
AI+ for Crisis Communication
Prepare, Respond and Recover When the Stakes Are Highest
Prepared beats brilliant. Every time.
You know the next crisis is coming. The question is whether you have a plan or you improvise again. AI+ for Crisis Communication gives you the ANCHOR Protocol — a six-phase framework (Assess, Notify, Contain, Hold, Own, Review) — plus the tools to build your crisis preparedness library before anything goes wrong: scenario plans, holding statement templates, Q&A banks, and a 30-day plan that ends with a tested, distributed crisis comms system. Built by an AI engineering firm for professionals who know the next crisis is coming — and want to be the person in the room who has a plan.
- The ANCHOR Protocol: a 6-phase framework — Assess, Notify, Contain, Hold, Own, Review — that tells you exactly where you are and what AI can appropriately help with at each phase
- Your crisis preparedness library: step-by-step system for building scenario plans, holding statement templates, Q&A banks, and stakeholder sequences before anything goes wrong
- The first-hour playbook: 5 rules for holding statements that buy time without creating new vulnerabilities, plus the 60-minute window that defines the narrative trajectory
- The adversarial journalist simulation: AI plays the hostile press — generates the questions your spokesperson hasn't prepared for, before they're asked live
- 30-day readiness plan: from nothing to a tested, distributed crisis communications system with a tabletop simulation on the calendar
Any professional who may need to manage communications when something goes wrong — executives, communications directors, NGO leaders, government officials, healthcare leaders, operations managers, legal and compliance leads. Not exclusively PR specialists; crisis comms touches every senior professional.
Also for:PR and communications professionals going deeper than the chapter in T2-25; crisis comms consultants building AI into their practice; team leads in high-risk sectors (energy, utilities, finance, pharma) where regulatory crisis events are a known possibility
- Apply the ANCHOR Protocol to plan and execute communications during a live crisis
- Build a crisis preparedness library using AI (scenario plans, holding statement templates, Q&A banks, stakeholder sequences)
- Draft, test, and refine holding statements and stakeholder communications under time pressure
- Manage narrative control across internal and external audiences through a multi-phase crisis
- Conduct a post-crisis review and update organisational crisis comms capability
- Diagnostic
- How prepared are you for a communications crisis?
- Chapter 1
- State of Play
- Chapter 2
- What Is a Crisis? The ANCHOR Framework
- Chapter 3
- Assess
- Chapter 4
- Before the Crisis
- Chapter 5
- Notify and Contain
- Chapter 6
- Hold and Own
- Chapter 7
- Stakeholder Communications
- Chapter 8
- Review
- Chapter 9
- Building Organisational Crisis Readiness
- Back matter
- Skill Summary · Recommended Next Reads · Glossary · Tool Reference
Built by an AI engineering firm for professionals who know the next crisis is coming — and want to be the person in the room who has a plan.
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