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Quick Start Guide

Get up and running with After Action in under 10 minutes. Create your organization, run your first tabletop exercise, and review results.

After Action is a cybersecurity crisis readiness platform that combines tabletop exercise facilitation, AI-powered coaching, readiness scoring, and automated deliverable generation. This guide walks you through the essentials.

Step 1: Create Your Account

Navigate to the sign-up page and create an account using email/password or magic link authentication. You will be assigned the owner role for your organization automatically.

Step 2: Set Up Your Organization

After signing in, you land in the Ops Dashboard at /app/ops. From here:

  1. Open Settings and configure your organization name, industry vertical, and logo.
  2. Invite team members and assign roles (admin, ops, client).
  3. Set your industry vertical — this drives benchmark comparisons and threat intelligence filtering.

Step 3: Create Your First Engagement

Engagements are the top-level container for all exercise activity with a client.

  1. Navigate to Engagements and click New Engagement.
  2. Select a pricing tier (Foundation, Operational, or Enterprise).
  3. Assign a scenario from the built-in library or create a custom one.

Step 4: Build and Run an Exercise

  1. Open the engagement and click New Exercise.
  2. Use the Exercise Builder to configure objectives, injects, and participant roles.
  3. Invite participants via email — they receive a link to the Participant War Room.
  4. Launch the exercise from the Facilitator Control Room.

Step 5: Review Results

After the exercise completes:

  • Readiness Score — 8-dimension assessment aligned to NIST 800-61.
  • Gap Analysis — Identified weaknesses mapped to compliance frameworks.
  • Deliverables — Auto-generated IR playbooks, triage checklists, and AAR reports.
  • Decision Analytics — Participant leadership profiles and confidence trends.

What's Next

| Topic | Description | |---|---| | Platform Overview | Understand the three portals, roles, and architecture | | First Exercise | Detailed walkthrough of building and running an exercise | | Readiness Scoring | How the 8-dimension scoring model works | | Deliverables | All 12 auto-generated deliverable types |