Ready Northwest

What Ready Northwest does

Ready Northwest is a Beaverton, Oregon-based emergency management consulting firm founded in 2015 by Edward Colson, a commercial helicopter pilot turned emergency management professional with a degree in the field and over a decade of healthcare and business emergency management experience. The company delivers emergency preparedness, response, and recovery services to organizations of all sizes, with a visible concentration in the healthcare vertical evidenced by named customers including CCHC, SCA Health, and Tillamook County Community Health Centers.

The company's core offering is the Resilience 360 program, an Emergency Management as a Service (EMaaS) framework delivered through three annual subscription tiers: Level 1 (On-Demand access to a designated emergency management professional plus monthly newsletter), Level 2 (twelve months of strategic guidance, quarterly presentations, annual exercises, and ongoing technical support), and Level 3 (a full-service emergency management department replacement including on-site or virtual activation support, crisis communications, and in-house team development). Complementary à la carte services include Emergency Planning, Tabletop Exercises, and Training & Education covering topics such as active shooter and wildfire response.

Ready Northwest runs a sales-led, direct-engagement go-to-market through its website, where prospective clients request custom quotes via contact and partnership inquiry forms. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; all tiers are billed annually on a subscription basis. The firm operates with a 1-10 person team and self-positions as one of the fastest growing emergency management consulting firms in its category, though no revenue, funding, or growth metrics are disclosed.

Name

Ready Northwest

Website

https://readynorthwest.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Ready Northwest is a Beaverton, Oregon-based emergency management consulting firm that provides Emergency Management as a Service (Resilience 360), along with planning, tabletop exercises, and training, primarily to healthcare organizations and businesses lacking dedicated emergency managers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Management Consulting

NAICS

Business Support Services (5614), Facilities Support Services (561210), All Other Business Support Services (561499)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741), Services-Help Supply Services (7363)

akta.pro primary industry

Emergency Response, Spill Prevention & Crisis Preparedness (BPAHAJAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Emergency Preparedness Planning & Readiness (HLAJAGAA), Emergency Management & Disaster Response (EOC, Civil Defense) (BPAIAGAE)

Keywords

• Emergency management consulting
• Emergency operations planning
• Business continuity services
• Crisis management training
• Emergency preparedness services

Headquarters

HQ city

Beaverton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Emergency Management as a Service (EMaaS): Subscription-based emergency management consulting services delivered through a tiered membership model. Services range from on-demand access to emergency management professionals (Level 1) to comprehensive in-house emergency management department development (Level 3). Revenue is generated through recurring service fees for ongoing support, planning, training, and preparedness services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Ready Northwest provides Emergency Management as a Service (EMaaS) through its Resilience 360 program, offering tiered consulting engagements that range from on-demand access to a designated emergency management professional (Level 1), to 12-month strategic planning with exercises (Level 2), to full-service provider-level emergency management department support (Level 3). The firm also delivers standalone Emergency Planning, Tabletop Exercises, and Training & Education services to organizations that lack dedicated in-house emergency management staff.

Product overview

Ready Northwest offers a unified Emergency Management as a Service (EMaaS) platform built around the Resilience 360 program, which provides organizations with flexible, tiered emergency management solutions. The portfolio consists of the core Resilience 360 platform supplemented by three service levels (On-Demand, Support, and Provider) and standalone services including Emergency Planning, Tabletop Exercises, and Training & Education. Organizations can access everything from a single designated emergency manager to complete in-house emergency management department capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Resilience 360 Program Emergency Management as a Service (EMaaS) program providing on-demand emergency management support for organizations, ranging from advisory access to a designated emergency management professional to comprehensive in-house emergency management department capabilities. Delivered through tiered subscription levels (Level 1 On-Demand, Level 2 Support, Level 3 Provider) covering strategic planning, exercises, training, technical assistance, and crisis communications.
• Emergency Planning Development and maintenance of emergency operations plans, emergency response plans, and business continuity plans, with annual update options. Targeted at organizations needing customized emergency preparedness documentation and ongoing plan maintenance.
• Tabletop Exercises Planning and facilitation of scenario-based tabletop exercises to test organizational emergency response, including after-action reports. Designed for organizations seeking to validate their emergency plans and train incident management teams.
• Training & Education Emergency preparedness presentations covering topics including active shooter response and wildfire response. Designed for organizations and teams that need targeted training to improve preparedness and awareness.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Everbridge: Critical event management and mass notification software provider serving enterprises and government. Adjacent to Ready Northwest in emergency preparedness workflow but delivers technology (notifications, incident management) rather than consulting services.
• BOLDplanning: SaaS-based emergency operations plan and continuity planning platform serving schools, healthcare, and government. Comparable to Ready Northwest in target use cases (EOP development, continuity planning) but delivers value through software rather than consulting services.

Direct peers

• Agility Recovery: Subscription-based business continuity and disaster preparedness provider offering on-demand advisory and recovery services. Highly comparable go-to-market model to Ready Northwest's EMaaS subscription tiers, with similar target customer profile of mid-sized organizations needing outsourced preparedness expertise.
• Hagerty Consulting: Emergency management and disaster recovery consulting firm serving government and private sector clients. Closely comparable service portfolio (planning, training, exercises, response support) and similar positioning as a dedicated emergency management specialist.
• Witt O'Brien's (subsidiary of RGP): One of the largest dedicated emergency management and disaster recovery consulting firms in the U.S. Directly comparable to Ready Northwest in core service offering (emergency planning, training, exercises, program development) but operates at significantly larger scale with global enterprise clients.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with emergency management and disaster recovery capabilities supporting government and private sector clients. Comparable in emergency planning and program development but with substantially broader service portfolio and scale.
• Tetra Tech: Global consulting and engineering firm with environmental, health, and safety (EHS) consulting capabilities including emergency response planning. Comparable at the service-line level but operates as a diversified incumbent serving water, energy, and government clients.
• ICF International: Large professional services firm with a dedicated emergency management and homeland security practice serving federal, state, and healthcare clients. Comparable in emergency preparedness consulting capability but operates as a broad incumbent with significantly larger scale and government contracting depth.
• Kroll (Resolver): Risk and resilience consulting firm offering emergency management, business continuity, and crisis management services. Comparable in preparedness and response advisory, but Kroll operates at much larger scale with broader risk consulting capabilities.

Regional players

• All Hands Fire Equipment & Training: Regional emergency preparedness training and equipment provider offering active shooter, CPR/first aid, and emergency response training to businesses. Comparable in training delivery (tabletop exercises, emergency preparedness presentations) but with stronger equipment distribution and regional focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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