The Emergency Readiness Index is an 8-minute diagnostic that measures how your executive team actually makes decisions when systems fail — not just how good your technical controls look on a scorecard.
In under 10 minutes, you’ll see whether your organization tends to be Crisis-Prone, Fragile, Exposed, or Stable when it matters most.
8 minutes • Free • No follow-up unless you request it
25 behavior-based questions reveal how your leadership team detects weak signals, decides under pressure, contains damage, and restores trust when critical systems fail.
You’ll get a concise score, a clear band, a breakdown across five dimensions, and a short explanation of what Jeff would say to you in a first call — without having to book one.
Most security assessments tell you about technical controls — firewalls, backups, patches, compliance. Those matter, but they don’t determine what happens in the first 2–24 hours of a serious incident.
The Emergency Readiness Index focuses on your executive decision system under pressure: who sees what, when, and how decisions get made when your normal operating assumptions disappear.
Instead of checking boxes, it looks at the behaviors, patterns, and handoffs that either contain damage quickly or quietly turn incidents into full-blown organizational crises.
The Index scores your organization across five dimensions that determine how crises actually unfold:
How early weak signals from your systems, people, and customers show up at the executive level — and whether anyone is authorized to treat them as real.
Who is actually empowered to decide when critical systems are degraded, what gets shut down, and what trade-offs you’re willing to make in the moment.
How quickly you can limit the blast radius — technically and organizationally — before the incident spills into customers, regulators, or the news cycle.
How confident your leadership team is — based on evidence, not optimism — that you can restore critical operations and credibility in an acceptable timeframe.
How your executives think, communicate, and choose trade-offs when time is short, facts are incomplete, and stakeholders are demanding answers.
At the end of the 8-minute assessment, you’ll receive a concise, executive-level readout you can share with your team:
A single Emergency Readiness Index score with a clear band:
You’ll see how you score across the five dimensions — Signal Detection, Decision Authority, System Containment, Recovery Confidence, and Judgment Under Pressure — and which ones are driving your band.
A short interpretation of your pattern in plain language: how incidents are likely to unfold in your organization today — and what that means for your customers, your board, and your leadership team.
You’ll also see a brief note summarizing what Jeff Brodie would focus on if you did decide to book a call — so you can get the value of that first conversation without any scheduling or sales pressure.
The Emergency Readiness Index is built for senior executives who own organizational risk — not IT managers running tools and tickets.
If you’re responsible for how your organization shows up to customers, regulators, and the market when things go wrong, this diagnostic is for you.
A fast, behavior-based diagnostic designed to fit between meetings — and still change how you think about incidents.
You’ll respond to 25 behavior-based questions about how your organization actually behaves before, during, and after incidents — not how you wish it worked on paper.
Immediately see your Emergency Readiness Index score, band (Crisis-Prone, Fragile, Exposed, or Stable), and your scores across the five dimensions.
Read a short, plain-language explanation of what your scores say about how your organization is likely to behave in a high-pressure incident.
Use the results to decide whether you want to keep the Index as a one-time snapshot, discuss it with your team, or have a conversation with Jeff about designing a more resilient decision system.
Logistics: The assessment takes about 8 minutes to complete, is entirely free, and there is no follow-up unless you explicitly request a conversation.
To be clear on expectations, the Emergency Readiness Index is not a technical or compliance exercise. It’s an executive lens on how your organization behaves when normal systems fail.
If you’re looking for a box-ticking security report for an auditor, this is the wrong tool. If you want to know how your organization will actually make decisions when the lights flicker, it’s the right one.
The Index was developed by Jeff Brodie, CEO of CodeFusion Communications, based on three decades of responding to real incidents with leadership teams across industries.
Over hundreds of investigations and crisis calls, Jeff kept seeing the same pattern: organizations with similar technical issues had radically different outcomes — not because of their tools, but because of how they made decisions under pressure.
The key insight behind the Emergency Readiness Index is simple: designed decision systems prevent organizational crises. When it’s clear who sees what, who decides, and how information moves, even serious incidents can be contained and recovered from without turning into reputational events.
The Index is Jeff’s way of giving executive teams a fast, structured way to see where their current habits support that kind of resilience — and where they don’t — before the next incident forces the issue.
Jeff is the CEO of CodeFusion Communications and has spent over 30 years helping organizations navigate outages, breaches, and high-pressure operational failures.
He works directly with CEOs, COOs, CTOs, and boards to design decision systems that keep incidents from turning into headlines — and that’s the lens embedded in this diagnostic.
Take 8 minutes now to get a clear, executive-level view of your Emergency Readiness Index — before the next incident forces you to find out the hard way.
Time required: 8 minutes • Cost: Free • Follow-up: Only if you request it
You’ll receive your score, band, dimension breakdown, and a short summary of what Jeff would focus on with you in a first call — with no obligation to book one.