Build an interactive tool that helps teams evaluate how difficult, expensive, or disruptive it would be to reverse a major decision after implementation.
Allow users to describe a proposed decision, expected benefits, dependencies, implementation stages, contractual commitments, migration costs, and potential exit options.
Generate:
A decision dependency graph.
A reversibility assessment with explicit scoring criteria.
A breakdown of sunk costs versus future avoidable costs.
A scenario explorer for early, middle, and late reversal.
A detector for decisions that create irreversible downstream commitments.
A list of checkpoints that could preserve future options.
A comparison of phased rollout and full commitment strategies.
A decision memo documenting assumptions, risks, and exit conditions.
Do not treat sunk costs as recoverable simply because a decision is reversed. Separate known costs from estimates, explain the assumptions behind every scenario, and avoid presenting subjective reversibility scores as objective truth. Include a fictional software platform migration and a business expansion example.
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