Rehearsal is priced for organizations that already have a security team.
A consultancy will run this kind of exercise for you. It costs tens of thousands and takes weeks to book. The organizations most likely to lose donor money to a fake invoice, or expose a case file by emailing the wrong list, are the ones that will never buy that. This is the same exercise, run by your own operations manager, for a fraction of the price.
Four decisions that shaped it.
- 01
The clock is not negotiable
Updates arrive on a timer, and there is no button to bring the next one early. Any exercise that waits for the room to finish talking turns into a meeting about something hypothetical. Real incidents arrive while you are still mid-sentence, and that pressure is the thing you are rehearsing.
- 02
Scenarios are written, not generated
Every scenario in the library was written by hand and reviewed. The app can reword an update so it fits your organization, but it cannot write a scenario or state a deadline — that part of the system has no way to create either. A drill that invents a legal deadline is worse than no drill, because a room will act on it.
- 03
Nobody is named
Decisions are recorded against a role, never against a person. The report loses a little precision that way. In exchange, people admit the gaps they are embarrassed about — and those are the ones worth finding.
- 04
The report is the product
The hour is worth something on its own, but what lasts is the document. If an executive director would not forward the After-Action Report to a funder without editing it first, nothing else about this product matters. That is the bar it is held to before anything new gets built.
Built for the organizations the big tools were never priced for.
Practice Makes Ready is built by Impaque, a small agency that makes software for organizations enterprise tools have priced out.
If you would rather talk before you run anything — about doing this across several organizations, about whether it fits yours, or about something in the data handling you would want changed — write to us.
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