Use cases
Exercises and training where everyone takes part, not only the people at the table
Tactirun was built for crisis-management exercises, and the same approach works wherever a facilitator leads a group through a situation: incident and safety exercises, training courses, workshops and exercises across organisations. The facilitator stays in control; participants contribute from their own phones.
Where Tactirun started
Crisis and continuity exercises
Walk a crisis team through an unfolding situation — a flood, a long power cut, a cyber incident — and capture every decision along the way.
- Present each development as a slide at the moment it happens in the scenario.
- Ask the team what they do next and see the spread of answers before discussing it.
- Send some slides only to the roles or units they concern.
- Leave with a report that shows what was decided, by whom (or anonymously) and where the gaps were.
Exercises across organisations
Municipalities, agencies and companies exercising together need to see how each part of the response performed.
- Describe participants by organisation, region or role with your own attributes and institution catalogue.
- Compare results between organisations and roll units up to their parent institutions.
- Give observers and evaluators a read-only Console.
- Share pseudonymous or anonymous reports with partners, with small groups suppressed.
Cyber incident and continuity tabletops
Test the incident-response and continuity plans that regulation such as NIS2 expects you to have — with the people who would carry them out, not only the people who wrote them.
- Play the incident out slide by slide — the first alert, the escalation, the call from a journalist — and ask each role what it does now.
- Compare how IT, management and communications answered the same question.
- Keep the report as a record that the plan was exercised, and of where it needs work.
Safety and emergency drills
Before or after a fire, evacuation or first-aid drill, check what people know and collect what they saw — while it is still fresh.
- Run a short knowledge check with scored questions and reveal the right answers to the group.
- Gather observations from everyone anonymously, so the problems actually get mentioned.
- Break the results down by site, shift or team with your own participant attributes.
Training courses and workshops
Keep a room of learners engaged — on a course, an onboarding day or a leadership workshop — and give the trainer something to assess.
- Check understanding with scored questions and reveal the answers when the group has responded.
- Collect one-word and written answers for discussion without anyone having to speak first.
- Assess participants on the course competences and show each person their own radar at the end.
- Reuse the same scenario for every course group; each run is kept separately.
Consultants and training companies
Run exercises and courses for your clients from one place, with a report each client can keep.
- Keep your scenarios as versions and run the same one for every client; each run and its answers stay separate.
- Give the client a report in the privacy level they need, or a share link that expires.
- Invite the client's own evaluators as observers with a read-only Console.
Why Tactirun
More than a live poll
A polling tool asks a question. Tactirun runs the whole exercise, from the scenario to the after-action report.
- The facilitator leads: a slide goes out when its moment comes, and answers are revealed when the group is ready.
- Results by any participant attribute — organisation, role, region — not only one total.
- Assessment against competences, with a radar for the group and for each person.
- Anonymous answers that stay anonymous, reports in three privacy levels, hosting in the EU (Finland) or on your own servers.
A typical exercise
Before
The author writes the scenario in Studio and publishes it. The facilitator schedules a run, invites participants or imports them from a spreadsheet, and sets the attributes to ask on joining.
During
Participants join from their phones. The facilitator sends the situation slide by slide, reveals answers, answers questions and watches the results by group.
After
Facilitators assess answers and competences, review the radar, and generate the report for the after-action review in the privacy level it needs.
Planning an exercise or a training course?
Tell us how many people take part and whether you want Tactirun hosted or on your own servers. We reply with a quote and, if you like, a walkthrough.