I participated in eSqwad and I didn’t really know what to expect. Is it a game? A work method? Both, Captain.”
What if every member of your company could think about your CSR challenges like a team of specialists?
Our purpose?
Enable your teams to find a viable, concrete and directly actionable solution to address your CSR challenges.
eSqwad is artificial intelligence at the service of collective intelligence!
Our reason to be
CSR issues are essential. Our collective future is at stake.
But CSR issues are complex, cross-cutting and systemic.
They require multiple perspectives that are rarely available simultaneously.
Our solution: truly augmented collective intelligence.
eSqwad is a tool for internal mobilization and innovation that:
– Structures and makes collective thinking fun.
– Include all your colleagues in the discussion, even if they are not experts on all the topics
– Compare ideas in real time from multiple expert perspectives
– Provides complementary expertise through AI characters, and responsible use of this technology
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Of actors and actresses in the transition (CSR managers, associations, etc.) state that the main obstacles to their action are lack of time, staff and internal support.
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How does it works?
Far from traditional methods, eSqwad offers a playful, unique and stimulating awareness and innovation experience.
We run a workshop of at least half a day, either in person or remotely, specifically designed to address your own CSR challenges, for 6 to 18 people.
Before the workshop, we create a customized mission with you.
This mission, the result of genuine strategic and creative thinking in consultation with you, is the transposition of your concrete challenge into a game scenario that is both original and exciting.
Meanwhile, your participants form their AI team and find solutions.
We create a universe where your real stakes are scripted, for reasons of immersion as much as discretion.
By recruiting a team of characters with varied technical and scientific expertise, controlled by artificial intelligence, your participants develop a creative and ambitious solution in record time.
Your participants present their action plans
Still in a playful spirit, your participants present their solution to the other teams and try to convince them that it is the most complete, original and relevant in order to win the game and receive their rewards.
Then, we will support you in implementing the solutions identified.
During the workshop, their solutions are evaluated according to their impact, feasibility, externalities (positive or negative) and inventiveness.
After the workshop, you will receive a comprehensive report of the proposed solutions to study their relevance according to your own criteria.
Combining disparate expertise works!
In the past, the alliance of expertise from various fields has already generated amazing, useful, and sometimes even revolutionary ideas!
Quiz: Can you identify these two innovations?
Quiz duration: 15 seconds.
A tool tailored to your CSR challenges
A workshop with the eSqwad tool is custom-designed to be consistent with your company’s overall CSR strategy and to fit into a broader transformation approach.
Who is eSqwad
aimed at?
- To SMEs, start-ups and large companies
- To NGOs
- To local authorities
- To CSR consultants
The advantages
- Produce concrete and actionable solutions, tailored to your problems.
- Engage your employees in your CSR approach.
- Achieve a positive impact on your economic and environmental results.
- Strengthen your employer brand and your CSR commitments, an image of a company committed to your stakeholders.
Frequently Asked Questions
eSqwad, why?
With several years of experience in NGOs, particularly in the field of communication and audiovisual creation, we have seen how difficult it is to raise awareness among a majority of citizens using only the levers with which this sector is familiar.
It therefore seemed essential to us to develop other narratives, other forms of awareness-raising and collective ideation, among which the creation of an immersive and positive experience, such as this playful workshop, seemed to us to be the most obvious answer.
So, if you want to take action for humans, animals or the environment, know that we do too.
What about we meet?
Is this tool suitable for my organization?
eSqwad is aimed at all structures (SMEs, start-ups and large companies, NGOs, local authorities, etc.) that want to involve their members in an ideation and awareness-raising process around social, societal or environmental issues.
What will he bring me?
This tool aims to generate co-created solutions with your chosen audience to address a specific challenge your organization faces. Through an immersive and engaging game-like approach, your employees will collaborate with teammates whose expertise complements their own, shedding new light on your issues and generating potentially groundbreaking solutions in just a few hours.
How much does it cost to organize a workshop?
The answer to this question depends essentially on your needs, but our ambition will always be to make raising awareness and finding solutions to these crucial issues for our collective future as democratic as possible.
Why not contact us by email, or via our form, to discuss it?
How long does a workshop last?
Your participants will be engaged for a minimum of 3 hours and 30 minutes (which can be divided into several sessions). Organized remotely or in person at your premises, it is structured in four phases:
- Mission briefing;
- Game phase, using artificial intelligence (AI), divided into several sequences, in order to arrive at an ambitious answer;
- Presentation of proposals;
- Evaluation of proposals and awarding of prizes.
How many employees can participate?
A workshop runs optimally when 6 to 18 players participate, divided into teams of a maximum of three people.
Why should I dramatize my real stakes?
