Grandmaster Garden — FIDE × Salesforce at Dreamforce
I led the concept and creative technology for Grandmaster Garden, taking a physical chess board to a web app prototype that grew into a four-player game. Attendees played more than 1,000 puzzles at the FIDE activation on Howard Street, and 45% of people who tried it came back for one or more puzzles.
The experience paired an Agentforce agent, which gave live commentary and puzzle summaries, with a Tableau dashboard that visualized the leaderboard. Each day, the top four players on the leaderboard earned a 4-on-1 match against Grandmaster Sam Shankland, hosted by Grandmaster Maurice Ashley. The player who lasted longest won a blindfold match against Sam.
The key insight was the path from Stockfish to Agentforce. Stockfish supplies the ground truth about every position, and Agentforce turns it into commentary. It shows how Agentforce works with a business's own intelligence to deliver accurate, safe, compliant experiences that an off-the-shelf LLM can't deliver on its own.