MARSAD
Methodology/ Maturity roadmap

A graduated path from "starting out" to "advanced".

Operational resilience is not pass / fail. The roadmap gives banks a way to locate themselves on a longer journey and see the next move clearly.

What it is

The maturity roadmap is a stage-by-stage view of where a bank sits on its operational-resilience journey. It runs from "we have just started" to "we are operating well-evidenced, well-rehearsed resilience as a steady state", with intermediate stages that each have visible criteria.

It is not a benchmarking score. It is not a maturity model invented by MARSAD. It is a structured view of capability that banks, regulators, and assessors broadly recognise, rendered in a form a customer can act on.

Why it matters

Banks at different points on the curve have different questions. A bank early in the journey wants to know what to do first; a bank further along wants to know what "good" looks like at the steady state and where its trend signals are softening. A single number (a percentage) does not serve either conversation well.

The roadmap also matters because the bank's executives need to talk about progress with the board and with SAMA in the same language. The graduated stages give that conversation a shape that doesn't shift between audiences.

How MARSAD frames it

Each stage in the roadmap is a card with three parts:

The platform calculates the bank's current stage from its own activity. A bank can advance organically as its operating state matures; it does not need a third-party assessment to move on the ladder. The thresholds that govern transitions are configurable so the bank's own admin can set the level of rigour appropriate to its size and appetite.

Onboarding loop. A bank that has just installed MARSAD will look thin on the ladder for the first weeks. The onboarding loop accepts that explicitly, fresh deployments land at an introductory stage, the home view emphasises the next concrete step, and the platform promotes the bank up the early stages as data accrues.

What customers see

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