Pre-Mortem & Risk Register
Kill the plan on paper first — then leave behind the one page that tells you, early, which death is arriving.
What it is
Attacks a plan before reality does. Runs a disciplined pre-mortem — it is twelve months on and the plan has failed publicly, now write how — across the failure families that actually kill projects, then converts the stories into an operating instrument: one page, every risk owned, triggered and priced, with the early-warning signals, kill criteria and reserve sized against them. For founders, project leads and operators about to commit money, months and reputation to a plan the room has already agreed to.
What you receive
your plan stress-tested before it ships — a structured pre-mortem that names the ways it actually fails, converted into a one-page live risk register where every risk carries a plain-language cause-effect statement, a scored likelihood and impact, a single named owner, a measurable trigger and a response decided in advance, plus the leading indicators, kill criteria, reserve sizing and review rhythm that turn the first bad week into an action instead of a meeting
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to run a pre mortem workshop with my team”
- “risk register template for a project one page”
- “what could go wrong with this plan before we launch”
- “how to identify project risks before launch”
- “early warning indicators for a business plan”
Record
lineage: first-party house build
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.