Dark Ocean works with organizations across the U.S. Planning workshops, risk interviews, and many tabletop exercises run virtually, and on-site work such as site walks and in-person exercises can be arranged wherever you operate.
Concrete, written deliverables your team can use: a business continuity plan with clear roles, a ranked list of your top risks with owners, or an after-action report from a tested exercise with a prioritized improvement plan. Just as important, your leaders will have practiced the decisions they'd face on a bad day, which shortens downtime and gives you a stronger story for insurers, lenders, customers, and your board.
Yes. Site walks and in-person tabletop exercises are often the best fit for on-site work. Interviews, planning sessions, and many exercises work well virtually. We'll pick the mix that fits your schedule and budget.
Growing and mid-sized organizations where a few days of disruption would really hurt: manufacturers, logistics and port-dependent businesses, contractors, healthcare and outpatient providers, banks and credit unions, hospitality, utilities, and public entities. If you're a very small business looking for a basic template, your local Small Business Development Center offers free resources, and I'm happy to point you to them.
Yes. Book a free 20-minute risk conversation. We'll talk about what's worrying you and what you already have in place, and you'll leave with at least one practical next step. If there's a fit, I'll follow up with a short proposal with a fixed scope and fee.
Yes. Through fractional risk leadership on a monthly agreement, I keep your continuity, crisis, and risk programs current: regular exercises, plan updates, risk register reviews, leadership or board reporting, and advisory support when an incident happens. It gives you senior risk leadership without the cost of a full-time hire.
Yes. Safety and operational risk work is still available as a complementary service for enterprise risk clients, including site safety assessments, emergency response planning and drills, and safety program reviews. It's offered alongside continuity, crisis, and enterprise risk engagements so your operational and strategic risks are managed together.
A few common signs: your continuity plan is a document nobody has opened since it was written; an insurer, lender, or major customer has asked about your continuity plan; your leadership team has never practiced a ransomware attack or serious incident together; your board wants a clearer view of risk; or you've grown fast and the "who decides what" is fuzzy. If any of that sounds familiar, a 20-minute conversation is a good start.
You'll work directly with me, Brad Weger, founder of Dark Ocean. I'm a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, hold an MS and an MBA, and have more than 20 years of operational risk experience along with military command experience. Dark Ocean is a veteran-owned firm.
Yes, and most clients do. The Continuity Readiness Sprint, Leadership Crisis Tabletop, and Risk Posture Diagnostic are each fixed-scope engagements of a few weeks or less. From there, you can build a full business continuity or enterprise risk program, or move to ongoing fractional support, only if it makes sense.
No. Every plan and exercise starts with how your operation actually runs: your sites, suppliers, systems, and people. Templates are a starting point at most. The goal is a plan your team recognizes as theirs and can use under pressure.
The entry engagements typically run two to four weeks from kickoff to final report, scheduled around your operation. Full continuity or enterprise risk programs take longer and are scoped in phases.
