Crisis Lab

What Crisis Lab does

Crisis Lab operates as an intelligence and education platform serving senior crisis management practitioners across NATO, EU, UN, and national agencies. The company distributes twice-monthly analytical briefs that interpret structural vulnerabilities in civilian crisis management rather than competing on raw data volume, with accompanying audio editions, toolkits, real-time situational alerts, and podcast content. The product portfolio spans three subscription tiers (Intelligence at $149.95/month, Intelligence+ at $649/month with capped senior roundtables and advisory access, and an announced $2,997 Executive Program built on a 40-hour NATO Resilience Reference Curriculum), supported by IACET-accredited courses and The Forum peer engagement program for senior professionals. The business is the intelligence and education arm of Capacity Building International, a 30-year international consultancy alongside NATO, EU, and UN bodies; Crisis Lab leverages this lineage as its core talent and content moat. Go-to-market is content-led: a free bi-weekly newsletter to 57,000+ senior professionals, supported by thought leadership articles and podcast distribution, funnels readers into paid self-serve subscriptions on the crisislab.io platform. Distribution is direct and digital-only, with no channel partners or reseller network; partnerships (NATO EADRCC, NATO JATEC, LAPAS Latvia) function as credibility and field engagement vehicles rather than distribution channels.

Name

Crisis Lab

Legal name

Crisis Lab

Website

https://crisislab.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Crisis Lab is a subscription intelligence and education platform delivering twice-monthly analytical briefs, accredited courses, and peer programs on civilian crisis management to senior practitioners across NATO, EU, and UN-aligned agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crisis Management Education & Intelligence

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

SIC

Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Emergency Management, Disaster Response & Incident Command Training (EDAOAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Business Continuity, Crisis Management & Resilience Planning (BPAKADAI)

Keywords

• Crisis management training
• Disaster response intelligence
• Resilience education
• Emergency management courses
• Humanitarian operations training

Headquarters

HQ city

Sheridan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Intelligence Subscription: Bi-weekly intelligence brief with audio edition and toolkit delivered via subscription. Tiered pricing from $149.95/month (Individual Intelligence) to $649/month (Intelligence+ with senior roundtable access). Revenue is recurring subscription-based with monthly and annual billing implied by tier structure.
2. Executive Program: One-time $2,997 cohort-based 12-week executive program for senior leaders, built on the 40-hour NATO Resilience Reference Curriculum. This is a premium one-time fee for structured cohort-based education.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Crisis Lab delivers crisis management and resilience intelligence, accredited training courses, an executive program, a professional podcast, and a peer forum to senior practitioners in defense, humanitarian, and emergency management. Its offerings blend subscription-based analysis (Intelligence and Intelligence+) with one-time executive tuition and IACET-accredited continuing education, targeting frontline responders, defense and military planners, and senior crisis management professionals.

Product overview

Crisis Lab is an intelligence and education platform for crisis management practitioners, built on Capacity Building International's 30 years of field work alongside NATO, EU, UN, and national agencies. The portfolio consists of the core Intelligence subscription (with Intelligence+ premium tier and an upcoming Executive Program), IACET-accredited Courses, the Crisis Lab Podcast content series, and The Forum peer program for senior leaders. The intelligence product focuses on analytical depth over data volume, delivering twice-monthly structural vulnerability assessments with toolkits rather than raw alerts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• LAPAS (Latvia)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Partnership with LAPAS on municipal civil protection and local resilience. Crisis Lab works alongside LAPAS on the load-bearing-civilian work, building the local-resilience capacity that carries the weight when national systems are stretched.
• NATOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLed the first resilience-integration working group at NATO's Lessons Identified Conference (Sofia, Feb 2026). The only NGO invited to lead a NATO working group. Conducted workshop translating Ukraine's wartime continuity-of-services experience into Allied resilience planning at NATO JATEC (Warsaw, Jan 2026).
• Capacity Building InternationalcoreOthersCrisis Lab is the intelligence and education arm of Capacity Building International. The 30-year international consultancy track record of Capacity Building International is applied through Crisis Lab to provide advisory services to governments, security councils, and international organizations.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Everbridge: Critical event management platform providing mass notification, crisis communication, and resilience software to enterprises and governments. Comparable in crisis management customer base but broader software platform versus Crisis Lab's intelligence subscription model.
• FEMA Emergency Management Institute: Government-run emergency management training institution offering free courses to emergency managers. Comparable in emergency management training curriculum and FEMA practitioner audience overlap.

Direct peers

• Stratfor (The Economist Intelligence): Geopolitical and security intelligence subscription service providing analytical depth to enterprise and government subscribers. Comparable to Crisis Lab in subscription-based intelligence delivery model and focus on security/defense decision-makers.
• Control Risks: Global risk consultancy providing political, security, and integrity risk analysis to multinational corporations and governments. Comparable in advisory access model and government/international organization clientele.
• Janes: Defense and security intelligence subscription service delivering open-source intelligence and analysis to government and defense professionals. Comparable in target audience (NATO and defense planners) and analytical subscription model.
• RANE (Risk and Network Analysis): Risk intelligence subscription providing forward-looking analysis on geopolitical and security threats to enterprise subscribers. Comparable in subscription intelligence model and focus on senior decision-makers managing complex risks.
• TEEX (Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service): Major emergency management training provider offering courses for first responders and emergency managers across the U.S. Comparable in emergency management curriculum delivery and target audience of frontline crisis professionals.

Emerging players

• Resilience Shift: Resilience-focused organization providing research and training for critical infrastructure operators and emergency managers. Comparable in resilience training curriculum and focus on structural vulnerability analysis.
• Crisis Response Journal: Publication and training provider serving emergency management and crisis response professionals globally. Comparable in editorial focus on crisis management practitioner audience and educational programming.
• CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies): Think tank producing defense and security analysis with subscription newsletter offerings targeting policy and defense professionals. Comparable in analytical depth positioning and audience overlap with NATO/EU policy community.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thecrisislab
• Facebookfacebook.com/thecrisislab
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/thecrisislab

Compliance1 record

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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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