Suprata Exercise

Overview

What Suprata Exercise does

Suprata Exercise is a platform for tabletop exercises, crisis simulations and teaching games. Designers build a scenario in plain forms with no programming: the people and groups involved, teams and roles, goals, a timeline of turns, a map, the decisions each team must make, and the rules that decide what happens next. Scenarios are versioned, can be copied, and can be exported.

During a run, several teams play at the same time and each person sees only what their team, role and access level allow. A control team runs the clock, sends new information, changes the situation, moves the story down a different path, and settles each outcome by rules, dice or human judgment. Every message, decision and change is time-stamped, so afterward you can replay the exercise turn by turn, compare teams and compare different groups who played the same scenario, print an after-action report, and download the data as spreadsheets.

Who it’s for

Built for organizations like yours

Exercise fits a wide range of organizations. Hundreds of organizations already run their work on the Suprata platform.

Emergency management offices running disaster and continuity drills
Cities, counties and towns practicing storm, flood, outage and public-safety response
Utilities (water, power, gas) practicing cyber attack and service outage response
Police, fire and EMS agencies and regional dispatch centers
Hospitals, clinics and public health departments practicing surge and outbreak plans
School districts practicing campus safety and crisis communication
Colleges and universities teaching crisis decision-making, policy, business and security courses
Military academies, war colleges and officer training programs
Courts and justice agencies practicing continuity of operations
State agencies and regional councils running multi-agency exercises
Corporate risk, security and business-continuity teams
IT and security teams running incident response tabletop exercises
Banks, credit unions and insurers practicing crisis and fraud response
Consulting and training firms that design and run exercises for clients
Nonprofits and humanitarian groups practicing disaster relief coordination
Ports, marinas, airports and transit operators practicing security and weather events
Think tanks and research groups studying decisions with repeatable simulations

Features

Everything Exercise can do

66 capabilities in 5 areas. Every one of them can be shaped to your rules.

Scenario building (no programming)

Scenario library with search by status: published, draft and archived
Create a new scenario from a blank start or a two-sided starter with two teams and a control team
Duplicate any scenario; the copy records where it came from
Every change bumps the version and is listed in a version history
Overview: title, summary, setting, purpose, tags, number of turns, turn label (move, phase, day), minutes per turn and game time per turn
Actors: countries, groups, institutions or media, each with a type, description and which team plays it
Teams with a name, color and type (player team or control team)
Roles on each team with a description, authorities and an information access level (standard, leadership, control only)
Per-role permissions: submit team decisions, post in the team room, post in liaison channels, issue public statements, ask the control team questions
Communication channels with who can read them, a minimum access level and who may post
Team objectives that are scored automatically from the game state against a target
Team resources with quantity, unit and notes
Timeline of turns, each with a title, game time and a situation brief sent at the start of the turn
Planned injects (new information) scheduled by turn, with audience, access level and attributed source
Map with markers, regions and routes; click the map to place a feature
Map features can belong to a team, be visible only to some teams, and appear from a given turn
Decision points: a question put to a team in a given turn with lettered options
Branch tree of story paths, each with a parent, starting turn, condition and end-state flag
Game-state variables (for example support, escalation, traffic) with start, minimum, maximum, who can see them and whether higher is better
Probability tables using 1d6, 2d6, 1d10, 1d20 or percentile dice, with outcome, effects and branch per row
Test roll button to try a probability table
Rules: when a team picks an option (optionally combined with another team's choice or a state threshold), apply effects, roll on a table, and move to a branch
Each rule chooses automated, combined (proposed then confirmed) or human judgment
Built-in checks on effects so a rule cannot reference a variable that does not exist
Publish or archive a scenario; export a scenario as a JSON file
Sample scenarios: a maritime crisis, a hurricane relief coordination game and a water utility ransomware decision game

Running an exercise

Launch an exercise from a published scenario with a name, run label, group or cohort, minutes per turn and start time
Assign each person to a team role at launch; several exercises can run at the same time
Turn clock with pause, resume, extend and start the next turn
Situation briefs and planned injects go out automatically at the start of each turn
Team view: the situation, the team's decision, information received, team brief, the game state the team may see, the map and its channels
Only roles allowed to decide can submit the team decision, with a written rationale; time taken to decide is recorded
Team rooms, leadership-only channel, cross-team liaison channels, a hotline, public statements and a control net
Requests for information from teams to the control team, answered in the exercise
Live activity feed that refreshes on its own
Every item is filtered by team, role and access level, including map layers and state variables
Seat perspectives page shows the same moment from six seats side by side

Control team and adjudication

Control team view with decisions waiting, the full activity feed and every control form on one screen
Deliver an unplanned inject to chosen teams at a chosen access level
Change the game state by hand with a reason; the change is logged
Automated outcomes: rules and dice applied the moment a team decides
Combined outcomes: the system proposes a result with the dice roll and table row; the umpire confirms or overrides
Human outcomes: the umpire decides directly with a required rationale
Choose which teams receive each outcome
Move the story to another branch, or create a new branch during play
End the exercise and record the outcome
Observers can flag significant moments and write notes without any controls

Record, review and export

Time-stamped activity log of every inject, decision, message, intervention and game-state change
Filter the log by type, team and turn
After-action review: replay a finished exercise turn by turn with state, map, events and branch at each turn
Game state over time charts
Significant decision points: flags, overrides, large swings and branch changes
Team comparison and every decision with how it was settled
Compare runs of the same scenario side by side: decisions, game state and branch paths, with patterns found in the data
Printable after-action report (print or save as PDF)
Downloads: activity log, decisions and game state as CSV, the full exercise as JSON or Excel, and run comparisons as CSV
Participant codes can replace names in research data sets

Administration, help and support

Users and roles with five platform roles: administrator, exercise designer, control team member, observer, participant
Permissions matrix by platform role
Invite a user (invitation goes to the mailbox) and change a person's role
Audit log of platform changes, exports and sign-ins, downloadable as CSV
Security and data page: access control, data handled, protection and retention
Onboarding guide by role and a help center with short articles for each role
Support requests with category and priority, response-time table and escalation path
"Viewing as" switch to try any seat; each browser has a private copy that can be reset
Works on phones and desktops; checked for accessibility

Screens

See Exercise at work

Real screens from the working copy, filled with made-up sample data. Click any screen to enlarge it.

How it fits

One platform underneath

Suprata is a versatile workflow and business intelligence platform that delivers the power of custom software with ease and affordability. Exercise is built on it, so it shares the same engine, records and controls.

Workflow & automation

Approvals, work queues, reminders and rules move every Exercise request forward without anyone chasing it.

Business intelligence

Live dashboards for every role and custom reports built from your Exercise data, with an AI report builder.

Customer portal

The people you serve sign in to apply, book, pay, upload documents and check status, day or night.

Payments & billing

When Exercise takes money, card and bank payments, invoices and refunds land in one ledger.

Integrations & API

A documented API, webhooks and exports connect Exercise to the systems you already run.

Live

Click around a working copy

The working copy of Exercise is filled with realistic, made-up data. There is no sign-up and no password. Pick a role and explore. Your changes stay in your own copy.

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Pricing

Ask about pricing for Exercise

Every organization is different, so we price Exercise around your size and needs. Tell us what you run and we’ll come back with a clear number.

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