Crisis Simulation for the 21st Century.
Replace static, paper-based exercises with realistic, high-pressure decision rehearsal. Vantage immerses your team in a live information environment that reacts to every choice they make.
Legacy crisis exercises are no longer fit for purpose.
Static & scripted
Pre-set outcomes remove agency, pressure and realism.
PowerPoint or paper-based
Cannot simulate the chaos of a real-world information flow.
Inaccessible
The need for specialist skills limits uptake across sectors.
Siloed & narrow in focus
Most exercises explore only a single threat vector.
Resource intensive
Costly to plan, difficult to scale and rarely repeatable.
Subjective debriefs
Insights depend on facilitator opinion, not measurable data.
Simulations, redefined.
A flight simulator for crisis leadership: a synthetic, 21st-century information environment where exercises evolve in real time as participants act and decide.
AI Scenario Editor
Build or adapt complex scenarios in hours, not weeks, for any sector or threat. No specialist expertise required.
Realistic, high-stakes environments
Real-world information flow, ambiguity, noise and urgency, delivered across email, cables, news, social media and calls.
Dynamic & adaptive exercises
Every decision triggers consequences. The scenario branches based on what each team actually does.
Agentic AI actors
Autonomous role-players, such as journalists, ministers and partners, each with their own goals, biases and personality.
Exercise control dashboard
Live orchestration tools let facilitators escalate, steer, pause or branch the scenario at any moment.
Hindsight analytics
Structured post-exercise intelligence: timelines, scores and decision paths that turn debriefs into evidence.
Everything your team would see in a real crisis, in one place.
Participants work inside a platform that mirrors the real world. Content arrives on a schedule or in response to their actions, and nothing ever touches your live systems.
Cables & briefings
Official situation reports and directives, with submission deadlines.
Simulated email
Two-way inboxes with verified senders, phishing lures and reply templates.
News feeds
Breaking headlines and articles that react to your team's public statements.
Social media
A live social feed full of noise, rumour and escalating public pressure.
Phone calls
Incoming calls from stakeholders that demand an answer under time pressure.
Maps
Geospatial context for incidents, assets and unfolding events.
Simulated tools
Block an IP, scan for malware, issue a press release. Every action has a consequence.
Decisions & submissions
Questionnaires, decision points and written submissions that branch the story.
Every decision changes what happens next.
Behind each exercise is a milestone engine. Team actions switch milestones on or off, and milestones decide which events arrive next, so no two teams live through the same crisis.
Event arrives
An alert about unusual network traffic lands in the Cables channel.
Team responds
They run the traffic analysis tool and block the source IP.
State changes
ip_blocked switches on and the team earns points.
Story branches
New injects unlock for that team only, in real time.
From objective to insight in five phases.
A structured method guides you through every exercise, whether it's your first or your fiftieth.
Understand
Define the goals, scope, participants and constraints of your exercise.
Specify
Set learning objectives and map them to activities, milestones and injects.
Prepare
Build the scenario in the AI editor, or start from a ready-made template.
Execute
Run the exercise live while facilitators monitor and steer every team.
Reflect
Review scores, timelines and decisions, then turn findings into action.
Full control during the exercise. Hard evidence after it.
Watch every team's progress live, answer their emails as any character, and inject surprises when the pressure needs to rise. When it's over, every action is on record.
- Live progress, milestones and scores for each team
- Reply as any stakeholder using ready-made templates
- Pause, escalate or trigger events on demand
- AI-assisted assessment of written responses
- Exportable logs and performance overviews
Test your plan before a real crisis tests it for you.
Exercises let organisation find the gaps in their response while mistakes are still free, so they can respond faster, collaborate better and recover sooner.
- Stress-test plans, policies and procedures
- Calibrate leadership and decision-making across teams
- Understand risks, vulnerabilities and dependencies
- Train your staff and prepare them for the unexpected
- Build resilience and trust between partner organisation
- Expose weaknesses, gaps and inefficiencies safely
Realistic
Scenarios reflect the real pressures, complexity and uncertainty of your environment.
Immersive
A live stream of news, messages and calls from stakeholders, partners and the media.
Challenging
Hard choices under time pressure, with consequences that play out in front of them.
Insightful
A clear, data-backed picture of how the team performed and where to improve.
Empowering
Confidence and practised skills that transfer directly to a real incident.
Any organisation. Any threat.
From cyber attacks to natural disasters and geopolitical crises, Vantage adapts to the threats your organisation actually faces.
Ready to enhance your crisis preparedness?
Don't wait for a crisis to test your response. Book a demo and see a live exercise in action.