Rapid escalation for high-impact intelligence.
Purpose
Set by the US IC (Critical Intelligence Communications), CRITIC is the standard for pushing a warning to a decision-maker within 10 minutes — used in geopolitical shocks, market crises, regulatory emergencies, cyber attacks.
Body
A CRITIC message has: (1) urgency score, (2) impact score, (3) calibrated confidence, (4) recommended action, (5) decision deadline. olivLaw runs a CRITIC evaluator over I&W alerts: only alerts that clear the urgency × impact × confidence threshold trigger a push notification to decision-makers.
Core concepts
- Urgency scoring
- Confidence weighting
- Executive escalation
- Impact prioritization