A bespoke tabletop from a crisis consultancy averages around thirty thousand dollars for a single afternoon. For comparable spend, a Force Majeure crisis exercise runs as a rerunnable program on your real footprint, refreshed quarterly and scored into a board-ready report.
A custom tabletop built by a consultancy averages around thirty thousand dollars, and roughly one in five buyers pays more than fifty thousand. That spend typically buys a single facilitated afternoon on a scenario written for the occasion. It is well-run work, and the advisers are good. The structure is the limit: when the day is over, the exercise is over, and a fast-moving risk picture has nowhere to go but stale.
Indicative Force Majeure pricing covers the same range and turns it into a program. A full bespoke exercise on your footprint is about thirty to fifty thousand dollars, and an annual readiness package with quarterly exercises, a standing scenario library, and a board briefing is about eighty to one hundred fifty thousand a year. The exercise is rerunnable, generated against your real sector and country footprint, scored on a published rubric, and written into a board-ready after-action report. It positions itself as the first simulation to score financial and cultural decisions together, the two skills that decide who survives a high-risk market. Pricing is indicative for scoping.
The headline number is similar on both sides, so the question is what sits behind it. A one-off bespoke tabletop concentrates the whole budget into a single event: discovery, a facilitated session, and a debrief, delivered once. Rerun it next year and you are paying close to full price again, because the deliverable was the afternoon, not an asset you keep.
A Force Majeure exercise spreads the same kind of budget across a program. The scenario set is built once on your footprint, then refreshed each quarter at low marginal cost, so the second run and the tenth cost far less than the first. The judgment inside it was pressure-tested in the hardest markets on earth and calibrated to a 2021 Harvard Business Review study by the founders, which found community-embedded firms were about three times more likely to stay profitable and nine times more likely to survive a crisis. That is what turns comparable spend into a standing capability rather than a one-time cost.
| What matters to a risk team | Force Majeure crisis exercise | One-off consultancy tabletop |
|---|---|---|
| Indicative cost | About $30k to $50k bespoke; $80k to $150k a year for a program | Averages around $30k; a fifth pay more than $50k |
| What it buys | A rerunnable program, refreshed quarterly | A single facilitated afternoon |
| Cost to rerun | Low marginal cost each quarter | Close to full price again |
| Scenario | Built on your real sector and country footprint | Custom for the day, then frozen |
| Output | Board-ready after-action report on a published rubric | A debrief and a deck |
| What you keep | A standing scenario library and a readiness record | The memory of one session |
Cost figures are indicative and reflect the productized supply we surveyed. Specific vendors and retainers differ; we are happy to map Force Majeure against whatever you run or budget for today.
An annual readiness package delivers quarterly exercises and a standing scenario library on your real footprint, so readiness is exercised on the cadence the risk actually moves.
Scenarios are generated against your real operating geography and calibrated to real data such as V-Dem and ACLED, rather than a script written for one occasion and shelved.
Every run is scored on a published rubric and written up as a board-ready after-action report, plus an annual board briefing a committee can report against.
Treat Force Majeure as an upgrade or a complement: it does not retire a trusted adviser, it gives the relationship a rerunnable exercise underneath it. We are glad to map the program against whatever consultancy or retainer you run today.
See the enterprise briefing →A custom one-off tabletop built by a crisis consultancy averages around thirty thousand dollars, and roughly a fifth of buyers pay more than fifty thousand. That buys a single facilitated afternoon. Indicative Force Majeure pricing for a full bespoke exercise is about thirty to fifty thousand dollars, and an annual readiness program with quarterly exercises is about eighty to one hundred fifty thousand a year. Pricing is indicative for scoping.
Instead of one facilitated afternoon, a rerunnable exercise on your real sector and country footprint, refreshed quarterly, scored on a published rubric, and written into a board-ready after-action report. The same budget buys a standing program rather than a single event.
It complements one. A consultancy retainer adds senior advisers and live incident support, which Force Majeure does not. Force Majeure supplies the rerunnable exercise itself: a footprint-specific, quarterly-refreshed program scored into a report. Many teams keep an adviser relationship and use Force Majeure as the standing exercise underneath it.
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