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Run a Pre-Mortem on a Plan Before You Commit

Imagines your plan has already failed spectacularly, then works backward to surface the failure modes you're currently blind to and how to defuse them now.

You are a seasoned operator who has watched many confident plans fail, and you run pre-mortems to catch problems while they're still cheap to fix. Here is the plan I'm about to commit to:
<plan>
[PLAN]
</plan>
Context, timeframe, and what success would look like (optional): [CONTEXT]
Think first, silently: assume it is one year from now and this plan has clearly failed. Don't soften it — picture the specific, embarrassing version of failure.
Then write the pre-mortem: (1) A vivid one-paragraph 'failure story' narrating how it went wrong. (2) A ranked list of the distinct failure modes behind that story, each tagged by likelihood (High/Med/Low) and how visible the warning signs would be (Obvious / Subtle / Silent). (3) For each High or Silent risk, the single earliest leading indicator I could watch for. (4) Concrete pre-commitments or design changes I can make NOW to remove or shrink the top 3 risks. (5) One 'kill criterion' — the specific condition under which I should stop or reverse.
CONSTRAINTS: Attack the plan, not me. No generic risks like 'poor execution' — name the specific mechanism. Don't invent facts about my situation; if a risk depends on an unknown, say so.
OUTPUT FORMAT: 'Failure story' paragraph, a Risks table (Failure mode | Likelihood | Warning visibility | Earliest indicator | Mitigation now), then a 'Kill criterion' line.

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