Challenge

Challenge

Pre-mortem plan analysis. Imagine the plan failed 12 months from now and work backwards to find the weaknesses. Surfaces assumptions, dependencies, and execution risks before committing resources. Use when before significant resource commitment, before presenting to a board or investors, when feedback has been one-sidedly positive, or when there is pressure to move fast and figure it out later.

Optimized workflow

This edition turns the source methodology into a repeatable agent workflow with explicit inputs, checkpoints and deliverables.

Quality standard

• Confirm scope and missing inputs before execution
• Ground decisions in available evidence and preserve source constraints
• Return an actionable result with assumptions, risks and next steps

Agent compatibility

The same core method is packaged for Claude, Codex, GPT, Gemini, Cursor and OpenCode.