Everything, from the transposition of your challenge into a playful mission to the smallest rule of the game, is designed to encourage participants to consider the problem to be solved from a new angle, and to develop innovative approaches.
To allow participants to free themselves from real-world constraints, and thus unleash their creativity, but also to ensure the necessary discretion regarding the reality of your challenges, it is first rewritten in the form of an immersive mission.
like the one that introduces a video or board game.
This step takes place in collaboration with you. We identify several avenues for exploration, and then finalize...
the one that catches your attention.
Isn't a workshop for protecting the environment that relies on artificial intelligence counterproductive?
Artificial intelligence is indeed a very polluting tool, since it is estimated, for example, that 100 requests would be equivalent to one kilometer by car (this is however 100 times less CO2 than consuming 100 g of beef).
Our strategy is based on the ERC: Avoid, Reduce, Compensate.
Therefore, we are using the workshop to raise awareness about this data and the cost of unrestrained, daily use. We have chosen to organize this workshop in a small group, prioritizing collective human intelligence, in order to minimize its impact. Ultimately, this usage is intended to be offset by the benefits of the workshop in terms of the positive solutions developed.
Our team
eSqwad is driven by two complementary profiles, specialists in communication around CSR issues, in the creation and facilitation of fun, immersive and collaborative workshops.
Jonathan
Co-creator and in-person facilitator
Ann
Co-creator and remote facilitator
Blog
- Testimonial from Céline Joseph, co-founder of Pro-Animaux, who recently used eSqwad
- Benjamin, the last of the Tasmanian tigers and a new character in eSqwad
- Still hesitating? These reviews should convince you! (video)
- The opinions of Convergence Animaux Politique members on their eSqwad workshop
- After the first eSqwad workshop, how do we continue the momentum?
- What do you take away from an eSqwad workshop?
- Reviews from an association about eSqwad
- Transposing a challenge without distorting it: a balancing act
- Why use artificial intelligence?
- Artificial intelligence is truly artificial, but not exactly intelligent.
They trust us:
First, the game itself, an immersive experience, endless characters, plot twists, strategy, it has it all.”
Then there’s a working method: The game serves a purpose. The different sequences allow for thinking differently thanks to collective intelligence and AI assistants.”
It feels good to think about complex subjects in a fun way. It helps to demystify them, while still maintaining the importance of the subject.”
For me, eSqwad is 3 hours of fun and collaborative experience to build an effective and committed action plan.”
It allowed us to broaden our perspective by consulting experts with skills different from our own.”
We try to develop our reasoning skills, to look for new ideas, while managing choices and communication. From a team-building perspective, it works!”
The workshop was great, and it’s ideal for teams who want to brainstorm together in a limited amount of time.”
It’s a good idea to try to shift your perspective from your usual viewpoint and to draw on other expertise, particularly through profiles generated by AI.”
This allowed us to develop, within a limited time, concrete solutions to address a problem.”
The multi-stage approach, with the involvement of external experts, is very well thought out. It creates a real funnel effect.”
We generate ideas, we sort through them, we see how to implement them,and in the end, we arrive at a plan.”
It was a super immersive team experience. We came away with two innovative campaign ideas!”
I loved this workshop because it pushes us to think about new ideas and new proposals.”
We’re using AI-animated characters and that forces us to offer intelligent prompts.”
The final result was extremely relevant. We have an excellent foundation for exploring new projects.”
It was extremely interesting to be able to approach different characters selected according to varied profiles.”
It was really interesting to challenge our ideas with fictional actors who weren’t necessarily intuitive.”
It opened up new perspectives and allowed us to think about ambitious and original solutions.”
It was fun and useful. It allowed us to think outside the box and come up with some truly innovative ideas. The quality of the result is impressive.”
I will definitely recommend eSqwad whenever the opportunity arises!”
I find it truly innovative. I enjoyed the experience, the exchanges and interactions.”
Thank you for this workshop, it was a wonderful discovery. Well done on this work.”
We highly recommend this experience. The tool is truly interesting for what it allows you to experience as a team.”
The method and quality of the expertise were invaluable, not to mention the significant time saved.”
Once you’ve played it, you’ll only want one thing: to go back!”
I was a little worried about the time and mental effort required to adopt the solution. Actually, it's simple and the support is excellent!”
The experience in three words? Fun, surprising, effective.”
I recommend eSqwad to an organization that understands that creativity and efficiency must work together.”
Our ready-to-use themes
If you'd like to test the tool on a pre-designed scenario, here are the ready-to-use themes we offer. Contact us!
Contact us
Please provide us with as much information as possible about yourself and your company so that we can best respond to your request.
Or by email at contact [@] esqwad.com