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One guided path from agreed objectives to live team decisions and a constructive AAR—for BTAM and Crisis Management teams.
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Most tabletop software was built for generic emergency management — not for the nuanced, multidisciplinary work of threat assessment or the fast-moving demands of crisis response. Facilitators end up juggling slides, emails, and whiteboards while trying to drive a live exercise.
CAL changes that — for both.
CAL keeps the exercise connected from the first agreed objective to the next improvement your organization owns. Users see the work they need now—not the machinery behind it.
Agree on the objectives, confirm who will be in the room, and give each team the right starting information before play begins.
The story unfolds in human language. Teams receive only what matters to them, act in their own workspace, and ask for information as they would in a real event.
CAL connects what happened back to the agreed objectives so the AAR can recognize strengths, identify opportunities in the work, and assign practical next steps.
Everything below is built in — not an add-on, not a roadmap promise.
AI generates fresh, realistic injects and timelines on demand — no recycled slide decks.
Deliver text, images, documents, audio, and voice messages — exercises that feel real.
Participants join by code from anywhere. No accounts, no installs, no friction.
In Co-Pilot, CAL monitors live pacing and provides private periodic briefs and branch proposals for facilitator review.
A complete AAR — timeline, decisions, and mitigations — benchmarked against your own internal documents, generated the moment you finish.
National threat-assessment and crisis-management best practice drives the tool. Your own internal documents — guides, policies, procedures — prime every scenario, and benchmark every After-Action Report.
Run a pure BTAM exercise, a pure crisis exercise, or both in the same session. Teams toggle between workspaces with a single click — the facilitator controls both from one console.
Participants switch between workspaces mid-exercise. Facilitator sees both simultaneously.
CAL is the first tabletop platform built natively around BTAM methodology. The four-pillar framework isn't a form you fill out after the exercise — it's the workspace your teams work in during it.
Crisis TTX tools exist — but they're built for compliance checkboxes, not realistic facilitation. CAL gives crisis teams the dynamic, multimedia, branching exercise experience that actually builds muscle memory.
Every team takes a scenario somewhere unexpected. Traditional tabletops fall apart when that happens — the facilitator scrambles, the script breaks, the learning stops. CAL is built for exactly that moment.
The CAL Co-Pilot reads team responses, chat, task activity, information requests, and workspace context. It provides private periodic briefs and branch opportunities while the facilitator retains every release decision.
Blue Conditional Injects can match participant language, decisions, omissions, timing, chat, or task activity. CAL highlights a possible trigger and its evidence; the facilitator reviews, edits, releases, or holds the content.
CAL never deploys an inject without your decision. It doesn't run the exercise — you do. The AI's job is to make sure you have the right information, at the right moment, to make the right call. That's a fundamentally different model than AI-generated scripts that run on autopilot.
Every scenario is built around your organization's learning objectives. CAL tracks drift from those objectives in real time and flags when teams are heading somewhere valuable versus somewhere that undermines the exercise goals. Adapt when it makes sense. Redirect when it doesn't. Always with the mission in view.
"AI-assisted. Human-in-the-loop. Adaptive in real time.
Immersive by design."
CAL doesn't replace facilitator judgment — it amplifies it. The result is an exercise that feels less like a structured drill and more like a real incident your team has to navigate together.
No one tests their teams like this. Live tabletop exercises have never had a real AI co-facilitator embedded in the room — CAL is the first. It's not a chatbot you check between sessions. It's reading what's happening, watching every team's responses, tracking pacing, and advising you on what to do next, the entire time you're running the exercise.
This is a different category from "AI-assisted" planning tools — CAL operates live, mid-exercise, across every team simultaneously.
Persona Relay is CAL's system for injecting outside voices into an exercise — a witness, a reporter, a CEO, a regulator, a family member. Deliver as a written inject, a live chat message, or a real two-way phone call powered by an AI voice that stays in character from hello to hang-up.
The character sends a memo, email, or statement — lands in the team's workspace as a formal exercise inject.
The character texts the team in real time. Facilitator types it, or CAL drafts it in-voice with one tap.
The persona actually calls a joined participant. The AI drives a real, in-character conversation over the phone.
The difference between reading a scripted media inject —
and having a reporter actually call your PIO and push back for four minutes straight.
CAL monitors the live exercise, reads team responses, and gives you private briefings on pacing, decisions needing attention, and possible next moves. Prepare story developments or stakeholder messages mid-exercise, with facilitator approval.
Every team gets a dedicated digital workspace. Run fully in-room, fully remote, or split teams across locations — the platform handles all three without changing your workflow.
Injects land instantly — no email, no document handoffs. Teams see text, images, documents, audio clips, and video exactly when you release them. Responses flow back live.
A hostile reporter. An FBI agent. An affected customer. Define stakeholder characters and let participants interrogate them live — the AI stays in character, pushes back, and evades tough questions. Facilitator watches every conversation and can take over any thread.
Exercises rarely go as planned — and they shouldn't. Facilitator branches, conditional injects, and last-minute timeline edits let you follow the room.
Take the tabletop off the table. Multiple facilitators can drive the same exercise together — see each other in real time, split the load, watch each other's injects land. Read-only observer seats let executives, evaluators, and stakeholders watch live without touching the scenario.
When the clock stops, your AAR is already built — every inject, response, task, and mitigation decision captured and organized for leadership review. One-click export to PDF or a boardroom-ready PPTX slide deck.
CAL is entirely web-based — no software to install, on any device, in a browser. Run it fully in-person in one room, fully virtual across time zones, or hybrid with some teams in the room and others remote. The platform doesn't change based on format.
Each team gets a private, dedicated environment — but they're never isolated. Text chat, voice messages, and voicemail-style audio injects flow in real time, so the facilitator and every team can coordinate responses, share information, and react to what other teams are doing, exactly as they would in a real incident.
Most organizations want to exercise more often. They don't — because each exercise takes weeks to design, a full day to run, and leaves everyone exhausted. CAL removes every part of that friction.
Exercise frequency — typical organizations
The insight behind CAL
Teams don't perform well in crises because they trained once a year.
They perform well because they've built the muscle through regular, structured reps.
CAL makes that possible — without burning out your team or your budget.
Generic tools were built for FEMA compliance templates. CAL was built for BTAM practitioners and crisis professionals who need more.
A practical case for AI-enabled readiness, richer simulation, and facilitator-controlled adaptation.
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Explore the industry challenges CAL was built to address—and how a connected, facilitator-controlled environment can make exercises more immersive, repeatable, measurable, and useful.
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