Corporate bullshit generator

The corporate bullshit generator writes the slide your VP reads out at the all-hands. Someone in the row in front whispers what it means in plain English. You hear all the real news that way.

Sentences 1 3 5

We will proactively leverage synergistic learnings.

Plain English:

We will keep doing what we were doing, with a new slide about it.

Inside the corporate bullshit generator

How a corporate bullshit generator works

A corporate bullshit generator fills a few sentence shapes with random words. One of ours is “We will”, then an adverb, a verb, an adjective and a plural noun. Fill it and you might get “We will strategically operationalize scalable deliverables.”

Many of the words are corporate buzzwords people both search for and hate, like synergy and bandwidth. The plain-English whisper is a line written by hand, for that shape of sentence or for any slide.

In this generator	Count
Sentence shapes	14
Adverbs	101
Verbs	300
Adjectives	300
Nouns	300

CBSG, running since 2011

CBSG is Gautier de Montmollin’s free Corporate Bullshit Generator, on SourceForge since June 2011.

CBSG	Fact
Last update	June 2026
License	MIT
Written in	Ada
Words and phrases it claims	More than 1,700
Speed it claims	About 1,000 A4 pages of text a second

Corporate speak generator or real CEO

Shane Littrell built a random corporate speak generator for a 2026 study. People rated some real Fortune 500 executive quotes no differently from its lines.

In the study	Count
Studies	4
People who rated the lines for “business savvy”	1,018
Real quotes statistically indistinguishable from random ones	5

Workers who rated the nonsense highly also did worse at workplace decisions.

Corporate BS in real company memos

Real company memos work like the generator. They turn a plain decision into a paragraph about opportunity. A memo might say the gym and the cafeteria “will not be returning at this time”. Translated, they’re gone.

Corporate ipsum and meeting filler

Corporate ipsum for mockups

Corporate ipsum is filler text in business speak, used instead of lorem ipsum on a wireframe or a pitch deck. Set Sentences to 5 and press Copy to get a paragraph of it.

It looks like a finished strategy page, so the review skips straight to the logo.

Corporate BS generator for meetings

Read five generated lines out on a call, and someone’s buzzword bingo card will be full before the second agenda item. If a coworker asks a pointed question at the end, promise to circle back. That ends it for today.

For your feed, the LinkedIn speak translator turns plain news like “I got laid off” into a post.

Questions about corporate BS and ipsum

How does a corporate BS generator work?

A corporate BS generator drops random words into a set of sentence templates: ours has 14 templates, 101 adverbs and 300 each of verbs, adjectives and nouns. A line written by hand then says what the result means in plain English.

Can people tell corporate bullshit from what real executives say?

Not reliably: in a 2026 study, people rated five real quotes from Fortune 500 executives no differently from random corporate bullshit a generator wrote. The workers who rated the nonsense highest also did worse at workplace decisions.

What are some common corporate euphemisms?

Right-sizing means firing people, and "impacted by the restructuring" means you were laid off. In US company documents, a layoff becomes a "reduction in force". A perk that "will not be returning at this time" is gone for good.

What is corporate ipsum?

Corporate ipsum is placeholder text that reads like a strategy document, for the spots where a mockup or a slide would otherwise get lorem ipsum. This generator writes it: choose 5 sentences, then copy the paragraph.

What does Lorem Ipsum actually mean?

As written, it says nothing. It's scrambled Latin from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum, written around 45 BC. "Lorem" is the back half of "dolorem", which means pain, from a passage saying nobody loves pain for its own sake.

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