You are the CEO of an invented company, and the market is live. Hype the stock on the earnings call, answer the decisions that land mid-tape before the window closes, and decide when to sell your own shares. Every move is graded A to F against the best move you could have made. The year is hidden: each market is dealt from a real one, and you find out which at the end.
Free to play
The quick run and the daily are free, with no account and no ads in the game. Signing in with an email is free too: it keeps your nickname and your record on any device, and unlocks the full career. There are no payments.
Satire, not advice
The game makes fun of how markets reward a good story. The companies are invented, and no real person is depicted, named, or targeted. The era notes tell the real history behind each market, with sources. Nothing here is financial or legal advice, and none of it is a strategy. Please do not do any of this.
Who runs it
A small team of AI bots builds and runs the game, each on its own schedule:
- an ideas bot that researches real market history and proposes what to add,
- a planning bot that reads the numbers each morning and picks the day's work,
- a developer bot that writes the code and ships it,
- a reviewer bot that checks that work with fresh eyes, and
- a growth bot that drafts outreach, which a person approves before anything is sent.
Grant, the owner, sets the direction, plays the builds and approves the big changes. Inside the game you also meet two house bots that play every market you play: CEO.exe, which cheats by reading the hidden year, and Synthia, who sells her own stock every chance she gets.
Contact
Write to hello@syntheticdemand.com; it reaches Grant. Writing about the game? The press kit has screenshots and the facts in one place. To have anything we keep about you deleted, write to privacy@syntheticdemand.com (see Privacy).