Systems risk • Failure modeling • Organizational resilience
PreMortem helps leadership teams surface hidden failure modes, misaligned incentives, and second-order effects— early enough to fix them.
Three services. One outcome: prevent costly mistakes while there’s still time to choose differently.
Executive pre-mortems on strategy, product, security, policy, and operations. We map how your initiative fails before it launches—so you can redesign it while change is cheap.
When something is already breaking (or about to), we stabilize the decision space: what matters now, what can wait, what’s misinformation, and where cascades begin.
We redesign systems so they hold under real pressure: incentives, processes, technical controls, and human factors. Not compliance theater—operational durability.
A simple process that respects executive time and produces usable decisions.
What are you about to commit to? What must be true for it to succeed?
We map failure paths, incentives, constraints, and cascades—fast, calmly, and explicitly.
We define leading indicators and the single best “next check” to validate reality.
You get ranked mitigation options: cheapest first, highest leverage first, or both.
PreMortem exists for one reason: to prevent leadership teams from sleepwalking into avoidable failure.
Most failures aren’t caused by bad people. They’re caused by bad systems: misaligned incentives, untested assumptions, and second-order effects nobody mapped.
PreMortem is built for leaders who want clarity—not comfort—and who prefer problems discovered early over apologies delivered late.
Tell us what decision you’re facing and what “failure” would look like. We’ll reply with next steps and a proposed session format.
Prefer email? everett@premortem.xyz
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