Tabletops · Simulations · Discussion-based exercises

The After-Action Report
exists at ENDEX.

re(ACT) is Shoreline Risk's intelligent exercise platform. One facilitator drives the entire event, with full visibility across every participant. There is nothing to download and no system conflicts. But most importantly, participants see their contributions in the draft After-Action Report before they ever leave the room.

Exercise Control 00:00:00 Running

M1·02 Inject 1.1

Segment 5 of 18 Page call P06 On schedule

Room screen Live Operating picture Synced Devices 38/40

One person can drive it all. At the press of a button, countdowns begin, injects deliver, scenarios advance, and each participant is individually engaged. The Console is the nerve center.

console runs every screen in the room

100%

of answers captured exactly as written

transcription, uploads or lost paper forms

Same day

draft After-Action Report, before the room empties

Why it exists

Exercise-ready capability,
nearly overnight.

Discussion-based exercises are how governments, companies and organizations find out whether their plans survive contact with reality — and the traditional way of building one takes months of consultants, documents and rehearsal. re(ACT) collapses that. Automated systems build an engaging, realistic, purpose-built exercise on your ground truth in days, and one facilitator delivers the whole event.

Test

Put your plans under live pressure. Injects derived from your own SOPs expose the gaps a document review never will — while the room is still together to talk about them.

Validate

Evidence, not impressions. Every answer is captured exactly as written and scored against your objectives, so findings stand up when the report reaches the executive.

Train

Participants rehearse the actual decisions of their actual posts — notification cascades, situation reports, continuity plans — and leave with commitments that carry owners and dates.

The system — green means live, screens follow the console

One console. Every screen in lock-step.

The facilitator's console drives the projector, the operating picture and every participant's device the instant it moves.

Live Console — Exercise Controlscripts · timers · page calls · keyboard control

Room Display — projectormirrors the console instantly

Common Operating Pictureadvancing with the scenario

Participant Guidesevery seat · their own devices

Eight components — and every one of them ships with every engagement.

Exercise control

Live Console

The scripted run of show — read-alouds, prompts, segment timers and page calls — run from one screen.

The room

Room Display

The projector view: giant page calls, countdowns and breaks, mirroring the console the instant it moves.

The room

Operating Picture

The live map, diagram, screen, or other visual interpretation of the scenario, advancing automatically to reflect each inject.

Every participant

Participant Guide

On each player's device and controlled by the facilitator, each answer autosaves as it is written.

Evaluators

Evaluator Form

Structured observation scored live against your objectives, with running notes. Exports at ENDEX.

After ENDEX

Results Compiler

Ingests participant responses on demand at any point during the exercise, drawing from cloud-based repositories. Nothing transcribed from paper, nothing lost.

After ENDEX

Same-Day AAR

A draft After-Action Report generated on demand, using participants' responses while they are still in the room. Every paragraph editable in place.

Exercise control

Mission Control

Live insight into participant behavior and system status. Gives facilitators and observers real-time feedback on who's responded and who's behind track, or whether anything needs attention.

Illustrative operating picture: a grid event with feeder loss, substations, a hospital on generator and restoration times over satellite imagery. Rebuilt for each jurisdiction. Imagery: USGS / NASA Landsat

Based on your plans

Built on your ground truth.

Nothing generic reaches the room. The scenario and injects are derived from your own SOPs, the evaluation instrument is mapped to your objectives, and the operating picture is drawn on your geography, districts, feeders, shelters and critical facilities — with the hazard, from hurricane to grid failure, modelled to recognized methods.

Runs in the browser — nothing to install Works without web access Every answer autosaved & compiled Designed in days, not months

Proven Performance

The re(ACT) platform has been successfully deployed in multiple countries, supporting a broad range of stakeholders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Delivery 01

Multistakeholder response —
full-day tabletop

National government level

4 hrs

Duration

35+

Participants

Objectives

Injects

Shape of the day

OpenThree modules · two breaksEndex

A cyclone crossing a populated coastline, played across three modules from pre-impact readiness to recovery. Delegates worked in mixed syndicate tables of five to seven, each answering for their own organization rather than a role assigned to them.

Two evaluators scored against six objectives while the room worked. Every table produced a written commitment sheet before members left.

Outcome. Findings against all six objectives, consolidated commitments across every table, and an improvement plan with named owners and target dates.

