A branching visual novel that teaches enterprise sales judgment, built to close the gap between knowing a framework and using it under pressure.
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AE and AM
FORMAT
Game Experience
DURATION
On-Demand
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Developed and Tested
Sales training usually tells reps what to do in a deal. This puts them in one.
The Meridian Deal is a branching narrative simulation set inside a high-stakes enterprise sales cycle. You play as the account executive on a competitive deal with a skeptical economic buyer, a divided buying committee, and a timeline that isn't what it appears to be.
Every decision you make... how you open discovery, how you handle objections, whether you push or pull back at the right moments... affects your Trust score, your Deal Health, and ultimately whether you win, stall, or lose the business. The game tracks hidden flags throughout the story and surfaces them in a full scoring debrief at the end.
Why This Training Was Needed
Reps moving from SMB to enterprise selling face a specific challenge: the skills that worked at lower deal values, quick closes, feature-led demos, single-threaded relationships, actively hurt them at enterprise. The mental models have to change, not just the tactics.
Traditional training covers frameworks like MEDDIC, multi-threading, and executive alignment in slides and roleplay. What it rarely creates is the felt experience of navigating a real deal where the right move isn't obvious, the buyer isn't cooperative, and every choice has a downstream consequence.
That's the gap this simulation was built to close.
I designed and wrote The Meridian Deal as a complete interactive narrative, scripting the branching story structure, developing the characters and deal context, and building the scoring logic that evaluates rep judgment across each decision point.
The simulation uses a hidden flag and scoring system that accumulates across the full playthrough, rewarding reps who demonstrate disciplined discovery, multi-stakeholder awareness, and deal qualification, and surfacing the consequences of shortcuts in the debrief. Every branch was written to feel realistic rather than obviously right or wrong, which is what makes the judgment challenge meaningful.
Like The Coaching Room, the full build, content, architecture, and code, was completed using AI-assisted development, demonstrating applied AI fluency as part of the work itself.
A fully playable simulation that can serve as pre-work for enterprise sales training, a self-assessment tool for reps transitioning from SMB, or a standalone demonstration of scenario-based learning design. The Meridian Deal ships as a single HTML file, zero setup, runs in any browser, no IT involvement required.