How It Works

ONE ENGAGEMENT.
YEAR-ROUND
READINESS.

Most firms run a tabletop, hand over a PDF, and disappear. Your team forgets everything in 90 days. We do it differently — every engagement unlocks a persistent training environment that keeps your team sharp all year.

The Problem

The annual exercise that nobody remembers.

Traditional tabletop exercises are a point-in-time event. You pay $25K–$40K, your team sits in a room for half a day, you get a report, and it goes on a shelf. Three months later, nobody remembers what they learned.

Next year, you pay again to start from zero. Nothing compounds. Nothing sticks.

Day 1
Run exercise. Team is engaged.
Day 30
Most team members forget key decisions.
Day 90
Report is filed. Gaps unfixed.
Day 180
New threats emerge. Playbooks are stale.
Day 365
Pay again. Start from zero.
The After Action Model

Three phases. One platform. Real improvement.

Every engagement triggers a cycle that builds on itself. Your team gets better every quarter — measurably.

Phase 1

The Engagement

What happens

We run a facilitated tabletop exercise — ransomware, data breach, supply chain, insider threat. Your team makes real decisions under simulated pressure. Every response is captured.

  • Adversary-modeled scenarios mapped to your threat landscape
  • Real-time decision capture with confidence scoring
  • AI-powered facilitator coaching at each phase
  • Gap identification across 8 readiness dimensions

What you get

Not just a report. A complete operational package — playbooks, checklists, comms plans, and a quantified readiness score your board actually understands.

  • Interactive After-Action Review with structured findings
  • IR Playbook tailored to your gaps
  • Crisis communications templates
  • Readiness score across 8 NIST-aligned dimensions
  • Compliance framework mapping (NIST, SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA)

This is where every other firm stops. After Action is just getting started.

Phase 2

The Training Environment

After the engagement, every participant keeps access to the platform. The training environment is personalized to each person's role, targeted at the gaps found in the engagement, and costs nothing extra.

Role-Specific Scenarios

The CISO gets executive decision scenarios. The SOC analyst gets detection drills. Legal gets regulatory response exercises. Nobody wastes time on irrelevant content.

Gap-Targeted Drills

The platform knows where your team was weak. It automatically serves up exercises focused on those specific gaps. Escalation problems? More escalation scenarios.

Self-Service Exercises

Your team can run tabletop exercises on their own with the AI facilitator. No need to schedule another engagement. No need to pay again. They just train.

Continuous Scoring

Every exercise updates the readiness score. Show your board a trendline that goes up — that's the number that justifies the investment.

Zero production risk

The training environment is completely isolated. Exercises happen in the platform — not on your real systems, not on your network, not anywhere near production. There is zero risk of a training scenario triggering an actual incident. Your SOC stays quiet. Your systems stay untouched.

Phase 3

The Quarterly Cadence

For annual program clients, we layer a structured four-quarter cycle on top of the self-service training. Each quarter builds on the last — so readiness compounds instead of resetting.

Q1

Baseline

Establish readiness baseline. Identify gaps. Set the benchmark for the year.

Q2

Progress

Targeted drill on Q1 gaps. Measure improvement. Adjust remediation priorities.

Q3

Advanced

Escalated complexity. New threat vectors. Cross-team coordination under pressure.

Q4

Certify

Final assessment. Insurance certificate. Board report. Plan next cycle.

No Hidden Costs

What your team gets — and what it costs.

The training environment is included. Not an add-on. Not a separate license. Included.

What your team getsExtra cost
Facilitated tabletop exerciseEngagement fee
AAR + deliverables (playbooks, checklists, comms plans)Included
Readiness score across 8 dimensionsIncluded
Unlimited self-service exercises$0
Role-specific training for every team member$0
Gap-targeted drills between engagements$0
Continuous readiness scoring and trends$0
Compliance framework mapping$0

Traditional vs. After Action

Traditional Firms
  • Run exercise once a year
  • Deliver PDF report, move on
  • Team forgets in 90 days
  • No ongoing training between exercises
  • Pay full price every time you re-engage
  • Single readiness snapshot — no trend data
  • Generic scenarios, not role-specific
After Action
  • Exercise + persistent training environment
  • Interactive AAR + generated deliverables
  • Continuous training keeps skills sharp
  • Self-service exercises available 24/7
  • Annual programs at a fraction of à la carte cost
  • Quarterly readiness trends — prove ROI to the board
  • Role-specific, gap-targeted scenarios for every team member

See it for yourself.

Walk through a ransomware tabletop exercise — no login required. See how decisions are captured, gaps are identified, and readiness is scored.