FROM SIGNAL TO DECISION.
SeverityIQ™ cuts through the first 20 minutes of uncertainty — in cyber incident response and beyond — by turning urgent signals into authorized decision paths. It identifies the named decision authority, shows the scope and limits of that authority, makes the escalation criteria clear, and creates a time-stamped record of what happened.
Built for the moment after the signal arrives and before the response plan takes over, when somebody still has to decide what happens next.
The Problem
Detection is fast. Authorized action often is not.
01
The Signal Arrives
A cyber alert, operational anomaly, safety concern, regulatory trigger, AI incident, or fast-moving reputational issue surfaces.
02
The Decision Stalls
Teams know something needs attention, but the next authorized decision is unclear, the right decision-maker may be unavailable, or nobody wants to overstep their authority.
03
Delay Becomes Risk
Minutes disappear while people search for sign-off, chase the right executive, or debate who can authorize what. The situation keeps moving while decision authority stands still.
Signal → Assess → Activate Authority → Decide → Record.
SeverityIQ™ closes the gap between knowing something matters and getting the right authorized decision moving before the situation outruns the organization.
What Changes
Less scrambling. More control.
A clear decision path from the first signal.
01
Know Who Can Decide
Each issue is matched to the named decision authority and designated backup, with the scope of authority, applicable limits, and escalation criteria already defined.
02
Move Faster
The right decision-maker is activated automatically, reducing the time lost to searching, forwarding, chasing approvals, and guessing who is authorized to act.
03
Escalate Without Guesswork
If action stalls, severity increases, or the decision exceeds the current authority level, SeverityIQ™ makes the defined escalation path clear.
04
Keep the Record
Every notification, authorization, escalation, and decision is time-stamped so you do not have to reconstruct the story later.
How SeverityIQ™ Works
01
Signal Logged
An event is captured with the context needed to assess what is happening and what is at stake.
02
Severity Assessed
AI-assisted severity assessment against your defined criteria, so early triage does not depend on who happens to be on shift. Your team can always review or reclassify.
03
Decision Authority Activated
SeverityIQ™ identifies and activates the named decision authority for that issue and severity level, with the scope of authority, applicable limits, escalation criteria, and policy reference surfaced at the point of action.
04
Decision Recorded
Who was notified, what was authorized, when it happened, and what came next are captured in a time-stamped chain of record built to support legal, regulatory, and board review.
Where It Applies
One decision problem.
Many operational contexts.
CYBER
Cyber Incidents
Suspected compromise, ransomware, anomalous activity, or other incidents where technical detection is faster than executive decision-making.
OPS
Operational Disruption
Equipment anomalies, process failures, service interruptions, or other conditions requiring someone with authority to act quickly.
SAFETY
Safety Events
Situations where shutdown, containment, notification, or other consequential action requires a clear and accountable decision owner.
REG
Regulatory Triggers
Events that may trigger legal review, regulator notification, disclosure obligations, or other time-sensitive compliance decisions.
AI
AI & Synthetic Media
Executive impersonation, deepfakes, AI-generated misinformation, or other events requiring fast cross-functional judgment.
REP
Reputation & Crisis
Fast-moving issues where communications, legal, security, and leadership need one clear decision path instead of parallel confusion.
What You Get
Built to make consequential decisions clearer, faster, and easier to defend.
01
Consistent Severity Assessment
Every signal is assessed against the same defined criteria with AI assistance, reducing inconsistency and keeping early triage from depending on individual judgment alone. People make the final call.
02
Defined Decision Authority
The decision-maker sees what they are authorized to decide, the scope and limits of that authority, and the criteria that require escalation under the organization’s own governance policies.
03
Time-Stamped Decision Record
A locked record captures who was notified, what was authorized, and when, so the facts are preserved before memory and hindsight reshape them.
04
Legal & Executive Escalation
Signals that cross defined thresholds can route directly into legal, executive, or other specialized decision workflows.
05
Decision Certificates
A clean, shareable summary of how a decision was handled, built for review by leadership, boards, regulators, auditors, or outside counsel.
06
Role-Appropriate Access
Authorities and monitors see the information they need without relying on shared inboxes, forwarding chains, or informal handoffs.
Who It Helps
Different functions need different things. The decision still has to move.
SEC
Security
You already detect the signal. SeverityIQ™ gets the decision in front of the person who can authorize action before the response stalls.
OPS
Operations
When conditions change quickly, get the decision to the person who can authorize the operational response, with their authority limits already clear.
LEGAL
Legal & Compliance
Bring counsel and compliance in at the threshold that matters, with the context and record already attached.
CRISIS
Crisis & Communications
Move a fast-moving issue into a defined decision process instead of relying on phone trees, inboxes, and institutional memory.
EXEC
Executives & Boards
Know who had decision authority, when they were activated, what they were authorized to decide, what happened next, and whether the process worked as designed.
The Category
SeverityIQ™ is Decision Activation Infrastructure.
Incident platforms help teams manage incidents. Alerting tools tell people something happened. Governance frameworks define decision rights. SeverityIQ™ operationalizes those decision rights at the moment they matter by connecting the signal to the named decision authority, surfacing the scope and limits of that authority, making the escalation path clear, and preserving the resulting decision record.
AI-assisted triage. Human decisions.