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How quickly can Five Blocks respond to a crisis?

Quick answer

Within one business day. Five Blocks can typically get a senior advisor on a call within hours of an inbound, an initial IMPACT and AIQ diagnostic running on day one, and a tactical plan with named workstreams by the end of day one or two.

From an inbound, we typically have a senior advisor on the phone within hours, a diagnostic running the same day, and a named tactical plan inside the first one to two business days. The diagnostic and the interventions run in parallel, not one after the other, which is what makes that timeline possible.

Horizontal crisis-response timeline with five milestone nodes on a left-to-right arrow.
The crisis-response timeline: a senior advisor on a call within hours of an inbound, an IMPACT™ and AIQ™ diagnostic running on day one, a tactical plan with named workstreams by the end of day one or two, two to twelve weeks of intensive activity, then a retainer to hold the post-crisis baseline. The lower band shows why it is fast: the diagnostic and the interventions run in parallel over the same window rather than in sequence.

The crisis response timeline

  1. Within hours: senior advisor on a call. From the initial inbound, we can usually get a senior advisor on a call within hours.
  2. Day 1: diagnostic running. An initial diagnostic runs against IMPACT™ and AIQ within the first day and captures the current search and AI picture.
  3. Day 1, 2: tactical plan with named workstreams. We deliver a tactical plan with named workstreams by the end of day one or day two, depending on how complex the situation is.
  4. 2 to 12 weeks: intensive activity. Most crisis engagements run two to twelve weeks of intensive work.
  5. Ongoing: retainer baseline. A retainer follows the intensive phase to hold the post-crisis baseline.

Why the speed is possible

The response is fast because the setup is already in place, not improvised on the day:

  • The platforms are already running, so the diagnostic does not start from zero.
  • The team works the disclosed-COI Wikipedia processes daily.
  • We coordinate with PR firms and legal counsel routinely.

Because the diagnostic and the interventions run in parallel, the early days move faster than they would if each step waited on the last.

Last reviewed: 19/05/2026

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