Meet the Sponsor: Fortiv
Fortiv is an AI-native business continuity management platform founded in Copenhagen. We sat down with Thomas Sehested, CEO and Co-Founder, and Emil Pfeiffer, CPO and Co-Founder, to learn more about what Fortiv does, why they chose to become a BCI Corporate Sponsor, and what they hope the BCM community takes away from the partnership.
Can you tell us a bit about Fortiv?
Fortiv is an AI-native platform built specifically for business continuity management. We're headquartered in Copenhagen and work with organizations across financial services, manufacturing, energy, and other highly regulated industries globally.
We exist to close the gap between being busy and being genuinely prepared. Most BCM teams are working incredibly hard, but the tools available to them weren't built for how BCM actually works. Data collection happens in one place, plans live somewhere else, exercises get tracked in someone's inbox, and when audit season comes around, the team scrambles to pull it all together. It's not that people aren't trying. It's that the process makes it almost impossible to keep up.
Fortiv deploys AI agents across every stage of that process; from Business Impact Analysis (BIA) data collection through to plan generation, exercise design, incident response, and executive reporting. Those agents are grounded in how BCM actually works and in each organization's specific context, so data is collected at the scale most teams could never reach manually, without the quality tradeoffs that usually come with it. The result is that BCM teams spend less time chasing inputs and more time on the work that actually builds organizational resilience.
What motivated you to become a BCI Corporate Sponsor?
The BCI represents the practitioner community we were built for. BCM professionals who hold BCI certifications, who were trained on the Good Practice Guidelines, who take this work seriously and want to do it well. Becoming a Corporate Sponsor is our way of showing up for that community properly.
There's also a genuine alignment in what we're trying to do. The BCI has long advocated for BCM as a continuous management discipline, not a periodic project and that's precisely the gap Fortiv was built to close.
Too many teams want to operate that way but can't, because the manual work required at every stage leaves no room for the strategic layer. We believe technology should remove that barrier, not add to it.
Can you share some of the values and goals of your organization?
At the core, we believe BCM teams are doing work that matters far more than the business typically recognizes and that the tools available to them have never reflected that. Our goal is to change the ratio: less time spent chasing stakeholders for inputs, reconciling inconsistent data, and manually maintaining plans and documents. More time spent on the analysis, judgment, and strategic work that actually protects the organization. That belief shapes every product decision we make.
"Business continuity has been stuck in the past. It’s complex, manual, and reactive. We're building for the future: AI-powered, automated, and always-on. But the goal was never automation for its own sake. It's about giving resilience teams their time back so they can focus on building true organizational strength rather than chasing updates." Thomas Sehested, CEO and Co-Founder.
Three principles shape how we build and how we work:
The practitioner comes first. Fortiv was built by people who understand BCM, and every product decision runs through the lens of whether it makes the practitioner's job better. We don't build features to impress procurement teams. We build things that solve real problems.
Humans stay in control. AI accelerates every task in Fortiv, but humans review and decide. That's not a disclaimer, it's a design principle. BCM requires judgment, context, and accountability. Our job is to give teams better information faster, not to remove them from the process.
Resilience should be measurable. BCM teams have spent too long measuring activity, plans completed, BIAs submitted, etc. without being able to show the business what that activity actually produces. We want to help teams move from counting tasks to demonstrating outcomes: gaps closed, risks quantified, recovery capability proven.
How does Fortiv's mission align with the BCI?
The BCI describes a continuous management system: an iterative journey where none of the activities are one-time events and their outcomes are never static. BIA feeds strategy, strategy feeds plans, plans are validated through exercises, and exercises generate lessons that feed back into analysis. That's the standard. That's what good BCM looks like.
Most organizations can't operate that way today, not because they don't understand the standard, but because the manual burden at every stage makes thoroughness unsustainable. Data collection alone takes months. Plans go stale almost immediately. Exercises happen once a year, if at all. The BCI's own framework describes these failure modes explicitly and they're the exact patterns we hear from practitioners every day.
Fortiv exists to make the BCI's vision of continuous, connected BCM achievable in practice, not just in principle. When data flows automatically from BIA through to plans and exercises, when plans stay current as the organization changes, when exercise findings feed back into the program. That's when BCM stops being a cycle that resets and starts being a program that builds.
What do you hope to achieve through BCI Corporate Sponsorship?
We want to be useful to the BCM community, not just visible. That means contributing to conversations that matter, sharing perspectives grounded in what practitioners are actually experiencing, and being a resource for people trying to build better programs.
