Doppler/Edward

REDLINE

SIMULATION ENGINE FOR FINANCE DECISIONS UNDER REAL CONSTRAINTS

An interactive CFO office where students, managers, and executives learn to push a business to the edgewithout detonating the P&L in real life.

STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT PILOT PARTNERS WANTED
Request Demo Discuss Pilot / Investment
[001]

WHAT REDLINE IS

What is Redline?

Redline is a simulation engine that teaches financial decision-making, not spreadsheet key-mashing.

Set inside a fictional industrial company, Redline drops players into a live CFO office: inventory, capacity, working capital, customer contracts, and a board breathing down their necks. No multiple-choice fantasiesevery move flows through full financial statements and a real operating model.

Participants don't "learn concepts." They run a business under pressure:

  • Pricing, discounting, and trade terms
  • Volume risk, supply chain shocks, and production constraints
  • Cash flow crunches, credit risk, and audit scrutiny

Redline is built for the people who actually have to answer, "Why did we miss?"and for the educators and leaders who want them to miss less.

+
+
[002]

CORE SYSTEMS

Three integrated systems, one objective: teach the real cost of every decision.

MODULE_01 LIVE PROTOTYPE

DECISION ENGINE

The in-game company has a full financial backbone:

  • Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow
  • Inventory and production capacity
  • Customer and contract portfolio

Every decision (pricing, promo, volume commitments, supplier terms) drives real financial consequencesgood, bad, or ugly. No abstract "score," just the numbers you'd have to explain in a board pack.

MODULE_02 LIVE PROTOTYPE

SCENARIO & TELEMETRY LAYER

Redline runs as a sequence of scenariossupply shocks, demand spikes, cost increases, contract renegotiations.

Under the hood, a telemetry engine tracks:

  • Choices made (what, when, and in what order)
  • Impact on margin, liquidity, and risk
  • Time-to-decision and information used

This creates a decision fingerprint for each participant or team, making it easy to debrief: not just what they decided, but how they thought.

MODULE_03 EXPERIMENTAL

LLM-ASSISTED DYNAMICS

Redline uses a controlled GenAI layer to add semi-dynamic content:

  • News feeds that surface shocks and opportunities
  • Supplier and customer "emails" and draft contracts
  • Nudges and challenge prompts that stress-test the player's reasoning

The AI does not run the show; it adds noise and realism. The financial logic and scoring remain fully transparent and auditable.

+
+
[003]

WHERE REDLINE FITS

Built for serious training environments where role-play isn't enough and Excel isn't engaging.

UNIVERSITIES & BUSINESS SCHOOLS

  • Courses in Finance, FP&A, Strategy, Accounting, Operations, and RGM
  • Replace static case studies with live, multi-period simulations
  • Give students something more realistic than a clean Harvard case and a retrofitted answer key

CORPORATE FP&A, RGM & FINANCE ACADEMIES

  • Onboard new analysts and managers with a safe sandbox
  • Run team-based war games ahead of budget season or major investments
  • Train cross-functional teams (Finance, Sales, Supply Chain) to speak the same P&L language

PRIVATE EQUITY & INVESTORS

  • Use Redline as a tabletop for management teams: how do they react under real constraints?
  • Stress-test pricing, capacity, and capital allocation instincts before handing over real money
+
+
[004]

BUILD LOG

Representative milestones from the current build. Names simplified; structure is real.

BUILD_LOG_001

CFO OFFICE PROTOTYPE

COMPLETE
  • Godot 4.5-based simulation with an interactive CFO office
  • Hotspots for financials, news, contracts, and compendium content
  • Dynamic financial panel wired to scenario data (top line, margin, cash)
BUILD_LOG_002

SCENARIO ENGINE & DATA LAYER

COMPLETE
  • JSON-driven scenario structure (12+ scenarios planned)
  • Each scenario ties to: financials, news, supplier contracts, and risk levers
  • Transform layer ready for "carry-forward" cumulative financials
BUILD_LOG_003

CONTRACT & NEWS GENERATION

IN PROGRESS
  • Supplier framework contract templates with variable injection
  • API concept for LLM-generated clause variations and news items under strict schema
  • Goal: 70% structured, 30% dynamicno black-box magic
BUILD_LOG_004

TELEMETRY & ADMIN TOOLS

PLANNED
  • Telemetry singleton to log decisions, timing, panel views, and submissions
  • Google Sheets / DB integration for instructor dashboards
  • Admin mode to jump scenarios, pause logging, and control difficulty
+
+
[005]

INITIATE REDLINE

To discuss pilots, licensing, or investment:

> joshua@doppleredward.com

Subject line: REDLINE