How to complete the Sterling Spy challenge in BitLife

BitLife’s Sterling Spy challenge has you focusing on becoming a successful CEO-turned-spy. You’ll need plenty of wits, time, and money to finish this challenge, and it won’t be easy to finish every task. Here’s how to complete the Sterling Spy Challenge in BitLife.

BitLife Sterling Spy Challenge guide

The Sterling Spy Challenge in BitLife has five objectives to complete:

• Be born in a female in New York
• Become a CEO
• Start a spy agency in a laundromat
• Steam $5M+ from a single rival spy agency
• Commission your spies to assassinate 3+ ex-lovers

Completing this challenge requires owning the business job pack and secret agent expansion pack, as you’ll need both to become a CEO and start your spy agency. You can find both of these in the BitLife marketplace for real money.

How to be born in New York

Despite how the challenge initially words this task, you don’t have to start as a female to complete Sterling Spy. As long as your character is born in New York in the United States, your starting gender doesn’t matter for this specific challenge. Create any new character whose starting country is the United States and whose starting place is New York to complete the first task.

From here, age up and work hard to make as much money as possible. You can do this through family inheritance, marrying rich, or even committing crime if necessary. You’ll need money to start a business and create a spy agency, neither of which are cheap.

Make sure to have several lovers, too, as you’ll need them for future tasks. While you’re only required to have three, having more is a safer bet, as they can unexpectedly pass away at any point during your playthrough.

Becoming a CEO

Your next goal is to start your own business and become a CEO. As long as you have some startup cash, you can easily do this if you have the business job pack, as you’re only required to buy a business and set up your first product. Doing this makes you a CEO automatically, significantly reducing the time needed to climb up the corporate ladder.

Alternatively, you can pursue a corporate job and climb the ladder until you become CEO. However, this often takes decades, and you’re not guaranteed to receive the promotion unless you work hard and have some good luck. Nonetheless, it’s a solid alternative if you don’t mind waiting for the promotions and want to make extra money.

Starting a Laundromat Spy Agency

Next up is moving from business to spy work. Assuming you have the secret agent expansion pack, head into Activities and select Secret Agent. From here, you’ll find a list of buildings to purchase, with a laundromat having a chance of being one of your options. Look for a laundromat, closing and reopening the BitLife app as needed, and buy it to start your spy operations.

More often than not, a high-quality laundromat requires spending millions to apply for a mortgage, which can quickly bankrupt you if you’re not careful. You don’t need a high-quality laundromat for this challenge, but to be safe, make sure you make a few million to afford the lot.

Stealing from a rival Spy Agency

Now that you have your spy agency, it’s time to make some extra money. Stealing from a rival spy agency requires infiltrating another agency’s network and stealing their money, which you can do through your agency menu. Choose this option and initiate the hack to encounter a firewall minigame. Complete this minigame by matching the colors to steal money from your rivals.

Once you learn the minigame and complete it for the first time, repeat it until you make at least $5,000,000 from the same agency to finish the fourth task of the Sterling Spy challenge.

Commissioning spies for assassinations in BitLife

Lastly, it’s time to say goodbye to previous lovers by having your spies assassinate them. First, you’ll need to recruit some spies, which you can do from your agency menu. Ideally, you’ll want to recruit someone who specializes in assassination, as they’ll have higher odds of success. Once you have your assassin, select them in your menu and order them to assassinate each of your three ex-lovers to finish the last task of the Sterling Spy Challenge in BitLife.