LucidWargames

LucidQuest has long been trusted to run high-impact, in-person and virtual strategy workshops, the kind where leadership teams align fast, pressure-test assumptions, and leave with clear decisions.

But we kept seeing the same ceiling across even the best workshops:

• Outcomes were often shaped by who was in the room, who spoke most, and which assumptions went unchallenged

• Scenarios stayed “static”, a few branches, a few slides, limited rounds

• It was hard to quantify uncertainty, compare options objectively, or run the same scenario repeatedly to see how it breaks

So we built the next step.

The evolution: from workshops to a war room operating system

LucidWargames is LucidQuest’s multi-agent wargaming engine that supercharges the wargame process.

It keeps the best parts of workshops, senior judgment, speed, alignment, high engagement, but adds what workshops cannot do at scale:

• Dynamic, evolving simulations instead of one-off narratives

• AI competitors that adapt, counter-move, and exploit weak signals

• Objective adjudication against weighted KPIs each round

• Monte Carlo batching to run scenarios 100+ times and generate probability maps

In short, you still get strategic clarity, but now with statistical rigor and repeatability.

Two ways to run a LucidWargame

1) Human vs. AI Play (executive team in the driver’s seat)
Your leadership team becomes the “Blue Team.” You make the moves in real time, and AI competitor teams respond with plausible strategies, constraints, and second-order effects. LucidQuest facilitates, keeps the game honest, and ensures insights translate into decisions.

2) Full AI Simulation (zero-touch, unbiased baseline)
Step back entirely. Autonomous AI agents run the wargame end-to-end. This is ideal for rapid hypothesis testing, exploring edge cases, and establishing an unbiased reference point before humans even enter the room.

What it delivers

LucidWargames produces decision-ready outputs across:

• Competitive strategy and scenario planning

• Market entry and positioning

• Pricing, access, reimbursement, and policy shocks

• Regulatory pathway risk

• Portfolio prioritization and capital allocation

• Partnering, M&A, and integration synergies

• Operational risk (manufacturing, supply chain, capacity)

And unlike traditional workshops, you can quantify the “how likely,” not just the “what if.”

Built for complexity, across any sector

While originally forged in BioPharma and HealthTech, the engine is sector-agnostic.

• BioPharma & HealthTech: LOE, class entrants, reimbursement, payer negotiations, evidence strategy
• Finance, Hedge Funds, VC, Investors & Startups: thesis validation, disruption scenarios, M&A, market entry stress-tests
• Energy & Manufacturing: supply chain shocks, regulatory changes, industrial competitive strategy

If there is competition, regulation, and uncertainty, we can simulate it.

If you’ve worked with LucidQuest workshops before, LucidWargames will feel familiar, but faster, deeper, and far more scalable.

Contact us at info@lqventures.com to discuss a LucidWargames or a traditional wargame engagement.