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How the platform works, written for the people who use it daily. Each guide covers what a feature does, how to set it up, and what its output does and does not tell you.

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Running an incident in the EOC

Create an incident, build a common operating picture, generate ICS forms, and share a live link with partner agencies.

Emergency managers · EOC staff8 min read

Monitor

The live map, what is coming for your areas, and how Calchis gets your attention when something changes.

Using the live map

Where the map opens and why, setting a home view, choosing layers, reading a hurricane's forecast cone, and looking up an address without losing your place.

Everyone · Duty officers5 min read
Your HVA and the triggers that activate your plan

The Hazard Vulnerability Analysis pre-filled from your county's federal record, and the live National Weather Service products that should activate the plan it supports.

Facility emergency managers · Facility safety leads4 min read
Completing your Hazard Vulnerability Analysis

How to fill in the 52-hazard analysis in Calchis: what each column asks, which three run backwards, how relative risk is worked out, and how to approve the document a surveyor will read.

Facility emergency managers · Facility safety leads · Health-system safety officers6 min read
What's coming for your areas

The forecasts that cover the places you monitor — NWS watches, SPC outlooks and the NHC hurricane cone — each with its own expiry, and the conditions that fire on them before anything has happened.

Emergency managers · Duty officers4 min read
The activity ticker

The scoreboard along the bottom of every page: what is active inside your areas, what is new since you last looked, and how to set it up for a wall display.

Duty officers · EOC wall displays3 min read
Reading an event page

Every active event has its own page: where the data came from and how fresh it is, the impact zones and what each means, what is inside them, and how it compares with the past.

Everyone4 min read
Your account, name and product

Set the name that goes on your forms, change your password, export everything, choose which Calchis product your navigation shows, or close the account.

Every account3 min read
Your plan and billing

See your plan and what you are using against its limits, upgrade, and manage or cancel a subscription.

Account owners2 min read
Being told at 3am

What Calchis will and will not do to reach you: the on-screen banner and tone, email alerts for your areas, condition notices on an incident, and the settings that decide them.

Emergency managers · Duty officers7 min read

Analyze

Hazard scoring, parametric triggers, portfolios, and the exports an underwriting or ILS workflow depends on.

Reading a hazard score

What the 0–10 score means, why it is labeled hazard rather than risk, and how to read the components behind it.

Underwriters · Cat modelers5 min read
API keys and webhooks

Create an API key, know your rate limit and daily quota, and send trigger events to your own systems by webhook.

Developers · ILS and underwriting teams4 min read
Setting an ILS parametric trigger

Define a parametric threshold against live federal event data, choose where to be warned, and get an auditable record of every evaluation.

ILS fund managers · Structurers6 min read
Building a portfolio and reading EP curves

Load locations, see aggregate hazard exposure, and understand what an exceedance probability curve does and does not tell you.

Cat modelers · Portfolio managers6 min read
Cat bond catalog basics

What is in the catalog, how to read a bond's trigger structure, and how the catalog connects to live trigger monitoring.

ILS analysts · Fund managers4 min read

Respond

Running an incident, tracking what you have, and coordinating across agencies from the EOC.

Adding your team

Create your agency, add colleagues by email, and choose what each can change — the agency's conditions and incidents are shared by everyone in it.

EOC managers · Account owners3 min read
Sending notices to another address

Send CCIR-met and trigger-breached notices to an EOC duty inbox or a distribution list, with confirmation and a stop link.

Emergency managers · ILS teams3 min read
Running an incident in the EOC

Create an incident, build a common operating picture, generate ICS forms, and share a live link with partner agencies.

Emergency managers · EOC staff8 min read
Planning and recording an exercise

Plan a tabletop, drill or full-scale exercise, run its injects, record who took part, and turn it into an after-action report.

Emergency managers · exercise planners5 min read
Running a what-if scenario

Place a hypothetical earthquake, hurricane or wildfire, see who and what is inside its zones, and take it into a tabletop exercise.

Emergency managers · planners4 min read
Tracking equipment and supplies

Keep a readiness picture of what you have, catch shortfalls before an activation, and commit resources to incidents.

Emergency managers · Logistics officers4 min read
Coordinating mutual aid across agencies

Register your agency, post and answer mutual-aid requests, and track fulfillment on one board across jurisdictions.

Emergency managers · Mutual-aid coordinators5 min read
Conditions worth waking someone for

How CCIRs, escalation prompts and decision points fit together: what fires, what it forces someone to decide, and where that decision is recorded.

Emergency managers · EOC staff7 min read
Defining your jurisdiction as a boundary

Add a county, city, tribal area or state as a monitored area, then use it as the jurisdiction on the dashboard and in the briefing PDF.

Emergency managers · Planners3 min read

Looking for the scoring architecture rather than a how-to? See methodology, data sources, or the API documentation.