AI Literacy ยท Lecture 14

Grow the Firm

You are managing a marketing firm. Each round, there is a mix of client tasks your employees can complete, but each task requires a certain amount of experience. Every round, your existing employees gain experience, but they also get a raise and move closer to retirement. Your job is to maximize what your firm earns over time. Starting in Round 5, you can increase how much work each employee can handle by paying for AI assistance on their tasks.

Round
Payroll
The labor market is always open. Each round covers five years. Every retained worker gains five expertise points. Junior workers are common, mids cost more to hire externally, and true seniors are rare and short-lived.

Your workforce

Hiring market

Hire, fire, and revise your team at any time

Client opportunities

Contracts are ranked from hardest and most lucrative to easiest. Pick among the qualified people shown for each contract. AI arrives after the first few rounds; it reduces effort but never changes who is qualified.

Firm performance over time

Completed rounds: total income, employee spending, AI spending, and net revenue.

Round preview