Complex situations. Live conversations. Teachable evidence.
Crucible Cases turns a written business case into a live simulation — then turns what each student actually did into material you can teach from.
A library of role-based business simulations
Each case puts the student inside a decision that matters — leading a team, running a negotiation, managing a crisis, diagnosing a failure.
Every simulation is anchored by a written case — and a teaching note for instructors
Students read and annotate the full case before or during class. Instructors get a complete teaching note to study in advance — learning objectives, a board plan, expected student responses, course-management strategies, and the discussion arc.
Students speak with the case — not about it.
Voice or text conversations in real time, with characters who have their own goals, interests, and authority — and who push back.
Every conversation, transcribed and analyzed
Conversations are automatically transcribed and analyzed — giving each student specific feedback and grounding the class debrief in what was actually said.
Work through dense, real artifacts
Students inspect evidence files, judge reliability, and decide how to structure the deliverable — including when to outsource analysis to AI and when human discernment is needed.
From the live section view to a ready-to-teach deck
See the decision patterns and tension points across your whole section — then turn what actually happened into a PowerPoint debrief in a single click.
Built by a business school professor, for business school professors
Every simulation draws on decades of research on practice, reflection, and feedback — and recent work on immersive learning.
Step into the case.
Create a free instructor account to explore the platform, or tell us about a simulation you want built for your course.