Fictional cases
Original worlds built for management practice—not borrowed plots with the names changed.
Original fictional case · systems under pressure
The Meridian Relay
Choose a response that restores trustworthy coordination without hiding uncertainty or transferring unacceptable risk to isolated crews.
Original case · common-mode failure
AEGIS Habitat
Decide whether and how the campus may open without treating certificates as proof of independent resilience.
Original case · metrics as governance
HELIX Performance Grid
Restore a useful measurement system without allowing it to conceal customer harm or control its own appeals.
Original case · AI evidence
ARGUS Claims
Set the next autonomy level using segmented evidence rather than fluent explanations or aggregate agreement.
Original case · strategic signalling
VESPER Alliance
Structure cooperation so a mistaken interpretation of partner intent does not become an irreversible dependency.
Original case · emergency authority
CONTINUITY 90
Return normal decision rights without pretending that residual technical risk has disappeared.
Original case · emergent systems
KESTREL Swarm
Reduce self-sustaining congestion without assuming that one controller can safely optimise the whole system.
Original case · migrating constraints
HELIOS Outpost
Keep critical service safe as the binding constraint moves between fuel, filters, generation and demand.
Original case · AI stewardship
NURTURE OS
Respond to vendor exit without losing state, hiding behavioural drift or preserving an unsafe legacy indefinitely.
Original case · informal power
COMMONS Lab
Make real authority visible and contestable without replacing every relationship with hierarchy.
Original case · distributed learning
MOSAIC Network
Make local AI quality experiments reusable without imposing one central model or spreading unverified practice.