Here’s a curveball
Microsoft needed to train its global vendor network on compliance and ethics. Simple enough — until it wasn’t.
Silverlight was being deprecated, eliminating the obvious technical path. No LMS, no portal, no assumption vendors were sitting at a corporate workstation. And build the whole thing without Adobe’s creative suite — no Photoshop, no Illustrator, no InDesign. No Flash.
The solution was interactive PDFs that could be emailed, opened anywhere, and still deliver a scenario-based experience. As a bonus: it became one of the first executions in Microsoft’s new Metro brand system.
When the court sets the brief
In 2009, Eli Lilly settled the largest criminal fine in U.S. history at the time — $1.2 billion for off-label drug promotion. The federal settlement mandated six hours of ethics and compliance training for every Lilly employee, from the shop floor to the C-suite.
Godot built it.
The program combined C-suite interviews, scenario-based modules, and a narrative architecture designed to meet federal standards while actually holding the attention of people who’d seen every compliance training ever made. It did both.
