Capture operational insights at the one moment they're reliably collectible — demobilization, before personnel scatter and memory fades.
After-action reviews collect insights weeks after the event. By then, people have moved on, memories have compressed, and the operational context is gone.
After operational stand-down, most personnel are unreachable or occupied with the next activation. The window to collect is measured in hours, not days.
andthen is designed for the realities of operational settings — mobile-first, fast to submit, anonymous by default.
Name your event, add phases and functional areas. Takes 60 seconds. Get a unique QR code and submission link.
Display the QR code at demobilization. Facilitator signals "feedback time now." Participants scan and submit before leaving.
Stop / Continue / Start questions with descriptive-recall framing. Anonymous. Optional context fields. Submits in under two minutes.
Every observation moves from received → acknowledged → implemented, deferred, or declined. The loop closes visibly.
Anonymous submission gets you the first round. Closing the loop is what gets you the second, and the tenth.
Every observation submitted to andthen gets an outcome — implemented, deferred with reason, or declined with reason. Contributors see a running count of what's been actioned. Silence is not an option.
The distinction matters: lessons identified (documented) vs. lessons applied (actioned) vs. lessons learned (the problem no longer recurs). andthen tracks all three.