Executive Mentor

Pre-mortem plan analysis. Imagine the plan failed 12 months from now and work backwards to find the weaknesses. Surfaces assumptions, dependencies, and execution risks before committing resources. Use when before significant resource commitment, before presenting to a board or investors, when feedback has been one-sidedly positive, or when there is pressure to move fast and figure it out later.

Hard Call

Board meeting preparation for the adversarial scenario, not the friendly one. Forces numbers-cold mastery, anticipates hard questions, builds a narrative that acknowledges weakness without losing the room. Use when preparing for a board meeting, an investor update, fundraising presentation, or any high-stakes adversarial review where every number must live in your head not just on a slide.

Postmortem

Stress Test

Adversarial thinking partner for founders and executives. Stress-tests plans, prepares for brutal board meetings, dissects decisions with no good options, and forces honest post-mortems. Use when you need someone to find the holes before the board does, make a decision you've been avoiding, or understand what actually went wrong.