Running a session

1. 1

   Assign the roles

   Decide which roles real people will play and which are left to AI. At least one role must be a human — a tabletop can't run on AI alone.
2. 2

   Pick the exercise language

   A simulation runs in English or Dutch. The whole war room — the AI roles, system messages, and the debrief — follows the language the scenario was written in.
3. 3

   Start the session

   The clock begins and the first injects go out.

When you enter the war room, a Your rolecard is pinned at the top with your responsibilities. It's private to you — a quick reminder of what your role is expected to handle, so you know when to step in.

Exercise time is the real time the session runs: a fixed budget of 30 to 120 minutes. A facilitator can pause and resume — the clock freezes while paused. When the full duration is reached, the session closes automatically; an organiser can also end it early.

Scenario timeis where the incident has got to. The story opens at a set moment — say Tuesday 07:40 — and runs along with the exercise, so ten minutes of discussion is ten minutes in the story. Some injects move the story ahead (“6 hours later”): everyone sees it happen, whichever channel they have open. Messages, documents and the debrief all read their times off this clock, written as T+ from the moment the story opened.

Once the session ends it becomes read-only and a debrief is generated: response times, how the team did against good practice, and concrete recommendations. It's where the learning lands — review it together.