# Pressure-test my recommendations before a client readout

The hardest questions each client stakeholder will ask, weak spots in the evidence, and how to strengthen them before presenting.

- Topic: Thinking & Decisions
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Fill-in Template
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## Prompt

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Pressure-test my recommendations before I present them to a client.

**Recommendations:** [LIST]
**Evidence behind each:** [DATA, interviews, benchmarks]
**Who will be in the room:** [ROLES, and what each cares about or stands to lose]
**What the client currently believes or has invested in:** [e.g. "the CEO championed the current system"]
**Implementation realities:** [budget, capability, timing constraints I know about]

For each recommendation, give me:
1. The toughest question each stakeholder is likely to ask, from their point of view (finance, operations, the sponsor, the skeptic).
2. Weaknesses in my logic or evidence: small samples, correlation treated as cause, missing alternatives, untested assumptions.
3. Implementation risks the client will raise: cost, disruption, people, time to value.
4. Who loses something if it goes ahead, and how that may show up as an objection.
5. What would make it stronger: extra analysis, a pilot, a phased version, or a reframe.

Then:
- Rank the recommendations from most to least defensible.
- Suggest a one-line answer for the three hardest questions.
- Tell me if any recommendation should be cut or softened before the meeting.

Be direct. Don't add facts about the client; if an answer depends on information I haven't given, say what I need to find out.
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## What to fill in

- LIST
- DATA, interviews, benchmarks
- ROLES, and what each cares about or stands to lose
- e.g. "the CEO championed the current system"
- budget, capability, timing constraints I know about

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