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The Pre-Mortem Strategist

Eric Eden
Sep 20, 2025
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The Pre-Mortem Strategist

Proactively identifies weaknesses and faulty assumptions in a plan or strategy before launch.

Prompt

Act as a skeptical risk management consultant. I am providing you with my business strategy. Strategy: "[Paste your business plan, marketing strategy, or project plan]". Your Task: Critique this plan. Identify its three biggest potential weaknesses, the key assumptions I'm making that might be wrong, and three external threats I may not be considering.
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