Run a city. Own every tradeoff.
Civic Storyline is a policy strategy simulator where AI personas — a nurse, a landlord, a union organizer, a budget director — live with the consequences of your decisions. Balance housing, health, climate and jobs, and find out what actually happens to society.
Policy strategy with real stakes
Less Sims, more statecraft: every lever you pull has costs, delays and side effects that ripple through a living population.
Real Policy Levers
Zoning, taxation, transit, benefits, regulation. Pull a lever and watch the budget, the politics and the people respond.
Stress-Test Before You Legislate
Run the same policy across a hundred simulated years and a dozen economic shocks to see where it holds and where it breaks.
Living AI Personas
Every resident is an AI persona with a job, a budget, beliefs and relationships. They react in character, form coalitions and change their minds.
Grounded in Real Data
Scenarios start from real-world baselines for housing costs, emissions, health outcomes and public budgets, not fantasy numbers.
Open Scenario Engine
Write your own scenarios and persona packs, and plug in your own data. Built for classrooms, think tanks and curious citizens.
Many Fronts at Once
Housing, healthcare, climate, education and public safety compete for the same budget. Fix one and see what it does to the rest.
What early playtesters are saying
I tried to fix housing and accidentally broke transit funding. Best civics lesson I've had in years.
The personas push back in ways that feel uncomfortably real. My landlord persona organized against me by turn six.
It finally makes the case that there's no free lunch in policy, and makes you enjoy finding the least expensive one.
Frequently asked questions
Is Civic Storyline a game or a policy tool?
Both. It plays like a strategy game, with turns, goals and a score, but the underlying model is built to reflect real-world tradeoffs, so what you learn transfers.
How do the AI personas work?
Each persona has a profile (income, job, health, values, relationships) and an AI-driven decision process. They respond to your policies, to each other and to events, rather than following a fixed script.
What counts as winning?
You maximize a society-wide wellbeing index spanning prosperity, fairness, health and resilience. There is no single number to game, so you have to balance competing goals.
Can I use it in a classroom or with a team?
Yes. Shared scenarios, facilitator tools and group debriefs are planned for the Team and Institution plans. This is placeholder copy and details will change.