Why We’re Changing the Watch Office Service
When we launched the Watch Office service in March, our goal was clear: give Academy subscribers proactive, forward-looking intelligence about the threats and hazards that could impact them. Since then, we’ve been encouraged and humbled by how many of you chose to make this part of your situational awareness processes. Your response has validated the need for timely, relevant, and actionable information.
Over the past few months, we’ve steadily expanded the number of cities and regions covered each week. But our mission has never been about producing the most reports. Our mission is to help every organization get and stay left of bang.
That means equipping people with the capabilities, resources, and processes to spot threats early and act decisively before they become crises. While AI has been a force multiplier in that pursuit, we recognized early that there’s a natural limit to how far we can scale customized reporting without sacrificing the quality and standards that define our work. Simply adding more reports wasn’t going to get us closer to our mission or serve the professionals who trust us to support them in getting left of bang. Today, we believe that making the process replicable, so more organizations can run their own watch office, will.
That’s why this week we decided to change the way we offer the Watch Office service.
In the coming weeks, Academy subscribers will gain access to the exact prompts and processes we use to develop each report, enabling them to build this capability themselves and tailor it to their unique needs.
The U.S. and Colorado Front Range reports will now be available to all subscribers. Learn how to sign up here so you can start receiving them each week.
The lessons we learn from producing the U.S. and Colorado reports will be incorporated into our Operational Readiness Playbook, which will soon include a section on establishing a Watch Office. This will cover the prompts, lessons learned, and key considerations for any organization ready to take ownership of its own intelligence capability.
The opportunities that AI brings to threat and hazard monitoring are incredible and still evolving. We believe that by sharing not just reports, but the methods behind them, we can help far more organizations implement a left of bang strategy customized to their needs.
To the early Watch Office subscribers: thank you for being part of this journey. Your trust, feedback, and engagement have shaped this service from day one. We’re excited to take this next step with you, one that keeps us all moving toward the same goal: building self-sufficient organizations ready to anticipate and act before a crisis hits.