Endstate | AI-Native Mission Planning

Turn mission context into decisive action when speed matters most. Endstate is an AI-native mission planning platform built for military staffs conducting the Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP). The platform accelerates planning from receipt of mission through orders production while maintaining complete traceability and doctrinal compliance.

Military Planning Reimagined

Agentic AI that understands doctrine, accelerates planning, and keeps your team synchronized. Endstate transforms how military planners approach complex operations by combining artificial intelligence with doctrinal expertise. Purpose-built for battalion, brigade, and division-level planning staffs.

Complete MDMP Workflow Support

Endstate supports all seven phases of the Military Decision-Making Process with dedicated tools and AI assistance for each step.

Phase 1: Receipt of Mission

Alert staff, assess available time, and issue initial Warning Orders. Endstate helps planners quickly parse higher headquarters orders to identify key tasks, constraints, and timeline requirements.

Phase 2: Mission Analysis

Comprehensive mission analysis tools including Problem Framing Worksheets, IPOE Worksheets, and Staff Estimates. Analyze the mission, operational environment, tasks, and constraints with AI-assisted document extraction and entity recognition.

Phase 3: COA Development

Develop feasible courses of action with AI-generated COA guidance. The COA Builder helps planners structure concept of operations, scheme of maneuver, concept of fires, sustainment concept, protection plan, and command and control arrangements.

Phase 4: COA Analysis

Digital wargaming tools to test and analyze courses of action. Evaluate risks, decision points, and synchronization requirements. Relative combat power analysis compares friendly versus enemy forces using doctrinal ratios.

Phase 5: COA Comparison

Compare multiple COAs side-by-side against commander's criteria. Prepare decision briefs with structured evaluation frameworks.

Phase 6: COA Approval

Brief courses of action and secure commander decision. Generate Warning Order updates to alert subordinate units.

Phase 7: Orders Production

Produce complete five-paragraph Operation Orders (OPORDs) from approved COAs. Orders Cross-Walk validates tasks, timelines, and resources for consistency. Generate annexes, appendices, and supporting products.

Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (IPOE)

Endstate provides comprehensive IPOE support for intelligence staff sections. Define the operational environment with area of operations boundaries. Analyze environmental effects including weather, terrain, and infrastructure impacts on operations.

OAKOC Terrain Analysis

AI-powered OAKOC analysis evaluates Observation and fields of fire, Avenues of approach, Key terrain, Obstacles, and Cover and concealment. Generate terrain overlays from geospatial data with automated obstacle classification (unrestricted, restricted, severely restricted). Identify mobility corridors and key terrain candidates with scoring algorithms.

Threat Analysis

Evaluate threat capabilities, composition, and disposition using DRAW-D methodology (Defend, Reinforce, Attack, Withdraw, Delay). Develop threat courses of action including most likely and most dangerous enemy COAs.

Weather Effects

Integrate weather forecasts and analyze effects on friendly and enemy operations. Assess impacts on mobility, visibility, aviation, and communications.

Document Intelligence and Entity Extraction

Endstate ingests complex orders, annexes, and CONOPs in PDF, DOCX, and other formats. AI-powered extraction automatically identifies and categorizes military planning entities.

Supported Entity Types

The platform recognizes over 40 military entity types organized into mission and intent, situation and enemy, execution and tasks, control measures and graphics, sustainment, and command and signal categories. Extract mission statements, commander intent, tasks to subordinate units, coordinating instructions, fire support plans, timeline events, objectives, phase lines, boundaries, and more.

Multi-Modal Processing

Process text, images, tables, charts, and maps from military documents. OCR support for scanned documents. Extract structured data from complex operational graphics and overlays.

Human-in-the-Loop Review

Automatically extracted entities require human verification. Accept, modify, or reject extractions with confidence scores. Add notes and comments for audit trails. This approach ensures accuracy while dramatically reducing manual data entry.

Tactical Mapping and Geospatial Analysis

Built-in tactical mapping with military symbology support. Interactive maps with multiple base layers for operational planning.

Military Symbology

Place and edit military unit symbols using MIL-STD-2525 and APP-6D standards. Describe forces in plain language and Endstate generates doctrine-compliant symbols instantly. Create accurate unit graphics without memorizing complex symbol identification codes.

Tactical Graphics

Draw boundaries, control measures, routes, axes of advance, phase lines, objectives, and other tactical graphics. Synchronize operational graphics with the mission context graph.

Terrain Visualization

Hillshade rendering, slope analysis, and elevation visualization. Identify hilltops, ridgelines, and key terrain features. Terrain obstacle polygon analysis for mobility planning.

Advanced Analysis Tools

Viewshed analysis calculates observation areas from positions. Line of sight analysis between points. Route planning with pathfinding algorithms. MGRS grid overlay and coordinate conversion.

Collaborative Planning Environment

A single, live workspace keeps every warfighting function synchronized. Updates ripple across all linked products instantly.

