Pricing

What a carrier-ready tabletop costs

Two fixed prices.

$15,000 for a Carrier-Ready Tabletop. One exercise and everything this year's renewal asks for.

$25,000 a year for the Annual Readiness Program. Two exercises rather than one, so the exercise reaches the operational layer as well as the executive one, and someone who knows your business is in the room when your broker starts asking.

Both figures are Canadian dollars, both are fixed before you commit, and both carry the Carrier Acceptance Guarantee.

Program tiers

Two fixed-price programs. Know exactly what you get and what it costs before you commit.

Tier 1

Carrier-Ready Tabletop

We build and run a tailored tabletop exercise for your leadership team, then write the report your carrier is asking for.

  • Review of your crisis and incident response plan, playbooks and processes
  • One custom-built scenario for your industry and risk profile
  • A 3-hour live, facilitated session
  • Written after-action report
  • Signed attestation with date, duration and participants
  • Covered by the Carrier Acceptance Guarantee
$15,000 Book now

Reduced pricing is available to registered charities, not-for-profits and non-governmental organizations. Raise it on the scoping call.

Who chooses the Annual Readiness Program

Regulated firms in financial services and healthcare, companies working through a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit, and anyone who has already had an incident, where the next person to read the report is a regulator or a claims reviewer rather than an underwriter.

Choosing

Which tier is right for you?

Most companies start with the single tabletop because a renewal date is bearing down on them. That is a reasonable way in. The Annual Readiness Program is for teams who want more than a point-in-time answer: a second exercise aimed at the operational layer, a check on whether last year's recommendations were actually closed, and a facilitator who can speak to the exercise directly when your broker or your auditor asks about it.

If this is youWe recommend
A renewal or a customer questionnaire is in front of you now and you need evidence onceCarrier-Ready Tabletop
You have never run a tabletop and want to see what it produces before committing furtherCarrier-Ready Tabletop
Your broker or carrier has signalled that testing will be checked again at the next renewalAnnual Readiness Program
You are in a regulated sector, or working through SOC 2 or ISO 27001Annual Readiness Program
Your leadership team changes often enough that last year's exercise no longer describes the roomAnnual Readiness Program
You want someone in the renewal call who can speak to the exercise directlyAnnual Readiness Program

Still deciding between the two? 20 minutes on a call and you will know which one fits.

Book a 20-minute scoping call

What decides whether your carrier accepts your evidence is what is in the report, not whose logo is on the cover.

A national firm will quote a company your size a multiple of this, and a good share of what comes back is a scenario off a shelf and a report that reads like it was generated rather than written. The three hours are the same three hours. We created our company because a leadership team of 50 to 300 people should be able to buy the real exercise without buying the overhead that comes attached to it.

* We run a limited number of facilitated sessions each month. Renewal-window bookings get scheduling priority.

The Carrier Acceptance Guarantee

If your insurer won't accept the report, we rewrite it until they do.

No extra fee No deadline No argument

You are buying proof. If it does not work as proof, it is not finished. That is our problem to fix, not yours.

The guarantee

What the guarantee covers, in full

Short version. If the report does not do its job as evidence, we keep working on it until it does, and it costs you nothing further.

What triggers it

Your carrier, your broker, your auditor or an enterprise customer tells you in writing that the after-action report or the attestation does not meet their requirement. Forward us what they said. That is the whole process.

What we do

  • Revise the report to address the specific point raised, as many times as it takes
  • Reissue the attestation if the wording or the level of detail is what is in question
  • Join a call with the person asking, if it is faster to settle it live
  • Run additional exercise segments at no charge if the gap is genuinely one of coverage rather than documentation

What it does not cover

We are careful about this, because a guarantee that quietly overpromises is worse than no guarantee.

