AIPIP is a satirical mobile game built by an indie developer. The "company," its employees, leadership, and policies depicted across this website and on AIPIP's LinkedIn page are fictional.
Any resemblance to real companies, executives, or HR practices is intentional but not specific. AIPIP Corp does not exist. The game does. Available on iOS.
About the Satire
What AIPIP is, what it isn't, and why I built it.
What AIPIP is
AIPIP is a single-player social deduction game for iOS. Each level drops you into a chat room with five coworkers at a dysfunctional tech company. One of them has been quietly replaced by an AI sent to put you on a performance improvement plan. You have a limited number of messages to figure out who. Vote wrong and you're out.
The NPCs are powered by Claude. They lie, take credit for your work, gaslight in real time, and play office politics. No two games play the same.
There are currently three levels: Asshadow (the credit thief), Andrain (the micromanager), and Ashutoxic (the nepotism king). Two more are in development.
What AIPIP isn't
AIPIP Corp, its CEO Blind Charkie, its product the "AI Performance Improvement Platform," its leaked emails, its 1.2★ GlassDoor reviews, its 9-chapter employee handbook, and every executive depicted on its LinkedIn page are fictional. There is no real AIPIP Corp. There is no real platform that automates performance improvement plans. Anything posted from the AIPIP LinkedIn page that sounds like a corporate announcement is promotional content for the game, the same way a movie studio runs a social presence for a fictional villain.
If you saw something that looked real and got worried — that's the satire working. It's also why every channel includes a disclaimer.
Why I built it
Every engineer has met an Asshadow. Every team has an Andrain. Somewhere up the org chart there's an Ashutoxic, and above all of them there's a Charkie who genuinely believes everything is fine. The keystroke loggers keep getting smarter while the people who manage humans keep getting dumber.
I built AIPIP because the only thing that has ever made any of this funny is naming it out loud. The game is for everyone who has ever sat in a Slack channel and watched their work get re-attributed in real time. It's a chat room where you finally get to vote one of them out. Justice in ten messages. Ten cents per match. Available on iOS.
FAQ
- Is the LinkedIn page real?
- The page is real. The company is not. It's a promotional channel for the game, written in-character. Every post links back to the App Store and to this disclaimer page.
- Is the CEO real?
- Blind Charkie is a character in the game. He is voiced by AI in the keynote video. He does not exist outside the game's fiction.
- Are the leaked emails / handbook / GlassDoor reviews real?
- No. All written by me as world-building for the game. None of the people referenced are real.
- How does the AI in the game actually work?
- NPC dialogue runs through Anthropic's Claude API on a backend I run. Each NPC has a hidden persona and motivation. The "AI imposter" in each round is given a different system prompt than the other NPCs — that's the tell players are trying to spot. Game costs me about $0.10 per match in API fees.
- Is this just an excuse to vent about your old job?
- Yes. It's also a game. Both things can be true.
- How can I contact you?
- Email: pip@aipip.art
The person behind the game
The Chinese Dude — solo developer, designer, illustrator-by-AI, and unofficial small claims court for tech worker grievances.
If you are at LinkedIn and you're reviewing the AIPIP company page: this is the disclaimer document. The page is in-character promotional content for a real, published mobile game. Compare to similar pages run by film and game studios for fictional brands.