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Strategy & Analysis
6 skills

Decision Hygiene

Stress-test important choices with pre-mortems, base rates, assumptions, and expected-value thinking. This is still a catalog page: it shows the available skills, but the surrounding product and solution context lives elsewhere.

Skills

Pre-Mortem Analysis

@pre-mortem

Assume the decision failed 12 months from now, then work backward to surface the failure modes, early warning signs, and mitigations you'd otherwise miss.

Examples

@pre-mortem we launch enterprise next quarter and it flops@pre-mortem accepting this acquisition offer@pre-mortem hiring a VP Sales before product-market fit

Base Rate Check

@base-rate

Ground a decision in comparable outcomes, historical patterns, and company memory instead of optimistic timelines or anecdotal evidence.

Examples

@base-rate can we migrate the stack in 3 months?@base-rate what happens when startups of our stage hire enterprise AEs this early?@base-rate should we expect this pricing experiment to lift conversion?

Inversion Analysis

@invert

Flip the question from "how do we win?" to "how do we guarantee failure?" and use that inversion to expose fragile assumptions and avoidable mistakes.

Examples

@invert how do we guarantee this market expansion fails?@invert what would make this fundraising process collapse?@invert how do we ruin this product launch?

Assumption Audit

@assumptions

List the hidden assumptions behind a plan, what evidence supports each one, what would falsify it, and what breaks if it turns out wrong.

Examples

@assumptions audit our Series A plan@assumptions what are we assuming in this pricing change?@assumptions test the logic behind this hiring roadmap

Expected Value Calculator

@expected-value

Frame a decision as a probabilistic bet, compare upside and downside across options, and make the tradeoffs explicit instead of emotional.

Examples

@expected-value should we take this partnership deal?@expected-value compare raising now versus extending runway@expected-value evaluate hiring this senior engineering leader

Second-Order Effects

@second-order

Move beyond first-order consequences and trace the follow-on effects, dependencies, and unintended outcomes a few steps ahead.

Examples

@second-order what happens if we cut self-serve and go full enterprise?@second-order what follows after this team reorg?@second-order think through the downstream effects of raising a bigger round

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