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We're an emergency management and resilience consulting firm. That covers a wide range of work — emergency operations planning, hazard mitigation planning, community wildfire protection plans, organizational readiness assessments, training and exercises, community trust and engagement, and disaster recovery planning.
What ties it together is our focus on the questions that determine whether a community recovers from a disaster: What will it demand? Can the organization meet that demand? Will the community engage? We've built our methodology — the Resilience Operating System — around answering those three questions before a crisis forces them.
A few things. First, we build plans and assessments from scratch — not from templates. Your community's hazards, demographics, and institutional relationships are specific, and your plan should reflect that.
Second, we bring quantitative rigor to work that often stays qualitative. Our Foresight framework produces scenario-specific demand projections — housing displacement, debris generation, service surge, economic impact, and governance load — calibrated against actual event outcomes, so resource decisions are built on numbers that reflect what your community will face. Our Readiness assessment scores organizational capacity across 24 indicators. Our Trust Infrastructure framework measures community engagement capacity across 23 indicators.
Third, the expertise that scopes your project is the expertise that delivers it. You won't be handed to a junior team after contract signing.
We work across planning, preparedness, response support, recovery, and mitigation. The balance of our work is in planning and preparedness — that's where we can have the most impact before a crisis. But we also support communities through active recovery, develop after-action reviews, and work on mitigation planning that positions communities for federal funding.
Both. A significant part of our work is disaster recovery — community recovery planning, disaster case management, after-action reviews, whole-community recovery frameworks, and the transition from recovery back to resilience. We also help communities navigate federal recovery funding streams including FEMA Public Assistance, Hazard Mitigation, and CDBG-DR.
That said, our strongest conviction is that the window before a disaster is where the most consequential work happens. What you build before determines what you're working with after. We're most valuable when we're engaged early — but we meet communities where they are.
It's the framework that organizes how we approach every engagement. It's built around three questions: What will this disaster demand? (Foresight) Can your organization meet that demand? (Readiness) Will your community engage? (Trust Infrastructure)
It's not a product we sell as a package — it's a methodology that shapes how we think and what we build, regardless of what the specific scope looks like. Some engagements draw on one framework deeply; others integrate all three.
Most government clients come through a formal procurement process — an RFP, an RFQ, or a sole-source contract. If you're a local government and you've seen our name on a proposal or been referred by a colleague, this page is meant to help you verify what you've heard.
Partners and primes typically reach out directly — by email or through a mutual connection — when they're building a team for an upcoming RFP. We're responsive and we move quickly on teaming conversations.
Some clients do find us organically and reach out directly for a conversation, which always starts with a free 30-minute call.
It starts with understanding your specific situation — your hazards, your current plans and their gaps, your organizational capacity, and your community relationships. From there, we scope work that's right-sized for what you need, not a standard package.
Most planning engagements run 6–18 months depending on scope and stakeholder involvement. Assessment engagements are typically shorter. We check in regularly, deliver on time, and flag issues early if something changes.
We don't publish standard rates because engagements vary significantly in scope, timeline, and the expertise required. What we can tell you is that we're transparent about cost from the start and we'll tell you honestly if a project is outside our capacity or beyond what your budget allows.
If you're working from a federal grant or a specific funding stream — BRIC, EMPG, HMGP, FEMA Public Assistance, CDBG-DR, and others — we're experienced with those requirements and can scope work accordingly. We also help communities navigate the documentation and reimbursement process for disaster recovery funding, which is where significant money is often left on the table.
Both. We frequently update, gap-analyze, and strengthen existing plans — that's often more efficient and more effective than starting over. We'll tell you honestly what's worth keeping and what needs rethinking.
When we do build from scratch, it's because the community genuinely doesn't have what it needs — not because we have a template to fill.
Our clients are primarily government agencies and public institutions — counties, cities, state agencies, and federal programs. We also work with nonprofits, universities, and organizations where real people are on the other end of the work.
We've worked with the State of California, the State of Oregon, the City of San Francisco, the City of Jacksonville, the City of Sonoma, Santa Cruz County, FEMA's Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, UCSF, and local governments across California, Florida, Oregon, and the Southeast.
We work nationally. Our deepest market presence is in California and Florida, with growing work throughout the Southeast and beyond. We travel for engagements that require in-person presence and are experienced with remote facilitation for stakeholder processes.
Yes. Two Lynchpin Road is a woman-owned firm and FL MBE Certified. These certifications are relevant for set-aside requirements and diversity goals in Florida and for contracts where diverse participation is prioritized.
If you're a prime looking to meet diversity requirements, we're happy to discuss how TLR can support your team.
Both. We prime engagements where we're leading the scope and managing the client relationship, and we sub to larger firms where we're bringing specialized expertise — scenario development, community engagement, readiness assessment, trust infrastructure — into a broader team.
We're a straightforward sub to work with: we deliver on time, we communicate clearly, and we don't create problems for the prime.
We maintain active teaming relationships with SWCA Environmental Consultants, Mozaik Solutions, Boothman Global, Arroyo West, Pearl Snap Consulting, and others. These relationships let us bring complementary technical capacity (environmental, logistics, communications, geographic) to complex engagements without compromising quality or continuity.
We're also always open to new teaming conversations. Reach out directly if you're building a team.
Yes. We work with a network of senior practitioners — specialists in planning, facilitation, whole-community and inclusive planning, AFN populations, and technical EM work — on a project basis. If you have field experience and subject matter depth, we're interested in talking.
Send a note with a brief description of your background and the kind of work you do best.
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