  • It does not guarantee that your carrier issues a policy, renews a policy, or prices it a particular way. Underwriting weighs many controls and we are one of them.
  • It does not guarantee a premium reduction. Anyone promising you one is guessing.
  • It does not cover a rejection based on facts rather than evidence. If the exercise shows your plan has a serious gap, the report says so, and we will not remove a finding to make the document more flattering. That is the one revision we will refuse.
We will rewrite the report as many times as it takes. We will not rewrite what happened in the room.

There is no time limit and no revision cap. If your carrier comes back eight months later with a new question about the same exercise, that is still covered.

Context

Is $15,000 a lot for a three-hour exercise?

It is 3 hours in a room with your leadership team and one fixed invoice, set against a number that moves in the other direction every year.

1.7 million USD

Average ransomware recovery cost per incident, before any ransom is paid. Up 11 percent year over year.

Sophos, State of Ransomware 2026. Source

In Canada the pattern is fewer incidents costing considerably more. Statistics Canada put the share of businesses impacted by a cyber security incident at 16 percent in 2023, down from previous cycles, while total business recovery spending roughly doubled to 1.2 billion dollars. Statistics Canada, Canadian Survey of Cyber Security and Cybercrime, released October 2024.

The more immediate arithmetic is usually the renewal itself. For a company of 50 to 300 people, the gap between a clean renewal and a loaded one, or between full coverage and a reduced limit, is frequently larger than the price of the exercise that would have answered the question.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does the after-action report take?

Fifteen days from the session to the delivered report. That is a commitment, not an average. If a scheduling problem on our side puts it at risk we tell you before the session, not after it.

What is in the after-action report?

Eight sections: a summary, the scope and scenario, participants and the role each played, a timeline of the decisions the room made, what the room did well, findings with a severity against each, prioritised recommendations each with a named owner and a date we set, and the signed attestation page. An appendix maps the report to the questions a renewal application asks, so a broker can attach it without a covering note.

Is there a more detailed version of the report?

Yes. The Extended Exercise Record adds three things: the observed decision timeline with a clock time against every entry, MITRE ATT&CK mapping on the scenario with NIST CSF 2.0 mapping on the findings and recommendations, and a line-by-line comparison of your written plan against what the room actually did, with your plan marked up. It is $8,000 as an add-on and it is included in the Annual Readiness Program. It earns its price when the next reader of the report is a regulator, an auditor or a claims reviewer rather than an underwriter. Ask on the scoping call and we will walk you through a full sample.

Why is the Annual Readiness Program only $10,000 more?

Because the second exercise costs us far less than the first. The documentation review, the participant mapping and the scenario architecture are already done, and the facilitator already knows your business. So the second tabletop and the Extended Exercise Record are priced at what they cost us to deliver rather than at what the first engagement was worth. It is not a discount on the tabletop, it is a different product with a different cost base.

What happens when someone on our leadership team leaves?

On the Annual Readiness Program, re-onboarding is included. A new CFO or a new head of communications is brought up to speed on the scenario history and the open recommendations before the next exercise, at no additional cost. On a single Carrier-Ready Tabletop there is nothing to re-onboard into, because the engagement has ended.

What happens to our data?

Your documentation and everything discussed in the session stay private to your organisation. We do not use exercise material to train public AI models, we do not reuse your scenario with another client, and we do not name you as a client anywhere without written permission. You decide what documentation we see before we see it.

How much of our team's time does this actually take?

The session itself is three hours. Around it sit the scoping call, the documentation handover and the readout, roughly five hours spread across a few weeks and mostly not the same people twice. Building the scenario, running the room and writing the report happen on our side.

What is not included in the price?

Technical testing of any kind. A tabletop tests decisions, not systems, so penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability scanning and disaster recovery failover all sit outside it. We also do not write or rewrite your incident response plan. We test the one you have and tell you in the report where it breaks.

Are these prices in Canadian dollars, and does the session have to be in person?

Both figures are Canadian dollars and both cover preparation, facilitation, the report and the attestation. Applicable taxes appear on the invoice. Sessions run remotely by default and the price is the same either way. If you want the room in person, travel is quoted at cost and you see that number before you commit to anything.

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