What problem does it solve? Businesses often depend heavily on a few key people, creating fragility when a founder, executive, or specialist leaves. This Skill produces an evidence-backed succession planning diagnosis, decision, and operating plan that reduces key-person concentration and builds credible successors for critical leadership and specialist roles. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Critical Role Identification: Maps critical roles, defines future capabilities, and assesses the current bench with evidence and confidence scoring. - Successor Path Planning: Selects successor paths, creates development assignments, and tests emergency coverage for each critical role. - Risk-Adjusted Decisioning: Ranks options by constraint compliance, risk-adjusted value, and reversibility, with monitoring metrics like critical-role coverage and successor readiness. - Use Case: A founder worried about losing their head of engineering asks for a succession review. The Skill loads company context, identifies critical roles, assesses bench strength, and recommends development assignments plus emergency coverage plans with clear KPIs and review cadence. ## Quick Start Use succession planning to assess our key-person risk and build a successor development plan for our critical leadership roles.
