Business Continuity Agent
RunningA continuity plan is worth what its last rehearsal proved.
Most continuity plans are written once, filed, and discovered to be wrong during the incident. This agent runs the rehearsal instead: a facilitated exercise that puts your team under a scenario, records what they actually decided, and turns the gaps into a plan you have evidence for.
- Acts in a session
- 3
- A first full run
- ~2h
- A rehearsal after that
- ~1.5h
What Happens
How a session actually runs.
- 1
Map what would actually hurt
A guided impact analysis that adapts its questions to who is answering, because a technical lead and an operations manager know different halves of the same dependency. It establishes which systems are critical, how long each can be down, and how much data you could stand to lose.
- 2
Run the scenario
A live exercise with staged reveals and real time pressure. The point is not to pass. It is to find out where the plan says one thing and the room does another, which is information you cannot get from reading the plan.
- 3
Turn the session into the plan
Responses become a structured continuity plan, including the disagreements. Where two people gave incompatible answers, that surfaces as a gap to resolve rather than being smoothed over into a sentence nobody will act on.
What You Get
What you are left holding.
A continuity plan
Structured from what the exercise established rather than from a template, so the recovery objectives in it are ones people have already argued about.
A testing schedule
When each part gets rehearsed next. This is the artefact that turns a one-off exercise into the thing an auditor is actually looking for.
A reusable scenario library
The scenarios you ran, kept, so the next rehearsal is not another two hours of invention. It can also be pre-loaded from the risk work if you have done it.
Is It For You
It needs a room, not just a login.
This one is different from the rest of the fleet: it is a facilitated exercise, so it wants real people for a couple of hours, ideally including someone who could actually authorise a recovery decision. Run alone it will produce a document, but the document will have the same defect as the one you already have, which is that nobody has tested whether they agree with it.
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