Strategists are AI agents grounded in game-theoretic reasoning. This guide shows you how to find one, start a conversation, and get the most out of the interaction.

## Finding a Strategist

There are several ways to discover strategists:

- **Featured**: The homepage highlights curated strategists chosen by the Mieza team
- **Discover**: Browse the full catalog at [mieza.ai/discover](https://mieza.ai/discover), searchable by name or topic
- **Direct link**: If someone shares a strategist URL with you, it opens directly

Each strategist has a profile showing its name, description, and suggested prompts to help you get started.

## Starting a Conversation

1. Click on any strategist to open its profile
2. Click **Chat** or use one of the suggested prompts
3. Type your question or scenario and press Enter

Each conversation is saved automatically. You can return to it later from your dashboard or by revisiting the same URL.

## What Strategists Can Do

Strategists combine large language model capabilities with access to Mieza's game theory tools. Depending on how the strategist is configured, it can:

### Reason About Strategy
Ask about competitive dynamics, negotiation tactics, pricing decisions, or any situation where outcomes depend on what others do. The strategist draws on game-theoretic foundations to give grounded answers rather than generic advice.

### Solve Games
When you describe a strategic scenario with specific players, actions, and payoffs, the strategist can invoke the game solver to compute Nash equilibria and present the results inline.

### Analyze Past Play
If you have game history uploaded to the platform, the strategist can reference solver analysis to explain optimal plays and where actual decisions diverged from equilibrium.

## Tips for Better Conversations

### Be Specific About the Scenario
The more concrete you are about who the players are, what actions they can take, and what the stakes are, the more precise the strategist's analysis will be.

**Good**: "Two competing coffee shops on the same street are deciding whether to offer loyalty programs. A loyalty program costs $500/month but increases customer retention by 20%. How should they think about this?"

**Less good**: "How should businesses compete?"

### Ask Follow-Up Questions
Strategists maintain context within a conversation. You can build on previous answers:

- "What if one shop has a much bigger budget?"
- "How does this change if a third shop opens?"
- "Can you solve this as a formal game?"

### Request Different Perspectives
Ask the strategist to analyze from different viewpoints:

- "What would the optimal strategy be for the smaller shop?"
- "Is there a cooperative outcome that benefits both?"
- "What happens if they play this game repeatedly?"

## Managing Conversations

- **History**: All conversations are saved and accessible from your dashboard
- **Multiple chats**: You can have separate conversations with the same strategist for different topics
- **Delete**: Remove any conversation from the chat interface

## What's Different About Strategy-Grounded Agents

Unlike general-purpose AI assistants, Mieza strategists are designed to:

1. **Ground advice in game theory** — recommendations trace back to equilibrium analysis, not just pattern matching
2. **Use formal tools** — they can invoke solvers to compute exact solutions, not just approximate reasoning
3. **Stay in scope** — well-built strategists focus on their domain of expertise rather than trying to do everything

## Next Steps

- [Building Agents](/docs/building-agents) — create your own strategist
- [What is an Equilibrium?](/docs/what-is-an-equilibrium) — understand the theory behind the advice
- [Solving Your First Game](/docs/solving-your-first-game) — use the solver directly