CrisisGo

CrisisGo is a safety platform that combines emergency response, preparedness, communication, and community coordination. Its coverage includes prevention, preparedness, response, accountability, recovery, and continuous improvement. Safety iResponse provides multi-channel alerts, panic button and ECHO Badge activation, live maps, and accountability tools. Safety Intervention Manager and Tipline support reporting, case management, and assigned follow-up workflows. Safety iPass handles visitor screening, secure check-in, event access, hall passes, and student movement. Emergency Mustering Manager tracks employees, contractors, and visitors, displaying people who are reported, unreported, or manually accounted for. The Open API can connect with HR, access control, student information, dispatch, and IoT systems, among other applications supporting modern web services. CrisisGo describes serving schools, businesses, public safety agencies, healthcare organizations, and communities. Community members can create a free account and subscribe to message groups. The independent-schools Safety iResponse plan costs $2,520 a year per school and covers up to 500 students; additional students cost $5 per year each.

CrisisGo covers several stages of safety planning and response, with tools for alerts, intervention reporting, visitor access, and mustering. The independent-schools plan’s student limit and per-student charge are key purchasing details.

CrisisGo may suit schools, businesses, public safety agencies, healthcare organizations, and communities coordinating safety communication and emergency response. The independent-schools plan includes support, training, and a dedicated Account Manager.

CrisisGo is a safety platform for schools and other organizations coordinating emergency communications and related safety work. It is best suited to teams that need alerts alongside intervention follow-up, visitor access, or mustering. Its broad toolkit is a stronger fit than a standalone alert service, but the school plan’s cost and recipient cap merit close attention.

Overview

CrisisGo covers safety work from prevention and preparedness through response, accountability, recovery, and continued improvement. Schools, businesses, public safety agencies, healthcare organizations, and communities are among its intended users. Its breadth is the main distinction: emergency communication sits alongside case follow-up, visitor management, and mustering, giving organizations options beyond sending an initial alert.

Community members can create a free account and subscribe to message groups. Organizations comparing Mass Notification Software or Incident Management Software may find CrisisGo relevant when both communication and subsequent safety workflows matter.

Key features

Alerts and response

Safety iResponse combines multi-channel alerts and mass notifications with live maps and accountability. It supports SMS, voice calls, email, desktop, and mobile app alerts, plus two-way messaging, panic button activation, and ECHO Badge activation. This range gives teams several ways to reach and coordinate people, though the stated audience limit of 500 recipients may constrain larger deployments.

Prevention and access

Safety Intervention Manager and Tipline support reports, case management, assigned follow-up workflows, and visibility into interventions. That makes the platform more useful for organizations managing concerns over time, not just during an emergency. Safety iPass adds visitor screening, secure check-in, event access management, hall passes, and student movement features, making the school-oriented scope particularly clear.

Emergency mustering and integrations

Emergency Mustering Manager tracks employees, contractors, and visitors during emergencies, distinguishing reported, unreported, and manually accounted people on one dashboard. CrisisGo’s Open API can connect with HR systems, access control, student information systems, dispatch software, IoT devices, and other applications supporting modern web services. These capabilities can support a more joined-up safety operation, although organizations should assess how the relevant systems will connect to their own workflows.

Security and support

CrisisGo says it restricts access to personal data to people with a business need to know and has procedures for suspected data breaches. It also says its platform is backed by Amazon Web Services and can scale to millions of users. The independent-schools plan includes 24/7 support, training, and a dedicated Account Manager, useful provisions for schools that need ongoing operational help.

Pricing

CrisisGo uses a freemium model, with paid plans from $2,520/yr. The free community account lets individuals subscribe to message groups; it is not a substitute for the school plan’s organization-level safety tools.

Safety iResponse for Independent Schools costs $2,520 a year, billed annually per school. It covers up to 500 students, with each additional student billed at $5 per year, and includes unlimited teachers, staff, and community members. The plan’s 24/7 support, training, and dedicated Account Manager add value for schools, but enrollment above 500 increases the bill, and the 500-recipient audience limit should be checked against the school’s notification needs.

Other paid plans have custom pricing. The independent-schools plan is the clearest fit for schools within its student allowance; organizations outside that audience should weigh the broader feature set against a custom quote rather than assume the same terms apply.

Platforms

CrisisGo supports Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web, and browser extensions. Its download page also links to apps for Chrome and Chromebooks, alongside mobile and desktop options, giving organizations multiple deployment paths.

Who it's for

CrisisGo is a strong candidate for schools that want alerts, intervention workflows, visitor access, and emergency accounting in one platform. Businesses, public safety agencies, and healthcare organizations may also benefit when they need several of those capabilities together. A group that only needs basic mass texting may find the broader platform unnecessary, while organizations expecting to alert more than 500 recipients should verify that the limit works for their response plan.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Broad safety coverage: Alerts, intervention case management, visitor operations, and mustering address different stages of safety work in one platform.
• Multiple alert channels: SMS, voice, email, desktop, and mobile alerts plus two-way messaging give teams several communication routes.
• School-plan support: 24/7 support, training, and a dedicated Account Manager are included for independent schools.
• Integration potential: The Open API can connect with a range of operational systems, including access control and student information systems.

Cons

• Recipient ceiling: The 500-recipient limit may be a poor fit for larger notification groups.
• Enrollment-based cost growth: The school plan charges $5 per year for each student above 500.
• Custom pricing outside the school plan: Other paid plans require a quote, making costs harder to compare upfront.

Alternatives

Choose Text-Em-All (formerly Call-Em-All) if a free starting point for broadcast messaging matters more than CrisisGo’s wider safety workflows. Its Starter plan is free, with no commitment, 25 credits for testing voice broadcasts, and test texting to your own number; mass texting requires an upgrade.

SA-Announce is another paid option with a free trial for readers who want to compare a different notification product. EMMA Notify is a paid alternative; its maker, Retrac, Inc. dba Think Safe, Inc., started in 2000 and is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Honeywell Forge may suit organizations considering product-specific offerings, including Advanced Process Control with term-based licensing and feature choices; pricing requires contacting Honeywell. AlertFind and BlackBerry AtHoc are paid alternatives with pricing provided on request or through a demo or sales inquiry. Hyper-Reach also provides pricing by request and offers a demo. InformaCast is worth considering for buyers who want endpoint-based licensing, with bundles from 50 to 5,000 endpoints and perpetual or subscription licensing for InformaCast Advanced Notification.

Verdict

CrisisGo is best for schools and other organizations that need one platform for alerts plus prevention, visitor management, or emergency accountability. Its most compelling reason to choose it is that breadth, reinforced for independent schools by training and dedicated support. Look elsewhere if you need only basic broadcast messaging, or if the 500-recipient limit and per-student charge make the school plan a poor fit.