A Simple Products LLC experiment

Crisis Dashboard

Real-time crisis monitoring across 16 global regions. Tracks credit, banking, volatility, and liquidity signals to surface systemic stress before it makes headlines.

Last updated: 2026-04-20

Who built this

CrisisBoard is a product of Simple Products LLC - a small, independent experiment lab and development studio. We build self-contained tools that attack one specific problem end-to-end, ship them publicly, and keep iterating in the open. CrisisBoard is one of those experiments: a rules-based, fully auditable way to watch where financial stress is actually coordinating across the global system.

The studio model is intentional. Each product is the work of a very small team, built fast, shipped early, and refined against real usage rather than whiteboard theory. That means things occasionally break, signals get re-tuned, and the methodology changes as we learn. When that happens, we document it on the Methodology page's changelog. Nothing is hidden behind a trust us wall - if a signal fires on your screen, you can click through to see exactly which rule fired and why. Who built this

If you'd like to reach out - corrections, suggestions for signals we should add, press or data-partnership inquiries - the Contact page is the best way. Contact page

Why experiment lab matters

Commercial crisis dashboards tend to be sealed products: black-box scores, proprietary data licenses, locked-up methodology. That's a fine business model and a bad public resource. CrisisBoard is built the other way - the scoring rules are visible, the signal glossary is published, the data sources are named, and the limitations are disclosed up front.

Treating the dashboard as an experiment rather than a finished product has real consequences in how we build it:

  • Ship first, polish second. If a signal or page is useful at 80% quality, it goes live. We fix the edges once people actually use it.
  • Document as we go. Every methodology change gets a dated entry. Nothing quietly gets re-tuned in the background.
  • Say what's broken. The methodology page has a dedicated Limitations section. We are not trying to pretend the dashboard sees everything - we are trying to be precise about what it does see.
  • User-facing, not enterprise. No sales call, no account required, no data licensing. The product is the public site. Feedback and real usage are how it improves.

What is this

A monitoring tool that watches global financial markets for early signs of stress — not daily noise, but the kind of cross-market divergences that tend to precede real dislocations.

It tracks credit markets, banking sectors, volatility, liquidity flows, and sovereign risk across 16 regions. Each region has independently calibrated signals and thresholds.

Each region is assigned a real-time crisis state: NORMAL MONITOR PHASE 1 PHASE 1.5 PHASE 2

The idea

Markets don't break all at once. Credit weakens, liquidity shifts, equity holds, volatility stays low. The divergence is the signal.

The system watches for disagreement between markets that normally move together. When credit says one thing and equities say another, that gap is often the earliest warning.

No single indicator means much on its own. But when multiple independent signals align — credit stress, bank drawdowns, liquidity shifts, suppressed vol — the pattern becomes worth watching.

What you need to know

  • Not financial advice. This is a monitoring tool, not a trading system. It surfaces conditions worth paying attention to. Your decisions are your own.
  • Data sources. Real-time market data from multiple providers. Refreshes every 3 minutes.
  • Black Swan detection. A separate system that fires when multiple severe conditions align across regions simultaneously — contagion, volatility storms, correlated sell-offs, and news panic.
  • 16 regions, independent evaluation. Each region runs its own state machine. A crisis in one region doesn't dilute or amplify another.

How it works

1Fetch

Live prices, volumes, and historical bars for each region's key instruments.

2Evaluate

Drawdowns, credit spreads, relative volume, signal conditions — summed into crisis points.

3Alert

Crisis state per region. Cross-region alignment triggers Black Swan detection.

Disclaimer

Provided as-is for informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice, not investment recommendations.

Crisis states and signals are based on automated analysis of public market data. They may contain errors or delays. Do your own research.

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