What you need to know before you start.

The Sentinel Resilience Assessment is a structured, confidential assessment of your preparedness across eight critical life pillars: home hardening, home infrastructure & supply readiness, medical preparedness & physical readiness, family protocols & crisis coordination, mobility & evacuation readiness, communications independence, financial resilience & legal protection, and mindset, skills & self-reliance. The free questionnaire gives you a scored baseline across all eight areas. Advisory engagements go deeper: reviewing your actual documents and arrangements to produce a prioritized action plan.

Any household that wants an honest answer to one question: if something went wrong on an ordinary Tuesday, would the people in the house know what to do? The free assessment, the Priority Strategy Call, the Program and the Starter are for everyone. The advanced engagements are for households with more to protect.

Paid engagements are conducted entirely by video, including the tabletop exercise. Geography does not limit who we can work with.

Every engagement is conducted by the advisor assigned to it. The practice was founded by Chris Leming, who has worked in insurance and financial services since 2012 and has run his own agency since 2014.

Each of the 40 questions is scored on a 0–4 scale based on your answer. Scores are aggregated by pillar and normalized to a 0–100 range, giving you a score for each of the eight areas as well as an overall preparedness score. Your three most critical individual gaps are identified based on which specific questions received the lowest responses. All scoring is computed server-side and is not visible until after you submit.

Yes. Your responses, your scored report, and any advisory engagement are treated with strict confidentiality. Sentinel Resilience does not share, sell, or disclose your information: with one exception: if your engagement involves referrals to external specialists, relevant information is shared only with your explicit prior consent and only to the extent necessary to make a productive introduction. Your report is sent only to the email address you provide, and all advisory work operates under engagement agreements that formalize confidentiality obligations. Confidentiality is a precondition for the honest answers the work requires.

You'll see your scored results immediately on-screen, broken down by pillar with interpretation copy for each band. A detailed report is also emailed to you for reference. Over the following weeks, you'll receive a short series of follow-up emails with practical steps tailored to your lowest-scoring areas. After the assessment you can book a Priority Strategy Call directly and choose a time: $99, sixty minutes, credited in full toward any engagement begun within ninety days.

Every engagement begins with the free assessment. If you want to talk your results through, the next step is a Priority Strategy Call: sixty minutes, by video or phone, $99, credited in full toward any engagement begun within ninety days. A family module for parents of children 11–15, Raising a Resilient Household, is included with the call.

From there, four engagements. The Starter, $2,500, examines one or two pillars you choose (the ones your assessment scored weakest, or the ones that worry you most) and delivers a written findings report. The Essential, $5,000, covers all eight pillars: two working protocols, a verified re-score, a six-month action plan, a ninety-minute debrief, and a certificate. The Full Preparedness Audit, $15,000, covers all eight pillars with a prioritized roadmap and two to three warm introductions to specialists, each briefed on your situation before you speak. The Starter, Essential and Full are one-time engagements.

The Principal Resilience Program, $50,000, is different in kind: an eight-to-twelve-week deep engagement that becomes an ongoing relationship and includes its first year of retainer. It is by application, and four engagements are taken on per year.

Sessions are held by video; for the Starter and Essential, intake and document review happen asynchronously. Every price here is the price on the pricing page, and nothing is quoted that is not there.

Most advisors are specialists: your estate attorney sees your estate, your financial advisor sees your portfolio, your insurance broker sees your policies. No single advisor has visibility across all eight dimensions Sentinel Resilience evaluates. Sentinel Resilience is specifically designed to identify the gaps that exist between disciplines: the things that fall through the cracks precisely because each advisor assumes another is covering it. Sentinel Resilience operates as an integrating layer, not a replacement for your existing advisors.

The Priority Strategy Call is a single 60-minute call by video or phone (your preference) with a written summary delivered within 24 hours. The Starter Audit is completed within approximately two weeks: one or two pillars examined closely, with a 60-minute debrief and a 30-minute follow-up at 60 days. The Essential Audit involves a 90-minute debrief call and takes 3 to 4 weeks from start to delivery. The Full Preparedness Audit is conducted over six to eight weeks with six 90-minute pillar working sessions, a two-hour executive debrief, and a 45-minute follow-up at 60 days. The Principal Resilience Program is an 8 to 12 week deep engagement covering all eight pillars across multiple principals with an annual retainer relationship included.

Yes. The questionnaire is available at any time and there is no limit on how many times you can complete it. Many clients find it useful to retake it after implementing changes from a previous assessment: both to track progress and to identify new areas that have emerged. Each submission is scored independently.

Start with the three areas identified as your top priority vulnerabilities in your report: these were the specific questions you scored lowest on. Your report email includes practical first steps for each. If your overall score is in the Critical or At Risk range, reaching out directly is encouraged. A Priority Strategy Call is $99: a 60-minute session where Sentinel Resilience reviews your results, identifies your top three priorities, and provides an honest recommendation. The fee is credited in full toward any advisory engagement begun within 90 days.