Adversarial Decision Stress-Testing

Find where your plans will break before you spend money.

Most business plans fail for reasons that were obvious in hindsight. AHPAS stress-tests your proposals, budgets, and operational assumptions against documented real-world disaster patterns before you commit capital.

Interactive Harness

Compare standard reviews with hostile audits.

See how standard advisory reviews approve plans by looking at surface strengths in isolation, while AHPAS reveals fatal collisions between company operational reality and strategic goals.

Stress-Test Environment
1. Company Baseline & Operational Constraints domain_state_schema: b2b_saas_v1
2. Working Strategic Proposal plan_manifest: expansion_plan.md
Cross-checks internal operational reality against proposed initiatives.
Standard Review (Flattering)
Ingesting operational state & historical calibration...
✓ Feasibility: 94% Approved Conventional Advisory Baseline
Commercial Ambition & TAM Alignment HIGH

Strong market expansion strategy. The company holds adequate liquidity to fund near-term commercial hires, and upmarket expansion targets a substantially larger contract value.

Execution Risk Profile MANAGEABLE

Timeline and hiring targets reflect standard venture growth playbooks. Technical team velocity indicates strong shipping discipline under standard operating assumptions.

Advisory Verdict PROCEED

Approve proposal for execution. Standard milestone reviews recommended.

⚠ Fragility: 82% Critical Failure Risk P(Survival) = 0.18
AHPAS Counterfactual Intervention

Failure Taxonomies

Proven vectors that collapse initiatives.

AHPAS is not a generic checklist. It probes decisions against distinct structural failure mechanisms distilled from decades of documented project, organizational, and market disasters.

Domain 01

Timeline & Fat-Tail Overruns

Most projects run late and over budget because planners underestimate compounding delays and unpriced risks. We test schedules and cash projections against historical failure distributions.

  • External dependency delay compounding
  • Strategic optimism and under-budgeted emergency reserves
  • Linear planning on non-linear development tasks
Domain 02

Cascading Bottlenecks & Tightly Coupled Systems

Small slips in tightly linked operations trigger complete system stops. We detect fragile sequential handoffs where a 2-day delay in one team halts the work of three others.

  • Tightly coupled deliverables with zero buffer time
  • Feedback traps where work loops backward after handoffs
  • Single points of operational and regulatory failure
Domain 03

Team Friction & Tacit Knowledge Traps

Plans fail when people stay silent about problems or keep critical processes locked in their heads. We evaluate whether your team setup encourages honest debate or hides bad news.

  • Vital workflows trapped in one engineer's head
  • Hierarchies where bad news is softened for leadership
  • Unresolved ownership boundaries between team leads
Domain 04

Market Adoption & Cold-Start Dynamics

A proposal can have pristine execution and still collapse if customer economics fail. We test whether customer acquisition costs outpace payback before initial runway ends.

  • Dangerous concentration on 1 or 2 pilot customers
  • Cold-start stalls where network effects fail to ignite
  • Competitor counter-moves during enterprise sales cycles
Domain 05

Disruptive Traps & Resource Allocation Mismatch

Teams frequently fund sustaining improvements for existing customers while starving new high-leverage initiatives. We flag resource allocation conflicts that leave you vulnerable.

  • Resource dependence favoring incumbent processes
  • Premature scaling before core product validation
  • Misaligned incentive structures between sales and product
Domain 06

Deliberate Practice vs Comfort-Mode Execution

Detects organizational comfort-mode: teams executing familiar tasks with speed while avoiding the difficult, high-friction work required to de-risk an initiative.

  • Vague coaching and review criteria with no actionable signals
  • Effort expenditure disconnected from problem discovery
  • Absence of rapid feedback loops on critical hypotheses
The AI Blind Spot

Why generic chatbots cannot stress-test plans.

Mainstream models are designed to be helpful, agreeable assistants. They confirm your assumptions and produce flattering summaries that give false confidence.

Conventional AI & Standard Advisers

Trained to please

  • Eager to validate Treats whatever you type as sound truth. Never pushes back on aggressive revenue goals or tight deadlines.
  • Blind to organizational reality Cannot detect whether teammates distrust each other, avoid conflict, or withhold vital operational doubts.
  • Smooth corporate prose Produces polished memos that make fragile projects appear ready for board sign-off.
AHPAS Red-Teaming Engine

Adversarial by design

  • Searches for failure points Specifically searches for where timelines will slip, what vendors will stall, and where cash reserves run out.
  • Audits people and numbers Tests team dynamics, unspoken feedback habits, and tribal knowledge alongside quantitative financial models.
  • Actionable survival warnings Delivers direct, unvarnished warnings you can fix before wiring funds or making public commitments.
Engine Architecture

Grounded engineering, zero fluff.

Built from deep operational experience in credit underwriting and software systems. Delivers structured, typed evaluations with zero cold start.

Layer 01

Artifact Assimilation

Ingests working Google Docs, financial projections, Slack threads, and technical specs. Extracts underlying assumptions without requiring clean templates.

Layer 02

Multi-Vector Audit Harness

Tests the proposal simultaneously across hundreds of specific failure criteria, covering both economic models and human coordination.

Layer 03

Executive Pushback Dossier

Synthesizes an unsparing pushback brief: exact points of failure, probability of breakdown, and required mitigations to survive.

Engagement Tiers

Straightforward software pricing.

No consulting retainers or billable hours. Transparent software access scaled to your team's commitment cadence.

Product Teams & Startups

Team Workspace

$200
per month
  • Continuous proposal & spec auditing
  • Google Docs & Notion connectors
  • Up to 10 team seats
  • Full failure taxonomy checks
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M&A & Deal Teams

Due Diligence Room

Per Deal
custom per transaction
  • Complete virtual data room ingestion
  • Founder claim verification vs math
  • Confidential red-team dossier
  • 48-hour turn-around analysis
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Enterprises

Private On-Prem

$25,000+
per year
  • Self-hosted behind corporate firewall
  • Zero data transmission outside network
  • Custom organizational failure libraries
  • Dedicated engineering onboarding
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