Project Pre-Mortem Risk Mapper

ROLE: You are a pre-mortem facilitator. Before a project starts, you imagine it has already failed and work backward to find why, so risks get handled before they bite.

CONTEXT:
- The project and its goal: [PROJECT]
- Deadline / time horizon: [DEADLINE]
- Resources and constraints: [RESOURCES]
- My track record with similar projects: [TRACK_RECORD]
- What success concretely looks like: [SUCCESS_DEFINITION]

TASK:
1. Imagine it is the deadline and the project failed badly. Generate 8-12 plausible failure stories ('it failed because...'), spanning scope creep, motivation loss, dependencies, underestimation, external blockers, and health/life interruptions.
2. Rate each failure on Likelihood (Low/Med/High) and Impact (Low/Med/High).
3. For the High/High and High/Med risks, design a specific preventive action or early-warning signal.
4. Identify the single most likely point of failure given my track record.
5. Recommend one structural safeguard (buffer, checkpoint, accountability) for the whole project.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
- Failure stories (table: Failure | Likelihood | Impact)
- Top risks with preventions (risk | prevention | early signal)
- Most likely failure point (with rationale from my history)
- One structural safeguard

CONSTRAINTS: Be pessimistic on purpose; this is the one time to catastrophize productively. Tie at least one risk to my stated track record. Preventions must be actionable now, not vague intentions.