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Most tools calling themselves "AI exercise design" are chatbots that generate content. Exercise design isn't a content problem — it's a coordination problem. Exercise Designer V2 is a ground-up rebuild: an agentic reasoning loop, a collaborative workspace with real roles for external reviewers, four ways to start (including a full Autopilot), 70+ scenario starters, and a Revise mode that can digest a SitMan with hundreds of reviewer comments and plan how to incorporate them. Grounded in your Preppr Knowledge base. Live today.

For years, Ask Preppr was a doc chatbot. You asked a question, it gave you an answer. Useful, but not the tool emergency managers and public health practitioners actually needed for real preparedness work. Today it's something different — an agentic assistant that reasons across your entire Preppr Knowledge base, plans its own work, runs specialized helpers in parallel, and delivers cited, exportable artifacts you can actually use. Here's what ships in the rebuild, and why it changes the kind of work you can do in a chat.

Most AI tools forget you the moment the conversation ends. You upload a document, ask a question, get an answer — and the next time you log in, you're starting over. Every session is a fresh amnesia. Today we're launching Preppr Knowledge — a persistent memory layer that sits underneath Ask Preppr, Exercise Designer V2, and every other tool in the platform. It holds your doctrine, your plans, your organization's context, and (increasingly) the work you've done with Preppr itself. It's what turns a chat assistant into a genuine thinking partner for preparedness.

Emergency exercises fail when they're disconnected from organizational reality — built on generic templates, designed in isolation, and shelved after delivery. Preppr Exercise Designer V2 is built around a different premise: that the quality of an exercise depends on how deeply it's grounded in your actual plans, your actual gaps, and your actual stakeholders. V2 meets you wherever your planning process is — from a blank page to a SITMAN covered in redlines — and produces a complete, doctrine-aligned, delivery-ready exercise plan with a full audit trail of how it was built. This article walks through how it works and why it's designed that way.

Tabletop exercises are only as good as the documentation they generate — and most organizations are leaving that value on the table. This guide covers the manual discipline behind high-quality exercise design, delivery, and documentation, and shows how Preppr compresses the timeline across all three phases. From writing objectives that produce evaluable decisions to running a hotwash that seeds the improvement plan, every practice here is designed to make your AAR easier to write and harder to ignore.

Not all AI vendors can answer basic questions about accuracy, security, and what their product actually does. Here are 10 questions and 7 buzzwords to cut through the marketing before you sign.