Capital Shield is a decision readiness company. We build technology that enables organisations to rehearse complex crises and high-consequence situations before they happen; testing plans, exercising critical decisions and revealing how people, systems and organisations perform under pressure.
Our Foresight platform brings the principles of mission rehearsal into the modern organisation, transforming traditional tabletop exercises into dynamic, data-rich simulations where leaders and teams can confront uncertainty, make consequential decisions and learn without real-world consequences.
By turning every simulation into actionable decision intelligence, Capital Shield helps governments, businesses and institutions build, measure and continuously improve their readiness for the moments that matter
Capital Shield supports:
Professional military education;
Leadership development;
Training for commanders, officers, and headquarters at every echelon;
Low-cost, high-frequency exercises between major collective training events;
Information environment, disinformation and strategic communication training; and
Measurable assessment data to support after action review and readiness reporting.
FORESIGHT: AN AI-NATIVE CRISIS SIMULATION PLATFORM
Our platform lets an organisation exercise more often, at a fraction of the cost, and produce evidence of decision performance that can be tracked over time.
Foresight has six key components:
Simulation Environment. A synthetic information environment that can be adapted to reflect the decision-making environment with email, phone calls, social media, news media and open source reporting.
AI Scenario Editor. Build or adapt a complex scenario in hours rather than weeks or months.
Agentic AI Actors. Autonomous role players, each with their own goals, biases, doctrine, resource constrains, and personality. Removing the need for large white cell teams.
Exercise Control Dashboard. Live orchestration to escalate, steer or branch the scenario while it runs.
Hindsight Analytics. Structured post-exercise data on decision quality, timeliness, coordination and capability gaps.
Secure Architecture. Suitable for sovereign, classified, proprietary, multilingual and international deployments.
Hindsight. Decision analytics configured to the customer’s own doctrine, assessment, and capability frameworks.
Scenario design, exercise control and facilitation services for major or complex exercises.
Micro-simulations. Short single-player or small-team decision repetitions for individual skill sustainment between full exercises.
Capital Shield is:
Better. The scenario reacts. Much more dynamic and adaptive participant experience. Adversary and stakeholder actors pursue their own objectives, so participants face consequences rather than a scripted list of injects.
Faster. A scenario is built or adapted in hours, not weeks or months. A first pilot exercise can be built in one week from signature.
Cheaper. Agentic AI role players replace most of the white cell and role player staff, which is where the cost of a realistic exercise sits. Reduction in design hours through AI scenario editor makes it simpler and cheaper to build an exercise.
Smarter. Every run generates structured decision data, so individual and team performance can be benchmarked across runs, teams, and units rather than debriefed on opinion.
Accessible. Browser-based on standard laptops, delivered in person, remotely or hybrid. No specialist simulation operator required.
Owned by the customer. Scenarios the customer builds are the customer’s, retained as a reusable library. Sovereign and dedicated hosting are available.
Foresight is, to our knowledge, the only platform that combines an AI scenario editor, autonomous AI role players and decision analytics in a single environment, and is deliberately built so any organisation can design and run the exercises. We sell a capability the customer operates, not a service they buy back every year.
Capital Shield has delivered paid exercises for government departments, defence training establishments, universities, and corporations in Australia, Japan, and Europe. Technology readiness is equivalent to level 9 for the delivered use cases. Continuous development is included in every license at no additional cost.
We are establishing US market presence in FY27 and we are actively seeking partners. We are already working with partners who are certified to design and deliver Foresight exercises under their own brand, with a white label option at enterprise tier and an origination share on enterprise conversions.
We currently serve:
Government departments and agencies with national crisis coordination responsibilities, including cross-agency training at officials level.
Professional military education and defence academic institutions across three continents.
Emergency management organisations responsible for incident leadership and consequence management.
Critical infrastructure operators subject to regulated preparedness and exercising obligations.
Specialist risk and resilience consultancies delivering exercises to their own clients on our platform.
Across these engagements: more than 1400 personnel trained, 100% contract renewal, and 98% participant satisfaction.