Take the tabletop
off the table.
Live tabletop exercises for BTAM and Crisis Management teams — structured facilitation, realistic multimedia injects, dedicated team workspaces, and an embedded AI co-facilitator. Designed to run in real time, not read from a script.
In-person · Virtual · Hybrid · Any scenario type
No signup, no card — just click and explore a real BTAM exercise.
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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.
Built to make every exercise feel real
Everything below is built in — not an add-on, not a roadmap promise.
Never run the same scenario twice
AI generates fresh, realistic injects and timelines on demand — no recycled slide decks.
Multimedia injects
Deliver text, images, documents, audio, and voice messages — exercises that feel real.
In-person, virtual, or hybrid
Participants join by code from anywhere. No accounts, no installs, no friction.
AI co-pilot watches the room
CAL monitors live pacing every 60 seconds and recommends your next move.
Automated After-Action Reports
A complete AAR — timeline, decisions, and mitigations — benchmarked against your own internal documents, generated the moment you finish.
Grounded in your own documents
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.
BTAM and Crisis Management — equally at home
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.
From setup to debrief in one platform
Build Your Scenario
Use the guided wizard to set the scene, define teams, configure your inject timeline, and stage your Scenario Queue. CAL pre-populates realistic inject suggestions based on your scenario type. Attach documents, images, audio clips, or let CAL generate them.
Launch & Facilitate Live
Send join codes to participants — they're in with one click, no accounts needed. Deliver injects, assign tasks, monitor team responses, relay persona messages, and deploy wildcards from a single facilitator console. CAL Copilot briefs you every 60 seconds.
Debrief with Data
When the clock stops, your After Action Report is already built — every inject, response, task, and BTAM mitigation decision captured and organized. Export for leadership review, compliance documentation, or training records.
Plans don't survive contact with the team.
CAL is ready for that.
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.
CAL watches the room so you don't have to watch everything at once
The CAL Copilot reads every team response, chat message, and task completion as it happens. Every 60 seconds it gives you a live brief: where each team is, what phase the scenario is in, who's behind, and exactly what to do next. You see the whole exercise — not just the loudest team.
When teams surface something unexpected, the right inject is already staged
The Response Ready Bullpen monitors participant language in real time. When a team raises legal liability, mentions a missed notification, or asks about a protocol you've pre-loaded — an alert fires instantly. The inject is staged and waiting. You deploy it with one tap, or hold it. Nothing is wasted, nothing is missed.
AI surfaces the intelligence. You make every call.
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.
Follow their thread — or steer them back. The AI tells you which.
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.
Your AI co-facilitator is always in the room
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.
- →Generate a new inject on the spot based on what teams just said
- →Write a realistic message from a witness, executive, or anonymous source
- →Detect when a team triggers an on-demand response and alert you instantly
- →Suggest wildcard challenges for teams ahead of pace
- →Brief you every 60 seconds: arc phase, pacing, gaps, next move
- →Build voice scripts for PA announcements, phone calls, or radio broadcasts
- →Generate realistic photo evidence and documents on demand, grounded in your own policies
- →Draft a complete After-Action Report benchmarked against your internal procedures the moment you finish
Your participants pick up the phone —
and have a real conversation.
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.
Written inject
The character sends a memo, email, or statement — lands in the team's workspace as a formal exercise inject.
Live chat message
The character texts the team in real time. Facilitator types it, or CAL drafts it in-voice with one tap.
Live two-way phone call
The persona actually calls a joined participant. The AI drives a real, in-character conversation over the phone.
- →Put a hostile reporter on your PIOLive on-camera style pressure — pushes back on prepared statements, digs at contradictions, chases the story.
- →Escalate a CEO demanding a status briefImpatient, second-guessing, wants decisions now — forces your incident commander to communicate under pressure.
- →Run a regulator follow-up callPrecise procedural questions your team has to answer live — not rehearse over email.
- →Land a threatening family member at receptionMaking demands and refusing to leave — front-line staff has to de-escalate in real time.
- →Feed an anonymous tipster mid-scenarioNew information that changes the picture — the team has to decide what to trust and what to act on.
The difference between reading a scripted media inject —
and having a reporter actually call your PIO and push back for four minutes straight.
Everything a professional exercise demands
AI as Your Co-Facilitator
CAL monitors the live exercise, reads team responses, and gives you real-time briefings on pacing, gaps, and next moves. Generate injects, write persona messages, or call wildcards — mid-exercise.
In-Person, Virtual, or Hybrid
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.
Real-Time Inject Delivery
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.
Conversational AI Personas
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.
Branching & Wildcards
Exercises rarely go as planned — and they shouldn't. Wildcard challenges, on-demand responses, and last-minute timeline edits let you follow the room.
Team Seats: Multi-Facilitator & Observers
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.
Auto After Action Reports
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.
Every team in their own workspace
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.
Traditional tabletops are a once-a-year event.
CAL makes them a habit.
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.
Not your typical TTX software
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.
Take the tabletop
off the table.
A deeper look at the future of tabletop exercises
Explore the industry gaps CAL was built to address—and how a connected, facilitator-controlled environment can make exercises more immersive, repeatable, measurable, and useful.
Built for every team doing this work
Transparent, scales with your team
Pricing tracks facilitator seats and exercise frequency — the two things that actually drive cost. Get an instant estimate below.
Includes the standard ai usage pool for 1–5 facilitators.
- Unlimited scenarios & participants
- CAL-Powered Scenario Wizard
- AI co-pilot & live trigger alerts
- Automated AAR with PDF export
- Your own documents prime every scenario and benchmark every AAR
- Multimedia injects (image, audio, voice)
- Pooled monthly AI usage budget
Every plan includes a pooled monthly AI usage budget — no surprise bills. We'll let you know if you're approaching your limit, and AI features degrade gracefully rather than cutting off a live exercise. Have questions?
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