Three account risks are one shared exposure.
Fictional demonstration—not a diagnosis of Big Leap's operations.
1The owner question
Should we reserve backup coverage across three migrations?
2What each team sees
Each account team
Its own migration is on schedule.
Partner management
One hosting partner serves all three.
Resource planning
One reviewer covers all three.
Each team's report looks fine. Connecting them changes the decision.
3Connect the evidence
4What does not reconcile
- RECORDSame partner and reviewer; no fallback.
- INFERENCEOne disruption could affect all three launches.
- SCENARIOIf disruption occurs, working mitigation protects $22,000.
A difference between systems is not necessarily an error.
5Financial bridge
Agency contribution · 90 days, if a shared disruption occurs
- SCENARIODisruption, no mitigation: $72,000 − $24,000 credits − $18,000 recovery = $30,000
- SCENARIODisruption, mitigation works: $72,000 − $8,000 − $6,000 − $6,000 = $52,000
- SCENARIODisruption, mitigation fails: $72,000 − $8,000 − $24,000 − $18,000 = $22,000
No incident, no mitigation
$72,000
Contribution before incidents
No incident, with mitigation
$64,000
Mitigation cost still incurred
6Compare decisions
Verify before acting
Advantage vs baseline: $22,000 · Mitigation costs $8,000 in every branch, including no incident.
The advantage is conditional avoided downside. No incident probability is estimated.
7Why we might be wrong
INFERENCEThe partner and reviewer have independent capacity for each launch.
- Evidence strength
- Dependencies recorded.
- Execution dependencies
- Backup availability.
- Financial sensitivity
- Depends on credits and recovery assumptions.
- Client or contractual approval
- Contract credit terms.
- Timing uncertainty
- Launch dates clustered.
8Next action
- Recommendation
- Verify common dependencies before reserving backup coverage.
- Accountable role
- Head of Delivery
- Verification needed
- Confirm partner capacity and test a fallback.
- Reversal trigger
- Independent staffing and tested fallback arrangements remove the common failure point.
- Excluded benefits
- No incident probability is estimated.
- Mitigation cost applies even with no incident.
