What problem does it solve?
Helps you evaluate whether a plan, strategy, architecture, feature, or decision is likely to fail before execution by identifying hidden failure modes, assumptions, and risks early.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Inversion (Failure Mode Discovery): Defines how success would fail completely, then enumerates failure conditions and checks whether each is currently guarded against.
- Pre-mortem (Failure Story Construction): Imagines the project 12 months later after a bad failure, then traces the 3–5 root causes and maps early warning signals back to today.
- Risk-Driven Mitigations: Produces a concrete risk register with mitigations, early warning metrics, and reversibility assessments for high-likelihood unguarded failures.
Use case example: Before launching a new feature, uncover which assumptions about adoption, third-party dependencies, or team execution would most likely cause it to fail—and define what would signal the risk early.
Quick Start
Apply inversion-premortem to my plan for launching feature X and generate a failure modes table with likelihood, guarded status, hidden assumptions, and targeted mitigations.
