Universities and academia
Authentic assessment for the age of AI.
- Students in a single exercise, at most
- 250
- Of students rate it among their best experiences at university
- 95%
- Not weeks, to build a scenario
- Hours
Outcomes
Where future leaders learn to decide.
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AI-proof assessment
When anyone can generate an essay, prove capability differently.
Students interpret, communicate and decide as events unfold. You assess what they actually do.
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From theory to practice
Knowing the answer and knowing what to do are different things.
Students apply what they’ve learned amid ambiguity, competing priorities and real consequences.
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Employment-ready experience
Graduate with more than a transcript.
Communication, judgement and leadership, practised under pressure and backed by evidence.
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Scale without scaling staff
More students shouldn’t mean more exercise controllers.
AI role-players and exercise control carry the load across cohorts and campuses.
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Measure what your course values
Every student leaves a decision trail.
Hindsight is configured to your rubric and graduate attributes. Feedback for every student and team, benchmarked across cohorts.
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Build once. Teach for years.
Your scenarios, semester after semester.
Reuse, adapt and improve them as your course evolves.
For think tanks and research institutes
Test ideas. Observe decisions. Generate evidence.
The world doesn’t need another panel discussion.
Turn a policy question into a live scenario. Watch real people decide. Leave with evidence, not opinions.
- 01Hypothesis
- 02Live scenario
- 03Evidence
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Research at scale
Compare decisions across hundreds of participants, cohorts and scenarios.
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Convene differently
Policymakers, executives and researchers navigate a shared problem, not a panel.
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Build influence
Programs that draw decision-makers and funders.
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Make the thinking dynamic
The scenario reacts to every decision, so assumptions get tested.
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Publishable evidence
Export decision data for your own analysis.
Your IP. Your revenue.
Scenarios you build are yours to reuse and commercialise. We can partner on grant applications.
Scenarios we run
Built around your course.
Matched to your learning outcomes. Steer, pause or add as it runs.
Weigh contradictory information, draft urgent briefs, manage the press.
Escalate to the board and front the media during an outage or activist campaign.
Practise the decisions their roles demand, in government, industry and emergency services.
Turn a research question into a simulation. Capture what participants chose, not what they said they’d do.
How it works
Foresight: the flight simulator for crisis leadership.
Pilots don’t learn emergencies in a lecture theatre. They get in the simulator. So should your students.
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Design
Build it around your course and rubric, in hours.
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Deploy
Students go live, in role, against agentic AI actors.
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Debrief
Hindsight maps what each student knew, said and did to your rubric.
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Develop
Evidence-based feedback. Run it again. Watch them improve.
Track record
Delivered exercises.
- Students
- 196
- Weeks
- 2
- Rated it among their best experiences at university
- 97%
Exercise Hard Shell: a Pacific island state in crisis, for national security education.
01DeliveredNational security education
Exercise Hard Shell
196 students, two weeks, a Pacific island state in crisis. 97% rated it among their best experiences at university.
Inside Hard Shell
02DeliveredIntelligence collection and analysis
Honeypots and Overcoats
A tsunami, an assassination plot, a cyber attack and a great-power crisis arrived together. Participants triaged disinformation and open-source intelligence while a recurring cast of agentic actors pressed them for decisions.
Inside Honeypots and Overcoats
Built for teaching
Educators in charge.
- Partnership by invitationA select group of leading universities. Close support. Scenarios shaped with your faculty.
- AccessibleBuilt so every student can take part.
- Fair to every studentHindsight tracks each student’s decisions, even inside a team.
- Student data stays yoursIt never trains our models. Australian hosting available.
Built for
- Think tanks and research institutes
- Undergraduate, postgraduate and executive students
- Course convenors
- Tutors
- Exercise controllers
Supports your evidence for
Higher Education Standards Framework (TEQSA)- Australian Qualifications Framework
QAA Quality Code
Recognised institutional accreditors- AACSB
- EQUIS
- Assessment rubrics
- Course learning outcomes
- Professional standards
By invitation
Which decisions do your students need to practise?
We partner with a few universities each year. Tell us about your course and we’ll show you a first exercise.