For event organisers · Risk management

Your risk register was last opened when the permit was approved.

Risk Register is the tool that keeps the risk work alive. Set probability and impact — the score, the colour and the heat map compute themselves. Owners and review dates flag themselves when they go stale. The steering meeting opens with a picture, not a sideways scroll.

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Built from real risk registersOlympic venues, world championships, city events

25+ years of event workBonacube · Finland

Every calm event day is a risk register that did its job.

The problem

You know this file.

Every event has one. Written in a serious mood, filed with the authorities, and never opened again. It works — right up until something happens.

The score column holds a dragged formula that quietly references the wrong row. The total looks plausible. It's wrong. I found one in a register of mine.
35 columns of x-marks. Filling it feels like an audit, so it happens once — in master planning — and never again.
The steering group asks "what are our top five risks right now?" The answer is silence and a sideways scroll.
Probability was scored 1–3 in one year's file and 1–5 in the next. Your own registers don't agree with each other.
There are names in the owner column — but no review dates. Whether any mitigation actually happened, nobody knows.

A file you may recognise

RISK_REGISTER_19012016.xlsx

KindExcel workbook · 35 columns

CreatedFor the permit application

Last modifiedThe date in its own filename

Cell O6=M6*N6+O21

Made once. Filed. Forgotten. The next time it opens is after something went wrong.

Risk work, kept alive

Picture the same project with a register that stays awake.

You set probability and impact. The score, the band, the colour and the heat map compute themselves. Nothing to drag, nothing to break.
The steering meeting opens with the Risk Board: heat map, top exposures, coverage. Thirty seconds, whole picture, no scrolling.
Every risk carries an owner, a plan and a review date. Passed dates turn red — the register nags so you don't have to.
The authority wants the register? One view-only link, or one A4 report. Always the current version.

This has nothing to do with taking risks more seriously. The tool has to make staying current cheaper than going stale.

The product

Risk Register.

A risk register with an engine. List what can go wrong, group it by theme, set probability and impact 1–5 — every risk gets its score, its band and its place on the heat map. Owners, responses, mitigation actions and review dates turn the list into a plan, and the coverage bar shows how much of the register actually has one.

Runs in the browser. Nothing to install. A library of classic event risks — power, network, weather, no-shows — means you start from experience, not from a blank page.

The structure follows registers used from Olympic winter venues to the Lahti 2017 World Championships. The 35 columns shrank to the ones that earned their place.

Risk Register.Covered 9/13 · 69%▶ RISK BOARD

#	Risk	Area	P	I	Score	Owner	Status
	WEATHER & NATURE3 RISKS
R-01	Storm wind above safety limits at the stage	Site	2	4	8 · Medium	Safety Officer	In progress
R-02	Colder than −20 °C on event days	Operations	3	3	9 · Medium	Ops Chief	Not started
	TECHNOLOGY & POWER4 RISKS
R-04	Power outage beyond generator coverage	Technical	1	5	5 · Low-Med	Technical Chief	In progress
R-05	Mobile network overloads with full crowd	IT	4	3	12 · High	IT Manager	In place

Why it works

Six problems from real risk registers. Six fixes.

Scores that compute themselves

Set probability and impact — score, band and colour follow, on the same 1–5 scale every year. The dragged-formula bug is extinct.

A heat map that's always current

The 5×5 matrix draws itself from the register in real time. When the steering group asks for the top five, you show them — in seconds.

A library of classic risks

Power cuts, network overload, storms, no-shows — the risks every event shares, preset with typical scores and suggested controls. Start from experience, not a blank page.

Owners, plans, deadlines

Every risk gets a response, mitigation actions, an owner and a review date. The coverage bar shows how much of the register has a plan — not just a list.

It nags before it goes stale

Passed review dates turn red and count on the board. The register tells you it needs attention — instead of waiting silently in a drawer.

Before and after

Score the residual risk once mitigation is in place, and show both pictures on the same heat map. Proof that the work moves the needle.

Risk Board

The view that opens the steering meeting.

Full screen. The live heat map, the top exposures, coverage and overdue counts. Toggle between inherent risk and after-mitigation. Print it as an A4 report for the board and the authorities.

This is the picture people actually want from risk work. A 35-column spreadsheet can't give it — which is why the question always lands on you instead.

Open the demo and press ▶ Risk Board

Risks 17Extreme 1High 3Covered 71%⚠ Reviews overdue 2

R-11Overcrowding at the main gate at opening20

R-05Mobile network overloads with full crowd12

R-02Colder than −20 °C on event days9

Jesse Kiuru walking through an event hall during build-up

Who built this

An event director. Not a software company.

I'm Jesse Kiuru. I help event organisers and host cities bid, plan and run better events. Event director of the Lahti 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Currently structuring the Winter World Masters Games 2028.

Risk Register exists because I have written the same register before every major event since the 2000s — and watched it fall asleep in a drawer every time. The structure in this tool is the one that survived those events; the engine is what Excel never gave it.

270,000spectators, Lahti 2017

3,000workforce coordinated

25+ yrschampionships to conferences

Pricing

Test first. Buy when it earns its place.

The free test runs on a full example event. Everything works, nothing saves. When you want your own registers saved and shareable, one payment.

Risk Register · Full version

€99 one time · no subscription

Unlimited events and registers
Auto-scoring: probability × impact, bands and colours
Live 5×5 heat map and the Risk Board meeting view
Risk library: 22 classic event risks with suggested controls
Owners, responses, review dates with overdue flags
Residual scoring — before and after mitigation
View-only share links · A4 risk report · A3 register PDF · Excel export
All updates to the current version included

Get Risk Register · €99 → or test it free first — no account, 2 minutes

Risk management platforms are sold to enterprises as yearly subscriptions. This one you own.

Questions

Asked before buying.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Risk Register runs in the browser — laptop, tablet or phone. Your events save automatically to your account.

Does the steering group or the authority need accounts?

No. You send a view-only link — the register, or the Risk Board directly. Or you print the A4 report. Nobody on their side installs or registers anything.

I already have a risk register in Excel. Do I start over?

No. 📋 Paste list takes your risks one per line — statement, area, probability, impact — and builds the register in minutes. Old sheet in, living register out.

Can I still get my Excel and PDF?

Yes. Every register exports to CSV (opens in Excel) and prints to A3 landscape; the Risk Board prints as an A4 report. The spreadsheet becomes an output, not the tool.

How do I know the scores are "right"?

You don't — risk scores are judgements, not measurements. The tool's job is to make your judgement visible, consistent and comparable: the same 1–5 scales every year, argued openly at the table instead of hidden in a formula.

What does "free test" mean exactly?

The full tool on an example event. Score risks, open the Risk Board, print the report, share links. Nothing saves — 100 people can test at once and never see each other's changes.