Delivery 02

Ministerial liaison —
half-day tabletop

National government level

2 hrs

Duration

Participants

Objectives

Injects

Shape of the session

OpenThree modules · one breakEndex

Liaison officers drawn from across central government, each running their own ministry or agency through the same storm — alone at first, then reporting upward, then rebuilding the record afterwards.

Officers answered in a guide on their own devices, page-gated to the facilitator's calls, including a complete situation report drafted under time pressure on the national template.

Outcome. Every submission captured live, an outcomes report compiled at ENDEX, and a same-day draft after-action report written from the room's own words.

Identity of clients, relevant agencies, participant affiliations, locations, and scenario names are protected information and anonymized above. All exercise content, participant data, and event results belong to the commissioning organization and are never published unless specifically requested. Figures on these examples describe scale and structure only.

How an engagement works — one team, end to end

01 · Design

From your plans

Objectives and evaluation mapped to your plans; scenario, injects and read-aloud scripts derived from your SOPs; bespoke cartography of your jurisdiction; the run of show scripted end to end.

02 · Deliver

On the day

Facilitated by Shoreline Risk — or by your team, trained on the platform. Console, room display, operating picture, page-gated participant capture and structured evaluation, live in the room.

03 · Report

Before the room empties

Submissions compiled at ENDEX on the facilitator's device. The draft After-Action Report — findings per objective, consolidated commitments, an improvement plan — in hand the same day.

re(ACT) BURST — a tabletop exercise in the length of a coffee break

Deploy from anywhere.
Facilitate from anywhere.
Participate from anywhere.

A BURST is a micro tabletop exercise — twenty to thirty minutes, end to end — that runs from a single web address. There is nothing to book, ship or install. The facilitator presses Start, and from that moment every screen watching that address runs the same exercise clock, so a laptop in a kitchen and a projector in a boardroom land on the same inject at the same second. Participants answer one short question per inject on their phones. Because a BURST can be written and stood up on a moment's notice, it suits the things that arise between exercises: a policy that has just changed, a procedure nobody has walked through, a decision about to be taken for the first time.

01
The invitation

A link goes out by email or text, with the time to open it.
02
Everyone opens it

Any browser, wherever they are. Nothing to install and no account to make.
03
One press of Start

The facilitator starts the clock, and every screen runs the same inject at the same second.
04
Answers tally on arrival

Answers arrive as they are written, and at ENDEX the deck follows on every screen.

No room to book, no screens to set up, nobody who has to be in the same building. What everyone shares is the address and the clock — which is why a BURST can be called at short notice and still run like a scripted exercise.

Test

Put a procedure in front of the people who would have to use it and see what they actually do with it. Each inject carries one question, and the answers are the evidence — not a show of hands.

Teach

Reinforce something the organization has already written down. Every question carries a model answer and the reason behind it, so the exercise corrects as it runs rather than waiting on a report to do it.

Validate

Find out whether a new policy is read the same way by everyone it applies to. The results show where the room agreed, where it split, and what needs reinforcing — measured, not estimated.

One run, end to end T+0:00 → T+0:25

Brief Injects of three to five minutes ENDEX · results

Results before anyone has left.

As with a full re(ACT) engagement, nothing waits for a report. At ENDEX the facilitator retrieves the results and the deck appears on every screen at once, advanced for everyone from one place: what the room answered, inject by inject, set against what the plan actually says — well established, mostly there, or needs reinforcing.

So the discussion about what happens next takes place while the scenario is still fresh and everyone who took part is still in it. The facilitator downloads the full record afterwards; that is the only place names appear.

Ask about a BURST

Tell us what changed. We will say whether a BURST or a full exercise is the right instrument — and if it is a BURST, how soon it can run.

See it run

A New Approach

Three and a half minutes. Use the controls to pause or replay.

Shoreline Risk

Tell us what you
need to test.

Test, validate, learn, improve — start with the outcome you need and we design backwards from it.

Built bespoke. Your hazard, your structures, your objectives, your templates. Never a template with the names changed.
Fast when the date cannot move. Our team has gone from request to delivery as fast as twenty-four hours' time.
Enhancements on demand. The features you need for an ideal simulation. Your branding, your messaging, your imagery.

We build exercises that are worth participants' time. The bar is set high for achieving individual and organizational change through exercise. Participants describe re(ACT) exercises as “engaging,” “interesting,” and “rewarding” — worthy of the time they give.

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The After-Action Reportexists at ENDEX.