Staff Section Coordination

Track entity proposals, approvals, and WARNO acknowledgments in real-time across S2 (Intelligence), S3 (Operations), S4 (Logistics), S6 (Signal), and other staff sections. Comments and annotations on paragraphs, entities, and documents.

Warfighting Function Integration

Integrated support for Command and Control, Maneuver, Intelligence, Fires, Sustainment, and Protection warfighting functions. Progress tracking per phase and per warfighting function.

Access Control and Permissions

Role-based permissions for administrators, full users, and read-only access. Document-level privacy controls. Support for cross-unit access grants for liaison, joint operations, and coalition planning.

Traceability and Auditability

Every extracted entity and planning decision links back to its source document or data record. Bidirectional linking between documents and entities provides complete audit trails for mission-critical decisions.

Source Attribution

Paragraph-level links trace entities to original source material. See exactly how conclusions are derived from orders, annexes, and intelligence products.

AI Citation Tracking

AI-generated suggestions include citations to source documents. Verify AI recommendations against original material.

AI-Powered Planning Assistance

Specialized AI agents provide context-aware assistance throughout the planning process.

Document Analysis

AI chat assistant answers questions with document context. Analyze orders, summarize content, and identify key planning factors.

Terrain Analysis Agent

OAKOC and IPOE terrain analysis with key terrain candidate generation. Geospatial feature queries and proximity calculations.

Weather Analysis Agent

IPOE weather analysis with forecast integration and effects assessment on operations.

Symbol Generation Agent

Generate MIL-STD-2525E tactical symbols from natural language descriptions. Symbol lookup, modification, and SIDC code generation.

Planning Products and Outputs

Generate comprehensive planning products aligned with Army doctrine.

Orders and WARNOs

Five-paragraph Operation Orders (OPORDs), Warning Orders (WARNOs), and Fragmentary Orders (FRAGOs). Annexes and appendices for fires, intelligence, sustainment, and other functional areas.

Worksheets and Estimates

Problem Framing Worksheets, IPOE Worksheets, Staff Estimates, and Commander's Guidance capture. Export capabilities for briefings and print packets.

Synchronization Tools

Timeline visualization for operations with key dates management. Planning time allocation using the 1/3-2/3 rule. Synchronization matrix for events and phase deadline tracking.

Who Uses Endstate

Endstate serves military planners, staff sections, commanders, and defense organizations conducting mission analysis and operational planning. Purpose-built for battalion, brigade, and division-level staffs executing MDMP.

Primary Users

• S2 Intelligence Staff - IPOE, threat analysis, and situational understanding
• S3 Operations Staff - COA development, orders production, and synchronization
• S4 Logistics Staff - Sustainment planning and resource allocation
• Fire Support Officers - Fire support planning and coordination
• Commanders and Executive Officers - Decision-making and guidance

Key Capabilities Summary

• Full MDMP workflow from receipt of mission through orders production
• AI-powered document extraction with 40+ military entity types
• IPOE and OAKOC terrain analysis with geospatial integration
• MIL-STD-2525 military symbology and tactical graphics
• COA development, wargaming, and comparison tools
• OPORD and WARNO generation with annexes
• Real-time collaboration across staff sections
• Complete traceability and audit trails
• Multi-modal document processing (text, images, tables, maps)
• Viewshed and line of sight analysis
• Timeline and synchronization management

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Endstate?

Endstate is an AI-native mission planning platform for military staffs that accelerates MDMP with a context graph linking units, tasks, locations, timelines, and decisions back to source documents.

How does Endstate support MDMP?

Endstate provides dedicated tools for all seven MDMP phases: receipt of mission, mission analysis, COA development, COA analysis, COA comparison, COA approval, and orders production. Each phase includes AI assistance, worksheets, and collaboration features.

What is IPOE and how does Endstate help?

Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (IPOE) is the systematic process of analyzing threat and environment factors. Endstate accelerates IPOE through automated OAKOC terrain analysis, threat evaluation, weather effects assessment, and structured worksheet tools.

What planning products does Endstate help create?

Endstate supports creation of OPORDs, WARNOs, FRAGOs, annexes, staff estimates, IPOE worksheets, problem framing worksheets, synchronization matrices, and briefing products.

How does Endstate ensure traceability?

Every extracted entity and planning decision links back to its source document or data record, providing auditable context for mission-critical decisions. AI suggestions include citations to source material.

What document formats does Endstate support?

Endstate processes PDF, DOCX, DOC, and text files. Multi-modal processing handles images, tables, charts, and maps within documents.

Does Endstate support military symbology?

Yes, Endstate supports MIL-STD-2525 and APP-6D military symbology standards. Generate tactical symbols from natural language descriptions without memorizing symbol codes.

How does collaboration work in Endstate?

Endstate provides a live collaborative workspace where updates sync across all staff sections in real-time. Role-based permissions control access, and comments and annotations enable staff coordination.