Critical-incident executive coachingFor responsible executives
Black Horizon Scenario.
One executive, alone, at a desk.
Twenty minutes, with a whole team.
No distractions.
Time to get a real feel for dealing with a crisis.
Compare that with the last mandatory table top?
Black Horizon is one such exercise
A support vessel with 412 people aboard is attacked offshore Qatar, and the chief executive answerable for her sits it alone, on his own laptop, with the office around him played by seven seats.
Type the orders.
They the Ai role-players answer from the company records / procedures.
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“Through experience we gain confidence, through confidence we gain competence.”
— Ian Simpson
Sit through the incident from the first report to the close out brief, this is the goal.
The full sitting was filmed: ten minutes, one executive, from the initial report to deep into the Demo situation.
Imagine
The very same scenario process built on your own companies, agreed data.
Black Horizon is ours.
The vessel is invented, the operator is invented, the contract is one we wrote. It does show you what an exercise can be.
It is not your incident, and we hope it never will be.
What is on offer is the same exercise built for your individual situation.
State-of-the-art AI processes now make it practical to take a company’s own material for example its vessels or its assets, its contracts, the positions in its crisis organisation, its own emergency procedures and turn that material into the written data rows an exercise runs from.
Your executives experience an incident involving their own vessel / asset.
With their own ai role players positions /team behind the answers.
How it is built
- 01The incident is written by someone who has held command in a real one.
The AI does not write it. - 02Every fact a role-player is able to give is extracted first from your data
- 03The AI is the grease between that data and a realistic knowledgable person answering.
- 04Your people sit it.
Alone, on their own laptops, over and over, in peace, at their own pace.
The mechanism
“Delivered Through Experience” is the company’s tagline. It is also the mechanism.
The executive sits the exercise, makes choices, sees the results, and gets mentored.
Completes the same exercise, makes better choices over time.
Sees the results, gains more mentoring, as a result more mental muscle memory forms.
Confidence comes from Experience.
& from Confidence,
comes Competence.
Who it is for
Senior executives who will one day suddenly be put on the spot.
The executives who have to deal with stressful decisions right there, right then.
They are on the hook, in today’s litigious, complex, everything on record, world.
Their reputations, the company’s finances and reputation, are all on the line
Its during those vital initial stages, that we coach you through.
In the aftermath, they are the people who have to…
Live with the decisions they made.
Endure the scrutiny of —
- Their Peers
- Their investors
- Their Insurers
- The Public authorities
- Prosecution, in the worst case.
What we propose
One person, alone, on their own laptop.
In their own comfort zone.
Zero pressure
The AI plays the office around them, the roles, the incoming events, and updates.
Lets make it personal
You are alone, and you really have time to think things through.
Time to make notes at your own pace.
Nothing is scored, until you are comfortable with the setup, and your performance.
For the first time we believe in crisis management training, you get the most valuable commodity in a crisis.
TIME!!
Play with it, become comfortable at your own pace.
You gain more insight, more mental muscle memory.
You will become more confident.
How an exercise runs
- 01 The phone goes; no preamble.
- 02 Something has happened That’s all it needs…
- 03 Seats, not people Every seat in the app is a role title, with no names and no photographs, no distractions.
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Typed orders
Orders are typed, so the exercise can be mentored.
No microphones, no simulated phone calls
We want the simplest interface.
It’s the decisions that matter We are coaching, not gaming. - 05 Over and over The same scenario is sat over and over, until you build that mental muscle memory. You learn from your mistakes. Errors are not impediments to our goals, but the raw material that allows for them. The scenario shape changes with your inputs, it realistically adapts to your inputs.
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The AI
The AI is the grease between the cogs of the machine.
This machine is not (for once) here to grind you up. Its function is to grease the wheels of your mind. To improve your processing.
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— Ian Simpson
Principals
Ian Simpson
Director · Modu Master / OIM
Over forty years in marine and offshore oil and gas — from commercial fisherman and deck officer to Offshore Installation Manager, Fleet Manager and General Manager.
Tankers, anchor handling, DP, DSV, FPSO, tanker transfer operations, construction barges, dry docking, construction projects, a fleet classification society changeover — and much more, worldwide.
Was involved in Post Piper Alpha N Sea disaster safety regime implementations. Prepared and delivered the first Safety Cases for my drilling company employer’s fleet, under the strict UK HSE regime that followed Piper Alpha.
Managerial
Operations Manager of an offshore fleet in Qatar, 2001–04, keeping it operating and in class through a corporate debt collapse involving many creditor banks; under mandate from the Emir of Qatar. Joined the team that sold assets and salvaged the enterprise from bankruptcy.
Set up and ran a senior offshore staff training facility department in Doha, 2006–07, installing its offshore control-room simulators, and commissioned the same facilities in Dubai, which I managed for a large international safety organisation.
General Manager of Millennium Offshore Services, 2007–10. Invited to set up the company operations, to grow from three jack-up accommodation units to a six unit fleet; the company later became Seafox in 2014.
Managing Director of ISS FZE, Ajman, 2010–15, major-emergency and crisis-management consultant across the Gulf, formally assessing Offshore Installation Managers and board-level executives in complex offshore and onshore crisis scenarios.
2015 to 2024, travelled extensively, always learning.
2024 to present
ProEquipAI Ltd, Scottish Company.
AI based technology, created with AI by an industry veteran.
All that experience into code, into coaching apps for the industry.
Here for you now.
Gala Simpson
Marketing
Gala brings nearly two decades of marketing leadership across production, services and IT.
Owner-director of an e-commerce company in Kyiv, 2012–15. Deputy director of a Kyiv theatre, 2015–19, and a producer of cultural projects.