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Imagine your plan already failed, then get five independent 'here's why it died' stories — before you commit. Use when asked to pre-mortem this, why might this fail, what are the risks before I start, or imagine this went wrong. Produces five distinct failure narratives (each from a different cause — execution, timing, people, external, wrong-assumption), the most likely and most lethal among them, the early warning signs of each, and the specific mitigations worth doing now — catching failures while they're still cheap to prevent.

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# Pre-Mortem Panel

A pre-mortem beats a risk list because it's concrete: you assume the failure already happened and explain it, which surfaces problems a bland "what are the risks?" never does. This runs five *independent* pre-mortems from different causes, so you don't just get five versions of the same fear — you get the full failure surface, ranked, with the warning signs and the fixes worth doing before you start.

## What This Skill Produces

- **Five failure stories** — each a vivid "it's six months later and this failed because…" from a different root cause (execution, timing/market, people, external shock, a wrong core assumption)
- **Most likely vs. most lethal** — which failure is most probable and which would hurt most (they're often different)
- **Early warning signs** — the signals that each failure is starting to happen, so you can catch it live
- **Mitigations worth doing now** — the specific, prioritized moves to prevent or de-risk the top failures

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