SIEC-ISBE Knowledge Tour · Startup Village Amsterdam · 24 July 2026
SISKIN Labs · AI × Business Education
Value moves.
What happens to a school when AI makes its core product abundant?
Let's not debate it. Let's simulate it.
SISKIN Labs
When AI reshuffles an industry, value doesn't vanish. It moves.
What we believe. The winners of a technology shift are not the fastest adopters.
They are the ones who saw where value was heading, and took that position first.
What we promise. We model how AI shifts value in your world, spot the patterns early,
and help you choose your position before the shift chooses for you.
Act 1 · The claim
AI is compressing knowledge transfer.
Explanation. Worked examples. Practice. Feedback.
What was scarce yesterday, and paid for, is abundant today.
Act 1 · The claim
Scarcity ends. Value moves.
When a link in a value chain becomes abundant, the value doesn't vanish.
It shifts to the links that stay scarce. Every industry is living this. Education too.
The only question is: where does it go, and who moves first?
Act 1 · The claim
Talking about it is easy.
So instead, we'll build a business school as a living system — in dialogue with an AI —
and then run its next 20 years. Two hundred times.
Act 1 · The evidence
This isn't hypothetical. The sector is already under pressure.
AI pressure
"AI is driving down the price of knowledge, and universities have to rethink what they offer."
"The 'knowledge premium' universities have long sold is deflating as a result."
The Conversation · Patrick Dodd, University of Auckland · 8 July 2025
AI pressure
"AI is degrading the value of a university degree."
"AI will continue to displace learning rather than support it."
LSE Impact Blog · Marvin Starominski-Uehara · 28 May 2026
Insider · Nyenrode
"Contact time has become too expensive to spend on information transfer."
"Students can get the same thing on their phone, often more patiently." A business school rector, not a critic.
Michael Erkens, Rector Nyenrode Business University · QS Insights Magazine · 10 June 2026
Competition
"An AI degree that could rival Harvard, and it will cost only $10,000."
Sal Khan launches it with Google, Microsoft and McKinsey.
Fortune · 15 April 2026
Act 2 · How we built the school, in dialogue with an AI agent
REPLAY
The world model · built from the dialogue
Students
600
Reserves
€350k
Reputation
0.70
Satisfaction
~0.72
AI pressure
0.10
5 state variables · 18 equations · 6 draws of chance. That is the model that represents the school
One future, played out.
Repositioned
2026
Live · click any value to change it, then Run again
Students (start)
Reputation (start)
AI pressure (start)
AI pressure growth% / yr
Reserves (€k) · start
No two futures alike. So: run 200.
Repositioned
reserves (€k) per simulated future · floor = €0 · full Monte-Carlo on the model you just built
–%
of 200 futures: the school still exists in 2046.
Year the money runs out
202720362046 · survived
Act 3 · The difference
–%
Business as usual
defend the old scarcity
–%
Repositioned
occupy the new scarcity
Same school. Same AI. One decision different.
The AI didn't decide who survives. The position did.
From inside the sector
The people running business schools already see it.
Insider · Nyenrode
"Students do not pay for content. They pay for what surrounds it."
The value moves to the bridges AI can't build: judgement, context, community.
Michael Erkens, Rector Nyenrode Business University · QS Insights Magazine · 10 June 2026
Insider · IIM Indore
"The broader trend is a transition from 'what you know' to 'how you think.'"
Which is exactly what this session is about: how we think, and how AI supports it.
Himanshu Rai, Director IIM Indore · QS Insights Magazine · 10 June 2026
Act 4 · The lesson
The value hasn't left education. It has moved.
transferring knowledge
orchestrating how people learn
context, application, judgement
assessment that AI can't fake
community: the reason to be there
For you, that is the shift from information source to designer of experience: the roles that grow as knowledge transfer shrinks.
Act 4 · The bundle
Knowledge transfer was only one strand of the bundle.
Deflating
Knowledge transfer
Explanation, worked examples, feedback. What students used to pay for — now abundant and near-free.
value ↓
↑Credential & signalThe trusted proof employers still screen on.
↑Network & cohortWho you learn alongside, for the rest of your career.
↑Mentoring & judgementWisdom passed person to person, not retrievable from a model.
↑Structure & accountabilityThe reason people actually finish what they start.
↑Community & identityBelonging and formation a chatbot can't confer.
↑Access & applied workTo recruiters, alumni and real projects judged by humans.
As the cheap strand deflates, the price the market will pay flows to the others. That is where the value moves — and what the school must now be built around.
SISKIN Labs
Choose your position before the shift chooses for you.
We model how AI shifts value in your world, spot the patterns early,
and help you pick the position where value is heading.
Want to see where value is moving in your world?
Talk to us. Today works; tomorrow too. · siskin.amsterdam
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We watch where value moves — continuously.
Sensors
Continuous scan of academic papers, professional literature and quality media
Proprietary insights from client projects
Structured dialogues with operators and domain experts
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DatabaseStrategic Pattern Intelligence
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What we do with it, with you
Collaborate on identifying & claiming new sources of value
Participate in the development of AI-powered products and services
Simulate and stress-test your strategy before you commit
This is how we spot where value is moving — early enough that you can choose your position before the shift does it for you.
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