We also want to learn. The BCI brings together practitioners from every industry, every geography, and every maturity level. Those perspectives make us better. Some of the clearest thinking about what BCM should look like comes from people who have been living with its limitations for years. That's exactly the community we want to be part of.
And frankly, we believe the BCM function deserves better tools than it's had. The practitioners in this community are doing critical work, often with tiny teams, limited budgets, and technology that hasn't kept pace with what they're being asked to do. If sponsorship helps us reach more of them, understand their challenges better, and demonstrate what's now possible, that's exactly what we're here for.
What initiatives does Fortiv have in place that the BCI community should know about?
A few things worth knowing:
The full BCM lifecycle in one connected platform. Fortiv covers BIA, dependency mapping, business continuity plan (BCP) generation, exercises and simulations, incident management, mass notifications, and reporting, all connected. Data captured in a BIA flows automatically into dependency maps and auto-generated plans. Plans stay current as the organization changes. Exercise after-action data feeds back into BIAs and BCPs. Most organizations manage these stages in disconnected tools or spreadsheets. The value compounds when they're connected.
Getting quality BIA data without chasing, correcting, and starting over. One of the most persistent problems in BCM is that the people who need to provide BIA inputs aren't BCM practitioners. They don't know what an RTO is. They don't read the guidance notes. They abandon questionnaires halfway through or mark everything as critical because they don't have the context to do otherwise. The BCM team then spends weeks chasing, correcting, and reconciling data they still can't fully trust.
Fortiv's conversational AI agent changes that dynamic. Instead of sending a form, you start a conversation, at scale. The agent interviews stakeholders in plain language, explains terminology in context, pushes back on vague or inconsistent answers, and adapts based on what the person says. Stakeholders complete it on their own time, on any device, without needing a BCM practitioner in the room to guide them through it. The data that comes back is structured, consistent, and ready for analysis, not a pile of free text that needs cleaning before it's useful. For BCM teams, this means the back-and-forth that used to consume weeks gets handled by the agent. They step in to review and validate, not to chase and correct.
“AI is changing how we work in resilience. Work is becoming more about systems thinking and expert judgment—defining the right parameters and making decisions." Emil Pfeiffer, CPO and Co-Founder.
Purpose-built for BCM, not adapted from something else. A lot of platforms are retrofitting AI into workflows that were designed for a different era. In Fortiv, AI agents are embedded into every workflow; conducting BIA interviews, reviewing plans against standards, generating exercise scenarios from live BIA data, drafting executive summaries during incidents. The practitioner's role shifts from doing the work to directing it.
Exercises that build real preparedness, not just tick a box. One of the most consistent things we hear is that exercises are painful to design, hard to scale, and nearly impossible to analyze systematically afterward. Fortiv generates full tabletop exercises, 15-minute individual micro-simulations that frontline employees complete asynchronously, and what-if simulations that model incidents across live dependency data, all from the same platform, all in seconds rather than weeks. After-action data is structured and comparable, so programs can demonstrate progressive maturity over time.
Humans stay in control throughout. Every AI output, from generated plans to exercise scenarios to executive reports, goes through human review before it's finalized. BCM teams can trust the output because they control the sign-off. That's especially important in regulated industries where the audit trail matters as much as the plan itself.
How can the BCI community connect with Fortiv?
The best starting point is a conversation. We're always happy to talk through what a team is dealing with, whether that's a specific workflow challenge, a question about AI in BCM, or just curiosity about what's changed in the tooling landscape.
BCI members can reach us through the BCI Corporate Sponsor directory, visit us at fortiv.io, or connect with our team directly through LinkedIn. We also attend key BCI events and would welcome the chance to meet practitioners in person.
Is there anything else you'd like the BCI community to know?
Just this: the BCM function has been underserved for a long time. Teams of two or three people are expected to maintain resilience programs across thousands of employees and hundreds of processes, using tools that were built for a different era and a different scale. They do it anyway,
and they do it well, but the ceiling on what's possible has been set by the process, not by the people.
That ceiling is moving. AI doesn't change what BCM is trying to achieve. It changes how much of the work a small team can realistically do, and how quickly. It means the BIA that used to take six months can be completed in weeks. It means the exercise that used to require a third-party facilitator can be built and run internally. It means the incident report that used to be assembled manually under pressure is drafted automatically while the team focuses on the response.
We're at the beginning of what this looks like for BCM. We're glad to be building it alongside the community that takes this work most seriously.
Fortiv is a BCI Corporate Sponsor. To learn more, visit fortiv.io or find us in the BCI Corporate Sponsor directory.
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