CAL connects the plan, the people in the room, the live story, and the evidence that matters—without asking users to learn complicated crisis software.
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.
Prepare
Begin with the purpose
Agree on the objectives, confirm who will be in the room, and give each team the right starting information before play begins.
Objectives from prior learning or facilitator agreement
Planned teams, real coverage, and leader preflight
One reviewed story with facilitator approval gates
Run
Keep the room focused on decisions
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.
Narrative story moments and purposeful decisions
One clear next action for participants and facilitators
Private CAL guidance from the current exercise record
Learn
Leave with evidence and a way forward
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.
Objective-based evidence, not generic scoring
Constructive strengths and forward-looking opportunities
Owned actions that can shape the next exercise
The learning stays connected
Agreed objective
Starting information
Story moment
Team decision
Observed evidence
Next action
Distinctive by design
More than a digital inject board
CAL brings scenario design, live orchestration, team information sharing, AI support, and after-action learning into one connected record. The value is not a longer list of controls—it is that each part knows how it relates to the others.
Connected learning design
Every scenario element has a reason to exist
The Scenario Blueprint connects each facilitator-approved objective to what teams know, what happens, what they must decide, and what the AAR can actually observe.
See how it works
Carry objectives forward from an earlier AAR or add them deliberately for this exercise
See missing connections before game day—not during the debrief
Keep CAL aligned to the agreed learning purpose as the scenario changes
Live CAL context
AI support informed by the exercise happening now
CAL reloads the current authorized exercise record before every response, so its guidance can reflect delivered events, real team activity, approved plans, and reviewed preflight information.
See how it works
Uses current facts, tasks, messages, responses, decisions, documents, and timing
Applies role and team boundaries to the context used for each request
Keeps facilitator-only plans and unreleased content out of participant views
Adaptive—but controlled
The story can respond without running away from the facilitator
CAL can identify an opportunity, prepare a conditional branch, or draft a stakeholder response. Nothing consequential is released until a facilitator reviews and approves it.
See how it works
Manual mode for on-request help; Co-Pilot mode for private live monitoring
Branching Center for conditional injects, facilitator branches, and stakeholder delivery
Unreleased alternatives remain private and stay out of the AAR
Real information flow
Requests become part of the exercise—not side conversations
The Response Bench maps who is played, simulated, external, or out of scope, then routes participant requests to the right place and records what answer was actually delivered.
See how it works
Prepare response cards and source boundaries before the exercise
Link a request to the team task or decision it supports
Draft from authorized context, then approve the response in the moment
Safe rehearsal
Test improvements without changing the real workshop
Scenario Studio creates a private test copy for trying new facts, story beats, tasks, or pacing. The facilitator compares the result and promotes only the selected changes.
See how it works
Experiment away from the live exercise record
Review a clear before-and-after comparison
Keep recovery points and facilitator approval around permanent changes
Constructive learning
The AAR follows the evidence, not hidden expectations
CAL turns the delivered story and observed team work into an editable review of strengths, opportunities in the work, objective evidence, and practical next actions.
See how it works
Evaluate only what participants received and what the exercise could observe
Describe opportunities politely and forward—without judging the people in the room
Export an editable record and carry agreed learning into the next exercise
Human judgment remains in charge.
CAL can connect, monitor, draft, and recommend. The facilitator approves objectives, participant-facing information, live story changes, responses, and final learning products.
CAL’s live context
CAL works from the exercise that is happening—not the exercise that was planned yesterday.
Before each CAL response, the platform rebuilds an authorized exercise snapshot from the current record. Source boundaries and facilitator approvals remain visible; CAL cannot release consequential content on its own.
Delivered injects, tasks, deadlines, and team responses
Team facts, documents, requests, chat, and workspace decisions
Reviewed leader preflight, participant surveys, and actual team presence
Approved objectives, planned branches, personas, and prepared responses
The complete capability system
Deep capability, organized around the work
Visitors should not need to know CAL’s internal structure to understand its value. These four phases show what the platform enables from first design decision through the next round of improvement.
Prepare
Build one connected exercise
A facilitator can see what is ready, what is missing, and how the pieces support the learning goals.
Guided scenario creation with human, narrative-style drafts
Objectives from prior AARs or facilitator-reviewed additions
Planned teams, actual attendance, and coverage-gap mapping
Private leader preflight and a shorter participant check-in
Team-specific starting facts with sources, audiences, and review status
Response cards, story media, personas, references, and a launch-readiness checklist
Run
Orchestrate the room in real time
The facilitator stays focused on the room while the platform keeps the story, requests, and team activity together.
Prepare, Live Exercise, and Debrief views with the next important issue surfaced first
Live timeline, task delivery, response tracking, deadlines, and team status
CAL Co-Pilot, Branching Center, Response Bench, and stakeholder personas
Multiple facilitators with live presence and sent-by attribution
Read-only observer access and a participant-safe Projector view
Recovery snapshots for selected changes and unexpected edits
Participate
Give every team a clear place to work
Participants spend their attention on the problem—not on learning the software.
Join by code without creating an account
A reopenable participant briefing and role-relevant Now and What We Know views
Team facts with provenance, sharing controls, and information requests
Focused tasks, response submission, documents, media, and chat
Dedicated BTAM and crisis-team workspaces
Plain-language status and guidance without facilitator-only labels
Learn
Turn activity into useful follow-through
The exercise ends with an evidence-backed story of what worked, what can improve, and what happens next.
Facilitator and observer notes captured while the exercise is running
Objective-by-objective evidence from delivered stimuli and observed work
Constructive strengths and opportunities focused on the scenario work
Editable AAR with PDF and PowerPoint export
Assigned next actions and learning objectives for future exercises
A reusable organizational learning record—not a one-time event summary
One shared record, different views for different jobs
Facilitators see controls and private reasoning. Participants see only what helps their team act. Observers get a safe read-only view, and the Projector shows the common operating picture without exposing facilitator material.
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Guided scenario setup
CAL drafts a connected, organization-aware exercise while the facilitator reviews the objectives, teams, starting information, story, and decisions.
Define stakeholder characters — reporters, regulators, angry customers — with full backstories. Participants interrogate them live; the AI stays in character.
Drive the exercise as a team. Multiple facilitators run one scenario together with live presence and attribution; observers watch live without touching the room.
Any co-facilitator's inject syncs instantly to the other
Read-only observer seats for stakeholders + evaluators
Sent-by attribution captured in the AAR
Access through CPPS
Bring CAL into your next client exercise or program.
CPPS handles engagement scoping, contracting, onboarding, and external billing directly. For access and subscription information, contact jameson.ritter@cpps.com.
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