Boardroom Adventure

Serious gameEnterprise designEDGY
The Boardroom Adventure cover card fanned out with Organisation and Experience facet cards and stakeholder cards
The not-so-serious game that seriously bridges silos. One year in.
  • 400+decks sold in the first year
  • 180unique scenarios to play
  • 100players in one room, at once
  • 1 hto feel what enterprise design changes
Enterprise design is hard to explain and easy to feel. So we stopped explaining it and made a game.

In Boardroom Adventure (La Partie Prenante in French), a team builds an organization from scratch and sees how strategy, roles and decisions pull on each other. It runs on EDGY, the open enterprise design language, and plays in 60 to 90 minutes with 3 to 6 players per table. The 180 scenarios range from start-ups to a secret society reinventing everyday life. Your org chart is probably less weird. Probably.

Boardroom Adventure card decks on the laser-cut wooden board, next to a black drawstring bag
Pick your enterprise. A thrift shop saving the planet, a secret society, a startup, a ministry. Then give it a daring ambition.
Build it together. Each player holds a stakeholder card and speaks for that part of the organization, using the EDGY language.
Put it to the test. Challenges hit the design. Watch it thrive or unravel, and see why.
Bring it back to work. Once the moves are familiar, the same table tackles a real problem, fast.

Why it works

Because the design does the teaching, and because nothing in it belongs to one industry. A fictional enterprise is low risk: nobody's job is on the table, so people try bold moves and laugh when they fail. In about an hour they share a vocabulary and a way of looking at the whole organization. Then the same table can take on a real problem, and it goes fast. Nobody has ever been fired from a fictional thrift shop.

  1. 1Play a fictional enterpriseLow risk, high fun.
  2. 2Learn the movesStakeholders, purpose, experience, structure.
  3. 3Tackle a real problemSame table, same language, real stakes.
A full room of round tables at a Polytechnique Montréal session, every table playing at once

A full room at the Polytechnique Montréal session.

Who has played

Large organizations ran it with their teams, small groups used it to work on real problems, and it held up just as well with teenagers and with retirees.

Played by teams at Hydro-Québec, Polytechnique Montréal and Capitale Numérique, and by 100 people at once at Rendez-vous numérique.

  • Large enterprises
  • Universities
  • Non-profits
  • Leadership teams
  • Project teams
  • Teenagers
  • Retirees
Close-up of a game board filled with handwritten stakeholder notes around the three EDGY circles
A player pointing across the table at the cards in play
Players around a table, mid-discussion, cards spread out
A small group around the table, cards in hand, mid-discussion
A player sketching the team's enterprise on the table while another watches
The laser-cut wooden board in play: stakeholder cards and handwritten notes on the three EDGY circles, a player holding up a card
A Hydro-Québec team session at HEC Montréal: a room of tables playing at once, the game's slides on the screens

Left: the wooden board mid-game with Capitale Numérique. Right: a Hydro-Québec team session, hosted at HEC Montréal.

Boardroom Adventure isn't just a game. It's a powerful conversation tool that gets everyone in the right mindset to innovate and challenge decisions. A bit like putting humans in ChatGPT's seat!

Félix Quenneville, CorpoSapiens

My EDGY board is now my North Star: it keeps our whole team aligned.

Carole-Ann Labrie, Co-founder and CEO, Capitale Numérique

Where Boardroom Adventure is today

The First Edition is on sale at boardroomadventure.com: 180 scenarios, 3 to 6 players, 60 to 90 minutes. &friends also runs it as a facilitated half-day workshop. In French, the game is La Partie Prenante.

  • 400+decks sold in the first year, by &friends' count
  • 180scenarios in the First Edition

What's next

In the works

An AI extension

An extension that brings AI into the game, so teams can explore it with the same enterprise design moves they just learned.

In the works

A digital version

The same game online, built to kick off an enterprise design initiative: play first, then carry the board straight into the real project.

The AI extension cards fanned out: Extension La Partie Prenante, Intelligence artificielle
A beta test of the AI extension: two tables of players in a pub, cards and drinks on the tables

The AI extension in beta, 2026.

400+ decks in a year, and the same game works in a boardroom, a classroom or a room of 100.boardroomadventure.com

Credits

Game design and facilitation
Jean-Sébastien Daigle · &friends
Publisher
&friends
Enterprise design language
EDGY · Intersection Group