Interpretive Business Simulations vs The Business School
Interpretive Business Simulations
interpretive.comThe Business School
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| Figure | Interpretive Business Simulations | The Business School |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · Business Simulation Software | 7.0 (#21) | 8.4 (#5) |
| Product | Interpretive offers business simulations for classroom learning across management, marketing, strategy, and sustainability. | The Business School is a live classroom business simulation in which student teams run rival firms in a shared market during one lesson. |
| Support | Interpretive says technical inquiries from students receive a response within 24 hours and customers are paired with a dedicated customer relationship manager. | The founder page states that support is answered within 24 hours by a person familiar with the material. |
Plans
Interpretive Business Simulations
- Academic usePriced on request
The Business School
- Teacher demoFree
- A-Level Business: The Complete Year£49, paid once
- GCSE Business: The Complete Year£49, paid once
- MAT licencePrice not published
- School licencePrice not published
In their own words
Interpretive Business Simulations
Interpretive Business Simulations has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
The Business School
The Business School is a browser-based classroom simulation where student teams run rival firms in a shared market during one lesson. Teams decide prices, hiring, loans, VAT, crises, and deals, with the effects visible in the simulation. Each session supports 6 to 32 students across up to eight firms of three or four. Teachers can pause or resume phases, trigger a crisis, review firm activity, and display a live leaderboard. Students join using a six-digit PIN and a team label or first name, without student accounts or email addresses. They can download private reports, while the teacher receives a curriculum-mapped class report by email within 48 hours. Knowledge Check questions are listed for 23 business courses, including AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas, WJEC, Cambridge, BTEC, and IB courses. Session data is stored in an EU database in Frankfurt; the company says it does not sell data or use it for advertising, and teachers can end a session at any time. A free teacher demo is listed. School and trust licence prices are by quote after the pilot. The Autumn 2026 pilot cohort is full, with a waitlist open.