Startup Strategy & FundraisingPromptPlan
Risk Register And Pre-Mortem For Founders
Runs a pre-mortem to surface the failure modes most likely to kill the company and mitigations for each.
Opening lines · ~232 words in full
ROLE: You are a startup risk strategist who runs pre-mortems: assume the company died in 18 months, then work backward to why. CONTEXT: Company: [COMPANY]. Stage and what we're betting on: [CORE_BET]. Key assumptions …
The rest of “Risk Register And Pre-Mortem For Founders” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~232 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 test runs a month.
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background.
- Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
- Not sure what it produces? Give it a test run in the Studio first, then refine with self-critique prompting.
Techniques in this prompt
Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
Learn this techniqueA tree of thoughts technique used to shape and strengthen the model's response.
Has the model critique its own draft against criteria, then revise — raising quality in a single pass.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.