01 · THE GAME
One seat is a whole company.
Not a worksheet about a business — a business. A student hires, prices, ships, and sits with the quarter they caused.
RUN
DECIDE
Down Round or Die
The valuation fell. So did your runway.
DEFEND
A year of company life, ended the only honest way: standing up and defending it.
02 · PERSONALISED, PROPERLY
Your syllabus,
not ours.
The knowledge inside the run and the standard the panel scores by can both be shaped to your program. Preparing a cohort for a business competition? Tune the rubric to the judging sheet. Teaching finance? Weight the events that stress the books.
Tell us what you teach. We tune the season with you, before it starts.
PITCH RUBRIC
YOURS, NOT STOCK
Problem and solution
Unit economics, argued from the year's books
Market size
Marketing mix, applied to a real launch
Confidence on camera
Sources of finance, weighed out loud
A memorable story
Your capstone criteria, scored at every year-end
03 · THE PANEL
An examiner that has
done its homework.
The five sharks are built and trained for exactly one job: interrogating a student’s company the way an investor would — from the student’s own numbers, in front of the class’s own standards.
LIVE TRANSCRIPT
00:47
“…gross margin is 41 points, up nine since the spring — the discounting experiment paid for itself, and I can show you where it shows up in the books…”
WHAT THE PANEL HEARD
CLAIMS TO PRESS: 3
VIKTOR
“Show me. Which line of the books did the discount move?”
04 · THE SEASON
Seated in minutes. Scored all season.
YOUR CHAPTER
35 SEATS
seat 01 · a•••@yourschool.edu
INVITEDCLAIMEDseat 02 · j•••@yourschool.edu
INVITEDCLAIMEDseat 03 · m•••@yourschool.edu
INVITEDCLAIMED
Invite by email or register a whole class from a list. Every seat is Pro for the year, and no student is asked for a card. The roster survives renewal — and even a lapse.
STILL STANDING
1Brave Falcon 4821
7 yrs standing
2Quiet Harbor 118
6 yrs standing
3Solar Badger 77
5 yrs standing
4Iron Kestrel 3042
4 yrs standing
A board scoped to your chapter, over anonymous handles, season by season — every number re-verified by the server before it ranks. Built for competitions, honest by construction.
A place on the board is never for sale — that rule is enforced in the build, not the marketing.
05 · THE CARE
Built for minors, on purpose.
Video never leaves the device
Delivery is analysed on the student's own hardware; the frames are discarded, not uploaded.
Anonymous in public
Boards run on curated handles and moderated company names — never real names, never exact timestamps.
No tracking in the mail
Seat invitations are plain messages. A student's email is visible to their own teacher, and to no one else.
Nothing buys a score
Score, survival, revives and board position are unpurchasable at any price, in any build.
The camera is the product — so the camera is where the care went.
Bring Novus to your institution.
Tell us about your class, club, cohort or competition — what you teach, what you score, how many seats. We set the chapter up and tune the season with you.
Licences run $799 a year for 35 seats and $1,599 for 100. Any other size is arranged over email, above. Every seat is Pro, and no student ever pays.