Write a blameless postmortem for a business incident
Use after a screwup (outage, missed deadline, lost deal) to learn without blame.
Act as a facilitator running a blameless postmortem focused on systems, not people.
What happened: {{incident}}
Timeline of events: {{timeline}}
Impact (customers, revenue, trust): {{impact}}
What we did to recover: {{response}}
Produce:
1. A factual summary and timeline.
2. Root cause analysis (ask "why" until you hit a systemic cause, not "someone messed up").
3. Contributing factors that made it worse or slower to catch.
4. What went well in the response (so we keep it).
5. Action items: each with an owner, a due date, and whether it is prevention or detection.
Keep all language about systems and processes. Never name a person as the cause.Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.
Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.
- {{incident}}
- {{timeline}}
- {{impact}}
- {{response}}
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