We've Got Systems™ is a darkly hilarious, sabotage-and-strategy card game created by OpenHouse. Designed to teach founders, innovators, and leaders how to survive — and outwit — a system engineered to compromise even the best intentions, it turns business model innovation into a strategic, playful rebellion.Part game, part social experiment, and all creative resistance, We've Got Systems helps players transform systemic traps into radical strategy and imaginative action.
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We're eliminating the friction and bias of traditional financing, connecting business builders to quick, easy capital, and helping small to mid-size businesses build something bigger.
In today's "conscious capitalism" landscape, critical system literacy is treated as optional. It isn't.
The problem:Traditional workshops made systems thinking dry and overly academic.Abstract conversations weren't helping people anticipate real-world systemic sabotage.We needed a tool that was irreverent, emotional, and strategic — all at once.
Our question: How could we make confronting systemic forces fun, while building real strategic muscles?
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At OPENHOUSE, we knew a different kind of design was needed—one that made people feel the system, not just study it. We sat around our studio table asking big questions:
* What if you could experience systemic sabotage in a way that made you laugh, not shut down?
* What if "business model innovation" could be turned into an act of collective play?
* What if radical imagination wasn't an abstract concept, but something you could practice like a sport?
We went to work blending three critical ingredients:
Narrative Design
We crafted storytelling mechanics where every venture wasn't just a pitch, it was a story of possibility, and every sabotage was a twist you had to outwit.
Behavioral Design
We designed gameplay that "tricked" players into deep learning, creating emotional highs and lows that mirrored real-world resilience building.
Systems Thinking
We structured sabotage and repair rounds around actual market forces, showing players how even well-meaning ventures can be destabilized—and how smart design can counter it.
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