Inside the app
Risks
The risk register — what could kill this, ranked and tracked to closure.
Every product workspace has a risk register: the place where the quiet knowledge that something is wrong becomes a tracked, decidable item.
Anatomy of a risk
- Category — market, platform/API, technical, distribution, financial, support, compliance, founder dependency, competition, other
- Description — the risk as a sentence ("the workflow breaks if the marketplace API changes its terms")
- Likelihood and impact — LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH each
- Mitigation — what you're doing about it
- Status — OPEN, MITIGATED, ACCEPTED, CLOSED
The risk register — the banner counts the unmitigated high-likelihood or
high-impact risks that block scaling decisions.
How the rest of the app reads it
- The Overview surfaces the highest unmitigated risk, and the dashboard's Needs Attention list flags HIGH risks on active products.
- Stage gates and reviews treat an unmitigated HIGH risk as a reason to pause advancement, not a footnote.
- The founder-dependency category exists because, for solo portfolios, it's the most common way products die quietly.
The habit
Write risks down before they're urgent. A risk register you update when you're calm is what makes a portfolio review fast: you're deciding, not discovering.