The Orrery of Business Is Live

Pre-order OFMOS® Essential on Kickstarter through May 31. Three pilot Learning Guides, free today.

The Orrery Is Live The campaign for OFMOS® Essential — the orrery of business — is live on Kickstarter. 33 days. The work of more than two decades, in your hands. Pre-order OFMOS® Essential READ AND PASS ON. The Orrery of Business Is on Kickstarter OFMOS® Essential — a tabletop strategy game and learning system for 2–4 players, designed for a lifetime of play and learning — launched this morning on Kickstarter. Why a tabletop, and why now? AI makes it easy to outsource strategic reasoning — the tools are right there, and the answers come back fast. The capability erodes silently. OFMOS® Essential puts strategic thinking back to work — in a room, around a board, with other people, under real competitive pressure. It is the kind of practice AI cannot replace. The game is at the center of everything else. It can be played as pure abstract strategy, as a rigorous business simulation with structured debriefs, or as a facilitated strategy learning session, and the same rulebook supports all of it. Around the game, a body of work makes the deeper play possible — two foundational theories that explain why markets behave the way they do, the Five Business Big Pictures framework, and three pilot Learning Guides for facilitators. The campaign runs 33 days, through May 31. Early Bird: $85 — limited to 300 backers. Standard: $100. Bundles for schools and organizations available, including 5-Set and 10-Set Designer Onboarding Bundles with three structured deployment sessions (limited tiers).   Pre-order OFMOS® Essential JOIN THE MOVEMENT. The System Is Ready: Plan Your First Session For the educators, L&D professionals, coaches, and parents who have been following this work: the three pilot Strategy Learning Guides are available now as free downloads at ofmos.com. Each guide provides everything a facilitator needs to run a single-match learning session at one level of the framework using OFMOS® Essential — 60 to 90 minutes, 3 to 4 players per group, no prior business knowledge required. Each includes a structured three-phase debrief, a connection to the foundational theories, and three printable handouts: a quick-reference rules card, a post-session takeaway, and a score sheet. The Five Business Big Pictures is a strategy framework that identifies five levels at which strategic thinking operates. Three pilot guides are available now. If you're new to the framework, the Product Level is the natural entry point. Full guides for all five levels are in development. Strategy at the Individual Level — the CEO of your own mind. For coaches, self-learners, and anyone working on the quality of their own decisions. The first level. Each piece on the board is a decision. Each turn is a moment of strategic thinking practiced under competitive pressure. Synergies emerge as routines, processes, and workflows — multiple decisions working together as a coordinated system. The formula for success at this level is coherence: an integrated understanding of the need structure that underlies all strategic decisions. This is the unified mental model the strategist brings to every higher level. Learning Guide for Strategy at the Individual Level (Pilot Edition) — PDF Strategy at the Human-AI Level — the CEO of your AI tool portfolio. For professionals navigating AI adoption, L&D teams designing AI readiness programs, and anyone whose work is being reshaped by the tools they choose. At this level, the pieces are AI tools — instruments that shape decisions before the person acts. Tools commoditize. The strategic edge does not come from leftward automation that everyone adopts; it comes from rightward innovation, tools that deepen analytical capability and unlock insights that would be cognitively unreachable without them. The formula for success is cognitive alignment and AI tool synergies — ensuring the portfolio is aligned with the strategist's judgment and that the tools work together as a deliberate system, with the human mind in command. The key question this level surfaces: Who is the CEO of your AI tool portfolio? Learning Guide for Strategy at the Human-AI Level (Pilot Edition) — PDF Strategy at the Product Level — the CEO of your product portfolio. For product managers, product marketers, founders, and educators teaching strategy through products. The default simulation level and the natural entry point for the framework. Each piece is a product positioned in a market. Players experience commoditization as a structural force, not a competitive event. Innovation operates in three forms — increasing complexity, decreasing complexity, and shifting to a higher-perceived-value market. The formula for success is product innovation and product synergies — managing the portfolio as a system under both forces, not optimizing individual products in isolation. Learning Guide for Strategy at the Product Level (Pilot Edition) — PDF These free pilot guides are the first of five. The campaign supports the development of the rest — and gets the orrery into your hands. BE OUR PARTNER. Educators, L&D leaders, coaches: the 5-Set and 10-Set Designer Onboarding Bundles include three sessions with Cristian Mitreanu. Limited tiers, on the campaign page. THINK BIG & GOOD LUCK! Ofmos Newsletter | Ofmos Blog Copyright © 2026 Ofmos Universe, All rights reserved. This is an update from the Ofmos Universe team. Our mailing address is: Ofmos Universe PO Box 475732 San Francisco, CA 94147 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.