Decision infrastructure for the game ecosystem

Lift the whole cohort. Not just the standouts.

You want every studio in your cohort to succeed. Mentors and capital aren’t enough — and most programs offer roughly the same. The edge worth building is the infrastructure your studios couldn’t justify on their own.

Iridae is composed Bayesian decision infrastructure — pre-trained on continuously updating industry-wide data, running as a closed loop behind every commercial decision your studios make. The same category of system publishers, platforms, and investors already operate with. Given to the cohort as a program benefit. Used by program staff to support studios more effectively. Not market intelligence. Not a research firm. Not a dashboard. Not a copilot. The decision infrastructure your program offers that no other does.

Set every studio up from day one.

A studio enters the program with conviction about what they’re building but limited commercial calibration. Iridae gives every incoming studio a calibrated read from intake — comps, audience fit, commercial range — so they spend the program building forward instead of starting from baseline analysis. The work that would take weeks at a research firm is already done before week one.

Support the cohort with more than office hours.

Mentors are part-time, expert in their domain, and available only when scheduled. Iridae runs continuously across every studio in the cohort, surfacing drift between the game being built and the market it’s building for. Program staff see where each studio actually stands — and where the cohort collectively needs help — without waiting for a session.

Send studios into publisher rooms with the math.

Studios leave the program to pitch publishers, platforms, and investors who operate with their own decision infrastructure. Iridae sends them with calibrated commercial cases of their own — revenue distributions backed by comps, audience reads with posterior confidence, plans that hold up under scrutiny. The asymmetry that punishes program graduates stops favoring the other side of the table.

Prove the program is the edge it claims to be.

Most programs report on outcomes after the fact — alumni placements, capital raised, games shipped. Iridae lets program staff track cohort trajectory continuously, demonstrate value to LPs and sponsors with calibrated reads, and build a defensible track record of what the program actually contributes. Outcomes measured against original commitments, not narratives told after.

Two instances. One mission.

The studios in your cohort need decision infrastructure too. They also need it to feel like theirs — owned by the studio, not watched by the program.

Iridae solves this structurally. Each party runs their own instance. The studio’s development data stays inside the studio’s system. What flows between you are calibrated beliefs the studio chooses to surface — commercial confidence, audience alignment, strategic readiness — not raw data, not a monitoring layer.

For studios, decision infrastructure they own. For program staff, a calibrated read on where each studio actually stands. Same federated model publishers can deploy — structured here around lifting the cohort, not extracting value from it.

For the studios

  • Calibrated reads from day one
  • Commercial cases without research firms
  • Audience signals without quarterly delays
  • Pitch decks built on evidence
  • Independence from publisher-owned reads
  • Infrastructure they couldn’t justify alone
  • A market read on any concept
  • Conviction that’s earned, not borrowed

For the program

  • Cohort visibility on signals studios share
  • Drift surfaced before reviews
  • Mentor matches based on real evidence
  • Staff support grounded in data
  • Resources allocated where they actually help
  • A federated model studios trust
  • Aggregate signal across the cohort
  • Differentiation publishers can’t match

For the long game

  • Outcomes measured against original cases
  • Track record built on calibrated evidence
  • Memory that compounds across cohorts
  • Data-backed reports for LPs and sponsors
  • Cohort health monitored continuously
  • Market shifts surfaced in time
  • Curriculum tuned to actual struggles
  • Program edge you can prove