E.I. Games

What E.I. Games does

E.I. Games is a privately held Miami Beach-based company that develops story-based, choice-driven gamified simulations for higher-education institutions and corporate training departments. Its core platform is built around an 'Emotional Intelligent Design' methodology in which players navigate branching, text-based narratives and make decisions that cultivate empathy, leadership, ethics, communication, project-management, and decision-making skills — replacing traditional lecture-based and textbook content. The product portfolio consists of seven distinct games: EQ Leadership, Business Ethics, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Communication Skills, Organizational Assessment, and Student Success, alongside personalized/ custom-developed simulations for individual institutions.

Underlying the simulations is a text-driven interactive narrative engine rather than generative AI; the differentiation rests on pedagogical design and narrative craft rather than machine-learning capability. The company's intellectual property is also extended through three published books by founder Dr. Kevin Allen — 'The Hidden Agenda' (Wall Street Journal bestseller), 'The Case of the Missing Cutlery,' and 'Emotify!' — which act as both a revenue stream and an upstream awareness channel.

Commercially, E.I. Games operates a consultative, demo-driven enterprise sales motion: all game licensing inquiries route through 'Request a demo' CTAs to [email protected], implying multi-year institutional or corporate contracts at undisclosed prices. The company reports 1–10 employees, is privately held with no disclosed funding, and is backed by Arizona State University alongside named customers including Google, Oracle, Expedia, Harvard, Duke, Ball State, and Ashford University. Books are sold via Amazon as one-off consumer purchases. The company appears founder-led and bootstrapped, with marketing centered on content (blog, organic social), speaker appearances, professor testimonials, and the founder's thought-leadership platform.

Name

E.I. Games

Legal name

E.I. Games

Website

https://eigames.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

E.I. Games builds story-based, choice-driven gamified simulations that teach emotional intelligence, leadership, ethics, and business skills, licensing them to universities and corporations via consultative enterprise sales, complemented by founder-authored books.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Gamified Learning Simulations (Education Technology)

NAICS

Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries (713)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Serious Games & Simulation Studios (Training, Defense, Enterprise) (MPAFAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Simulation, Scenario & Serious Games Design (EDAGAKAH)

Keywords

• Gamified learning simulations
• Story-based training
• Emotional intelligence games
• Higher education software
• Soft skills e-learning

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami Beach

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Gamified Course/Game Licensing: E.I. Games licenses its gamified simulation courses to higher education institutions (colleges, universities) and corporations for use in academic and corporate training programs. Sales are made via direct demo and consultative enterprise sales cycles, with multi-year institutional contracts implied by the B2B sales motion.
2. Book Sales: The company generates revenue through the sale of books authored by Dr. Kevin Allen, including 'The Hidden Agenda', 'The Case of the Missing Cutlery', and 'Emotify!'. Books are sold via Amazon and serve as both a revenue stream and a marketing tool to establish thought leadership in game-based learning.
3. Personalized Learning Plans / Custom Game Development: E.I. Games offers personalized learning plans and tailored games to meet the unique needs of individual students and institutions, implying a services/consulting component alongside the core product licensing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

E.I. Games develops and licenses a portfolio of seven story-based, choice-driven simulation games (EQ Leadership, Business Ethics, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Communication Skills, Organizational Assessment, and Student Success) that teach emotional intelligence, leadership, ethics, and soft skills through interactive narratives. The company sells multi-year institutional licenses to colleges, universities, and corporate training departments, with sales initiated via a 'Request a Demo' consultative process, and offers personalized learning plans and custom game development as adjacent services.

Product overview

E.I. Games is a gamification platform for higher education offering a portfolio of story-based simulations powered by Emotional Intelligent Design. The core product line consists of seven interactive games: EQ Leadership Game, Business Ethics Game (award-winning), Project Management Game (five games in series), Entrepreneurship Game, Communication Skills Game, Organizational Assessment Game, and Student Success Game (award-winning). These gamified courses are complemented by personalized learning solutions and three published books (Emotify, The Hidden Agenda, and The Case of the Missing Cutlery) by Founder and CEO Dr. Kevin Allen. The platform replaces traditional corporate and academic training with immersive, choice-driven narratives that cultivate empathy, decision-making, and emotional intelligence in students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EQ Leadership Game: Gamified experience designed for college students to master emotional intelligence and effective leadership skills.
• Business Ethics Game
• Project Management Game
• Entrepreneurship Game
• Communication Skills Game
• Organizational Assessment Game
• Student Success Game

