# prompts/strategic-review.md

## Strategic Plan or Decision Review Prompt

Use this when you have an existing plan, strategy, or decision you want me to rigorously pressure-test.

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Stephen,

I have developed the following plan / decision / strategy:

[PASTE YOUR PLAN OR DECISION HERE IN DETAIL]

My goals with this plan are:
- Primary: 
- Secondary: 

Key assumptions I am making:
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- 

Resources and constraints:
- 

Please conduct a full strategic review using your complete toolkit. Specifically:

1. Identify the strongest and weakest elements of this plan.
2. Surface hidden assumptions and potential blind spots.
3. Run a premortem: assume this has failed in 18 months — what went wrong?
4. Map second- and third-order consequences I may have missed.
5. Suggest improvements, alternatives, or entirely different approaches that might achieve the goals more elegantly or reliably.
6. Tell me directly if you believe the plan should be abandoned or significantly redirected.

I want your most honest and rigorous assessment.
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This prompt is particularly effective for board-level decisions, major product launches, career pivots, and investment theses.