at the "engine" driving this project, I’ve excerpted a key section from our dense and useful FAQ page at www.ofmos.com/faq, where... (Read More)
A New Definition of Strategy — and Why AI Makes It Urgent
April 17th - via: kickstarter.com
OFMOS® Essential is built on two foundational theories developed over more than twenty years. Those theories don't just power the game — they produce a new definition of strategy that works at every level, from an individual's personal decisions... (Read More)
What AGI Has to Do with This Game
April 17th - via: kickstarter.com
OFMOS® Essential isn't just a strategy game — it's built on real theories about how business and the economy actually work. And those theories don't stop at the board. They apply to the real world too. Yesterday we published a blog post that takes... (Read More)
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