The Owner's Day · a game about running a small business

One owner. Three plates. A proposal due at 5:00 pm.

You run Marlow Leather Co. Northline Stores, a chain of twelve shops, wants a wholesale proposal for 400 bags by 5:00 pm. Your inbox and your suppliers' invoices keep arriving while you write it.

1. 1

   Inbox

   Reply to customers and leads before they give up. Archive the junk. Forward invoices to accounts. A reply takes 12 to 16 minutes of your day.

2. 2

   Invoices

   Compare each invoice with its purchase order. Approve the ones that match. Hold anything that doesn't.

3. 3

   Proposal

   It only moves while you stay on it. Each time you come back, it takes a few minutes to get going again.

Play the day on your own, then replay the same day with two agents working alongside you. Each round lasts two minutes.