AI-driven rehearsal environments where students interact with simulated organisations populated by AI characters. Each character has a role, a personality, and a story. Your students bring the questions.
Each scenario is a fully realised organisation with AI employees. Students interview, investigate, and analyse — just like they would in a real workplace.
A simulated IT services firm with AI chatbot employees. Students interview staff for security audits, requirements gathering, and business analysis.
Each employee has a unique backstory and personality. The information students need is distributed across multiple people — just like reality.
A simulated travel and tourism agency for hospitality and tourism education. AI employees across sales, operations, and management.
Currently in development. Designed for units in tourism management, hospitality operations, and customer service.
Case studies give students facts. LocoEnsayo gives them conversations. The AI characters don't hand over answers — they play their roles, and students have to do the professional work of asking, listening, and analysing.
Students don't read about stakeholders. They talk to them. They ask follow-up questions. They deal with inconsistencies between what different people say. That's the real skill.
All AI inference runs locally via Ollama. No student data leaves the institution. No cloud APIs. No tracking. Full institutional control over the infrastructure.
In real projects, the hardest part is understanding the people and the organisation. LocoEnsayo lets students practise exactly that — in a safe, repeatable environment.
What matters is what students do with the information, not the raw transcripts. Assess their professional judgement, their recommendations, their ability to synthesise conflicting input.
Each AI character is a fine-tuned small language model served locally. Students chat through a web interface. Everything runs on-premises.
Each AI employee is a small language model fine-tuned with a specific backstory, personality, knowledge set, and conversational style. They stay in character.
Models run locally via Ollama. No cloud. No API keys. No student data leaves the institution. BYOK options available for educators who prefer commercial models.
Students interact through a familiar chat interface. Pick an employee, start a conversation. The AI remembers context within the session.
LocoEnsayo scenarios map to common learning outcomes across multiple disciplines. Choose a scenario, frame a task, and let students engage.
Requirements elicitation, security audits, business process analysis, systems analysis and design.
Organisational analysis, change management, stakeholder management, leadership assessment.
Service quality evaluation, operations analysis, customer experience design, event planning.
Customer research, brand analysis, internal controls, risk assessment, compliance evaluation.
LocoEnsayo is a School of Management and Marketing initiative at Curtin University, part of the LocoLab applied AI research lab. Whether you're an educator wanting to use LocoEnsayo in your teaching, or a researcher interested in collaboration — we'd love to hear from you.