★ MESC 2026 · Ideas to working software, live ★
Blazing the Trail to Coverage
This 16-bit game is the example — not the point. The point is what happens around it: an idea becomes something you can actually use, you tell us where it misses, and the change is built and back in your hands during the session. Play it, shape it, and see how quickly business and technology teams can align when there is a real product to react to.
What's the Concept?
AI-assisted development can turn ideas into working software fast — and that speed is most valuable because of how quickly it lets business and technology teams learn from real feedback.
Requirements are interpretations. A working product is not. When stakeholders can use something real early, gaps show up in minutes instead of after months of build, and the next version reflects what people actually meant.
Step 1
Define the idea
Step 2
Rapidly build something tangible
Step 3
Gather real feedback
Step 4
Improve and re-test
The takeaway: this isn't "we used AI to make a video game." It's a demonstration that faster building plus continuous human feedback leads to faster alignment, less rework, and better outcomes. The people in the loop still decide what "better" means.
How the demonstration works
Three steps, running the whole session. You use the product, you say what's wrong, and you experience the improved version — the same loop we'd want on real Medicaid technology.
- 1▶ Play the game
Experience the first version
Play the 16-bit game about the journey to health coverage. Like any early build, it has rough edges — you'll feel exactly where the experience falls short of the intent.
- 2✎ Share feedback
Tell us what should change
Describe the gap in your own words instead of writing a requirement. Every note lands on a public backlog the team works from during the session.
- 3▶ Replay the game
See your feedback in the product
We build the change with AI-assisted development tools while you're here, then you interact with the updated version and tell us whether it hit the mark.
Want the evidence? View the feedback backlog to see what people asked for and what has already shipped, read about our poster for how this maps to real Medicaid work, or check the high scores.