When an incident
happens, will your
governance hold up?
Ascents Pro is the human risk platform for guide companies that need to reduce liability, demonstrate due diligence, and build a safer operation from the ground up.
Active Trips
3 in field, 2 pending
Guide Certifications
8 guides · 1 renewal due
Pre-Trip Risk Reviews
This week: 4 of 4 complete
Incident Log
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The risk landscape
The industry is changing.
Accountability is increasing.
Regulatory scrutiny of guide operations is intensifying. High-profile incidents have prompted investigations that go beyond the mountain — into systems, documentation, and governance. The question isn't whether your operation is safe. It's whether you can demonstrate that it is.
Documentation
Incident investigations increasingly focus on pre-trip governance records
Liability
Companies without structured risk documentation face higher exposure in litigation
Insurance
Demonstrated governance is becoming a key factor in premium calculation
The platform
One system for your entire operation
Replace the spreadsheets, disconnected apps, and paper trails with a single platform designed for how guide companies actually work.
Human Risk Management
Build a structured picture of risk across every trip — terrain, weather, client readiness, guide experience, and known hazards — before anyone leaves the office.
Guide Team Management
Track certifications, experience levels, and competency across your entire guide team. No spreadsheet. No single point of failure.
Client Risk Profiling
Know who you're putting on the mountain. Client-verified logbooks give your guides an accurate picture of fitness, experience, and suitability — before they meet.
Governance & Compliance
Document your processes, policies, and due diligence in one place. Demonstrate effective oversight to your insurers, regulators, and the public.
Incident & Near-Miss Logging
A structured, confidential system for recording incidents and near-misses — so you can learn from them, not bury them.
Replace Multiple Systems
One platform replaces Google Sheets, separate booking tools, email threads, and paper logbooks — reducing operational complexity and the cost of keeping it all synchronised.
Safe System of Guiding Framework
A complete, integrated framework for planning, operations, and incident management — built on the principles of safe systems thinking and adapted for the mountain guiding context. Ascents Pro will be the first platform to operationalise this framework at the company level.
Questions we hear a lot
"We already use Google Sheets and it works fine."
A spreadsheet has no memory, no verification, no incident trail, and no ability to tell you when a guide's certification is about to expire. If something goes wrong, a spreadsheet is not a document of due diligence. Ascents is.
"We don't want to step on our guides' toes."
Ascents is designed to support your guides, not micromanage them. It gives them better client information before trips, reduces the admin they have to do, and creates a professional record of the work they're doing. Most guides appreciate that.
"What about our client data? Can anyone else see it?"
Client data is encrypted, private to your organisation, and never sold or shared. You control what your guides can see, and clients choose what they share with you. Full data governance documentation is available for enterprise accounts.
"What happens if Ascents shuts down?"
All data is exportable in full at any time in standard formats. Your records are yours — not held hostage. We're also building for the long term: the mountain guiding industry needs this infrastructure to exist.
Ready to build a safer,
more defensible operation?
Book a demo with our team. We'll walk you through how Ascents Pro fits your operation.