Be ready before you need to be.
A four-level system for getting your household ready — for a stormy weekend, a long week without power, or anything bigger. No bunkers. No panic. Just a clear plan.
Confident, capable, and built for people who would rather be ready than scared.
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Where are you today?
Where do you want to be?
Ready for 72 hours
A storm rolls through, the power is out for two days, the store shelves are picked clean. You and your household are fine.
Ready for 2 weeks
Extended regional disruption — a major storm, prolonged outage, supply-chain hiccup. You can wait it out without panic shopping.
Ready for 3 months
Serious disruption. You have storage systems, water sourcing, heat, and the skills to use them. You stop reacting and start managing.
Long-term resilience
Self-sufficiency. Food production, energy independence, off-grid systems, deliberate community. The household becomes a node, not an island.
Five tools. Pick the one that matches what you need right now.
Build Your Kit
Ten questions about your household and your climate. The output is a personalized kit — water and food sized to your family, priority gear ordered by your situation, printable as a PDF.
Start the wizardThe Prep Matrix
Five events × four durations. A hurricane 72-hour list looks different from a wildfire 72-hour list. Each cell is its own checklist with its own load-bearing domains.
Open the matrixHow Much, Exactly?
How much water for a family of four for two weeks? How much food for one person for three months? The math, the worked example, and the situations that move the number up.
Run the numbersThe Garden Plan
ZIP code in, season plan out — what to plant for your zone, when to start it, and what goes next to what. A drag-and-drop bed designer catches bad neighbors before the garden does.
Plan the gardenHomestead Command
Level 4 is the corner we hand off — this is the console we send with you. Beds, reservoirs, feed-days, the build queue, and a ledger that turns "are we getting anywhere?" into a number.
Open the consoleA pile of gear in a closet is not a plan.
Most preparedness fails not from a lack of supplies, but from a lack of organization. A plan is what turns a bad weekend from a crisis into an inconvenience.
It is also what makes the rest of life feel a little less fragile.
Read the case →What we cover
The flagship set
Six interlocking pieces — three deep-dive guides, two field checklists, and a gear breakdown — that together cover the first two weeks. The event playbook and the manifesto live in their own bands, above and below.
The 72-hour baseline: what every household actually needs
No bunker. No tactical gear. Just the small, finite set of supplies and decisions that turns a bad weekend from a crisis into an inconvenience.
72-hour readiness checklist
The full short-list. Water, food, power, light, first aid, documents, comms. If you finish this list, your household is ready for 72 hours.
Power outage kit — three budget tiers
The same job, three price points. What we recommend at $80, at $300, and at $1,200 — and the honest reasons to pick each.
Water storage for a family of four
A gallon per person per day is the answer everyone repeats. Here is what that actually looks like on a shelf, where to put it, and how to keep it drinkable.
Two-week pantry checklist
A working list to take to the grocery store. Built around foods you actually eat, organized so nothing rots in the back of a shelf.
Building a two-week food supply
Beyond the 72-hour shelf. How to extend a pantry into a two-week buffer using groceries you already eat — not a stack of buckets gathering dust.
When something is actually happening.
In an emergency, you don't think in levels and domains — you think in events. Playbooks pull from across the matrix into one before/during/after plan.
Browse all five playbooks→- Winter storm & outage · live
- Hurricane · live
- Wildfire evacuation · live
- Grid-down · live
- Household medical · live