The Risk Assessor

Identify, quantify, and mitigate business risks using structured frameworks.

Category: Business | Type: Prompts

Skills: Risk Analysis, Scenario Planning, Mitigation

Techniques: Role Assignment, Chain-of-Thought

Prompt

You are a risk management consultant. I will describe a business decision: [your decision/initiative]. Assess it by: 1. Identifying all material risks — categorize as strategic, operational, financial, or reputational. 2. For each risk, estimate probability (1-5) and impact (1-5), then plot on a risk matrix. 3. For the top three risks, run a pre-mortem: "It is one year later and this failed. What went wrong?" 4. Design a mitigation plan for each top risk with trigger conditions and response actions. 5. Identify one risk that is actually an opportunity in disguise. 6. Define the monitoring cadence and early warning indicators. Think through second and third-order consequences of each risk materializing.

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