Products and services

• EQ Leadership Game Interactive, choice-driven simulation that helps college students master emotional intelligence and effective leadership skills through immersive narrative scenarios fostering critical thinking and collaboration.
• Business Ethics Game Award-winning gamified simulation that teaches the importance of ethics in business decision-making, designed for professionals, managers, and students.
• Project Management Game Collection of five interactive games that build skills needed to successfully plan and execute projects while fostering emotionally intelligent professional networks for students and professionals.
• Entrepreneurship Game Interactive simulation that helps professionals, managers, and students develop the emotional intelligence needed to inspire confidence and galvanise a team in an entrepreneurial context.
• Communication Skills Game Interactive simulation focused on the role of emotional intelligence in effective communication, teaching skills for pitching and persuading ideas.
• Organizational Assessment Game Simulation that creates fair, equitable, and responsive measures of leadership, business culture, organisational health, and performance with emotional intelligence assessment capabilities.
• Student Success Game Award-winning gamified first-year course, created in collaboration with college students, designed to address student dropout rates and serve as a support and early warning system for at-risk first-year students.
• Personalized Games / Tailored Learning Plans Custom-developed gamified learning solutions with personalised learning plans designed to meet the unique needs of individual students and institutions.
• The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Win Business and Create a Following (Book) Wall Street Journal bestselling business book by Dr. Kevin Allen on creating connection-based persuasion and building a following.
• The Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star (Book) Leadership book by Dr. Kevin Allen featuring real-life stories and the Buoyancy Course on individual compassion.
• Emotify! The Power of the Human Element in Game-Based Learning (Book) Book by Dr. Kevin Allen on the human element in game-based learning, serious games, and experiential education.

Quantifiable outcome

• Addressed student drop-out rates and served as a support and early warning system for first-year college students — described as 'an award-winning gamified course, created in collaboration with College Students, proven to address student drop-out rates'

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Hypothetical (Sapience) — Classroom-Building Simulations: Adjacent comparator — niche serious-game studio publishing business simulations and ethics games for higher-ed business programs; serves a similar faculty buyer (business school deans and ethics centers) but with a narrower product footprint.

Broad incumbents

• MindTickle: MindTickle is a broader sales-readiness and corporate training platform incorporating role-play simulations. Comparable on the soft-skills/sales training use case, though MindTickle is a larger incumbent offering a wider portfolio beyond pure simulation.
• Lessonly (Seismic): Lessonly (now part of Seismic) is a corporate learning and training enablement platform with interactive role-play and simulation-like content. Comparable as an enterprise L&D solution competing for the same corporate training budget allocation.

Emerging players

• SimInsights: SimInsights creates VR-based immersive simulations for soft-skills training in sales, leadership, and employee development. Overlaps with E.I. Games on scenario-based experiential learning but with a stronger VR/3D delivery focus.
• Articulate (Storyline/Rise): Articulate provides widely adopted e-learning authoring tools, including Storyline 360 and Rise, used by training departments worldwide. Adjacent in serving the same L&D authoring and content delivery motion, with partial overlap via gamified scenario-based modules.
• Inkblot Therapy / Kognito: Kognito builds immersive, conversation-driven simulations for healthcare, education, and workforce training on topics like mental health and difficult conversations. Comparable choice-driven narrative approach and similar use cases in higher-ed and professional skill-building.

Direct peers

• Forio (Simulations): Forio builds browser-based business simulations used in business schools and corporate training, including ethics, leadership, and strategy games. Highly comparable on both product type (story-driven simulations) and target customer base (higher-ed business schools and corporate training departments).
• Mursion: Mursion provides AI- and human-powered VR simulations for workplace soft-skills training (leadership, sales, difficult conversations). Directly comparable to E.I. Games' choice-driven narrative simulations targeting the same enterprise training buyers, with similar pedagogy around practice-based EQ development.
• Talespin: Talespin offers an immersive XR platform for workforce upskilling and soft-skills simulation. Comparable in combining narrative simulation with leadership and communication development, with a similar enterprise go-to-market and content library approach.
• Practice.coaching (Practice): Practice provides conversational AI-driven coaching and simulation for managers and frontline leaders. Directly comparable as a simulation-first soft-skills training platform for enterprise L&D and individual contributors.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@kevinallenspeaker
• Facebookfacebook.com/FlexyourEQ
• Instagraminstagram.com/kevinallenspeaker

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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