What is the Terrain 9 Interactive Lab?
For years, the toolkits, frameworks, and training modules we build here at Terrain 9 have lived exclusively inside client engagements. Our travel risk scenario generator developed for tabletop exercises, our risk matrix built for a field security program operating in conflict zones, our decision-support framework designed to help a board navigate extortion in a hostile environment – all highly effective and engaging solutions previously inaccessible without a major programmatic engagement.
That meant that a lot of the teams who could benefit the most from these tools never got to see them. So we decided to change that.
The Terrain 9 Interactive Lab is a free collection of tools for travel risk management, field security, and compliance, meant to assist in planning, training, and decisionmaking. Each tool is fully functional as is, so you can go ahead and start using them for real work: exercise facilitation, threat assessment, scenario drafting, or simply to stress-test your approach to a specific problem.
What’s Available for Free in the Lab
Travel Risk Management Exercise Scenario GeneratorÂ
Produces a travel risk management exercise scenario on demand. Each generation pairs a base incident, such as a credible threat, a medical emergency, or civil unrest, with a complicating inject that adds the kind of second-order pressure that exposes gaps in any TRM program. Hit Reveal Action Plan when your team is ready to debrief and a structured facilitator action plan appears together with debrief questions. The full version we deploy with clients contains over 1,000 scenario combinations customized to each client’s needs and profile, while our Lab version gives you a sample of this material. Print to PDF available.
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Security Risk Management Canvas
A structured canvas for building a complete situational picture in conflict zones and complex environments on a single pane of glass, organised around five panels: threats, assets at risk, the actor landscape, legal and regulatory concerns, and available resources. The Canvas can be used for mission planning, crisis management, wargaming, or debrief. Click the tags that apply to your context, add notes, and print. The Canvas is intended to force the kind of systematic thinking other briefing formats rarely produce.Â
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Location Risk Matrix
Plots threats to travelers dynamically across four quadrants defined by frequency and severity. Score each threat for your specific destination and watch your threat picture take shape in real time. The quadrant in which a threat lands – high frequency / high severity, low frequency / high severity, and so on – directly informs where to focus preventative measures, avoidance planning, and awareness programming. Export to PDF or CSV.
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Security Arrangement Evaluation Tree
Seven questions designed to help decision-makers evaluate potentially problematic security arrangements in conflict zones, whether it be facilitation payments, demarcation agreements, and similar situations where the line between pragmatic security management and legal exposure is genuinely unclear. The tool flags legal, reputational, and operational risk at each step, drawing on case law from prosecutions including Lafarge and Chiquita. The output is a documented assessment that can be escalated to senior management.
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Interactive Model of a Security Dilemma
An interactive timeline that maps the progression from conflict onset to crisis, showing how the decision window narrows with each stage, specifically with each payment made to an armed group. Built for high-level crisis planning, field security management, and anti-corruption compliance training. Each stage is clickable to explore the options still available, the options that have closed, and the legal exposure accumulated to that point.
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What’s Coming up
We’re in the final stages of adding demo versions of our HavenIQ interactive training modules to the lab. HavenIQ covers travel risk management, field security, and compliance topics through immersive scenario-based learning; those of you who’ve seen the modules at recent industry events have loved them, and we’re excited to share them more widely.
We’re also opening a shop with full deployable versions of these tools and more, including a crisis management exercise toolkit, a GSOC planning and scheduling platform, and a travel risk audit solution. These are plug & play kits built for organisations that want to run serious programs without the overhead of a full custom build engagement.
Why We’re Doing This
Small and mid-sized organisations often carry real duty of care exposure and genuine operational risk, but don’t have the resources for major programs. These organisations in particular have been making do with inadequate tools for years. Everything in the Lab is free because we think the field is better when good frameworks are accessible to more practitioners, not gatekept behind consulting fees.Â
Come and have a look. If something is useful, we’d genuinely love to hear from you. If you need something tailored to your team, please reach out!
