Your plans will not decide for you under pressure
Faster decisions, cleaner ownership, calmer comms posture, protected trust
Built for executives, risk leaders, and boards who own outcomes and fallout.
30 minutes. We’ll define decision rights, pick the right scenario, and set success criteria.
Most teams don’t lose to the incident. They lose to the time they spend deciding.
Everyone assumes alignment
Until pressure shows the truth.
Decision rights get fuzzy
Time disappears. Risk expands.
Differing goals compete
Security, legal, comms, and ops are pulling in different directions.
Proof is lacking
Your board gets reports. Not proof.
A 15-minute template that helps you to make “who decides what” explicit, with required consults, escalation triggers, and time-boxes so teams stop stalling under pressure.
When the pressure hits, plans do not decide. People do.
If you’ve ever watched a capable team slow down when it matters, you’re not alone. Most breakdowns are not a lack of intelligence. They are unclear decision rights, messy handoffs, and competing priorities colliding in real time. SageSims exists to make those seams visible before they become a board-level event.
A board-ready, first-30-minutes incident kickoff runbook that will help you turn confusion into aligned decisions, disciplined comms, and immediate containment.
We run time-bound, realistic simulations for executive teams and boards across cyber incidents, vendor outages, operational disruption, and AI governance.
Each session follows a repeatable method. Pre-brief, live scenario with timed injects,
The simulation ends with a structured debrief that turns friction into identified opportunity areas.
Training builds knowledge and most tabletop exercises test awareness. SageSims rehearses decisions, conflict, timing, and ownership under pressure.
SageSims turns plans into practiced decision-making
This is not training. It’s not tabletop theater. It’s real-time decision rehearsal built to expose the seams. Decision rights. Escalation. Cross-functional handoffs. Communication under pressure.
You practice it together. Then you fix what the practice reveals.
Designed for board-level oversight and executive operations
Built around decision rights, escalation, and cross-functional coordination
Focused on proof, not vibes
A consistent, board-ready after-action template that proves readiness by capturing what you rehearsed, where decisions slowed, and what changes shipped with owners and dates.
A simple plan to build speed and alignment
Step 1. Choose the decisions that matter most
Pick a scenario and define success. What decisions must be made fast. Who must be aligned.
Step 2. Rehearse under real constraints
Time pressure. Imperfect information. Cross-functional tradeoffs. Just like the real moment.
Step 3. Debrief becomes ownership and changes that ship
Clear decision rights. Clean escalation paths. Better handoffs. A short action list with named owners.
Learn about services that help leadership teams rehearse high-stakes moments (cyber, AI, vendor, ops) so they can make faster, cleaner decisions when it actually counts.
What you take away
A clear decision-rights map for the scenario
A tighter escalation path that speeds action
A clean handoff and comms rhythm for the first 30 minutes
A short list of fixes to ship in the next 2 to 4 weeks, with owners
A board-ready summary that shows readiness and improvement, not just intent
Less chaos. Faster decisions. Stronger trust.
When something breaks, your team makes the call in minutes, not meetings.
A 15-minute worksheet that exposes where cross-team handoffs break, then defines owners, time-boxes, and “done” so execution stops stalling at the seams.
Speed comes from alignment. Not heroics.
Most breakdowns happen in the seams between teams. Security, IT, legal, comms, operations, finance. Each group has a reasonable perspective. Under pressure, those perspectives collide unless you’ve practiced together.
SageSims makes the seams visible, then helps you strengthen them.
A 15-minute template that helps you to make “who decides what” explicit, with required consults, escalation triggers, and time-boxes so teams stop stalling under pressure.
Simulations that test your decision-making
If you and your team could become experts in navigating one type of scenario, what would it be? Here are some examples of simulation types that forward-thinking organizations are using to refine their decision-making.
Vendor and Third-Party Failure
Outages, data exposure, cascading dependencies, and comms control.
AI Governance and Risk
Misuse, policy gaps, accountability, and reputational fallout.
Cyber Incident Readiness
Containment, disclosure, customer impact, and hard tradeoffs.
Operational Disruption
Service degradation, recovery decisions, and escalation clarity.
Board Decision Readiness
Oversight under pressure, reporting cadence, and decision discipline.
Gain access to practical guides and tools to sharpen decision rights and cross-functional response.
Why this works when tabletops and training stall
Real-time decision practice, not slideware
Cross-functional by design. The conflict is the point
Consequence-driven learning. Second-order effects show up
Debrief turns practice into operating changes with owners
Board-ready output. Clear proof
Learn more about realistic simulations and readiness support that help leadership teams clarify decision rights, tighten cross-functional handoffs, and act fast when a high-stakes moment hits.
Common questions customers ask
We already do tabletop exercises.
Great start. Tabletop often tests awareness. SageSims focuses on testing decisions, timing, conflict, and ownership.
We do training.
Training builds knowledge. Practice builds behavior under pressure.
We don’t have time.
You’re already spending the time. You’re just spending it during the incident when it’s most expensive.
This will make us look unprepared.
Practicing is a maturity signal. No serious team goes live without rehearsal.
You’re about to ask your leadership team to invest time in a readiness session. This guide makes that ask easy.
Download this guide and you will have the language, ROI framing, and a simple 90-day rollout you can forward internally to get a fast yes. Fewer debates. Faster alignment. Clear outputs your execs and board will respect.