In 2013, ExpertTheory CEO Daveed Gartenstein-Ross was teaching at Georgetown University, and his class wasn't landing. While the material was right and students were engaged, something wasn't connecting. So he did what any good teacher would do... he designed a game. And suddenly, concepts that had been impossible to teach clicked. It became clear that putting people inside the problem — under pressure, making real decisions — was categorically more effective. The only problem was that building that kind of experience was hard. (Seriously, genuinely hard.) Designing a single simulation meant months of work — writing scenarios, building team materials, crafting the logic that makes an exercise actually teach something – and it required specialized expertise that most educators and organizations simply don't have. And even for those who did, the time and resources it demanded put it out of reach for all but a handful of institutions.

 

ExpertTheory was built to change that. Providence is our AI-powered simulation platform that makes immersive, custom learning and training experiences accessible to anyone, without the months of design work it used to require. And for organizations that want an extra hand — or want to hand it off entirely — our team will come in and build the whole thing from scratch. We've validated the methodology through a DHS-funded mixed-methods study and run simulations for Top 10 Tech Companies, think tanks, the U.S. Department of War, U.S. Army, Canadian Department of National Defence, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Arizona State University, and more. We've proven that the methodology works, and now we're building a platform where everyone can use it.