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Orchestration New Product Launch Gate Review

Launch Readiness Checker

Launches fail when a gate closes before the team is truly ready. This skill runs all five readiness domains and gives you a gate status with action owners. Design → Process → Tooling → Supply Chain → Quality. Know exactly what's open before you commit to a launch date.

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Buy Now · $29 → What you get ↓
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Design Review
design readiness
→
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Process Readiness
VSM + standard work
→
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Tooling
tooling qualification
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Supply Chain
supplier + lead time
→
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Quality
FMEA + control plan

What You Get

Five deliverables from one gate review

The skill checks all five readiness domains in one session and synthesizes the results into an integrated gate report, not five separate checklists that leave the GO/HOLD decision up to a spreadsheet.

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Gate Status Report
Overall gate (GO / CONDITIONAL GO / HOLD) with the specific items blocking or conditioning each domain.
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Open Items Register
Every unresolved item from all five domains, with owner, due date, and severity: launch-blocking vs. risk-accepted.
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Conditional Launch Plan
If any domain is CONDITIONAL GO, the plan for resolving conditions before or alongside launch, with milestones and owners.
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First-Production Checklist
The day-of-launch verification list, derived from open items and quality gate outputs so nothing is invented from scratch on the floor.
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Launch Risk Summary
Ranked risks not yet mitigated, with probability, impact, and owner. For leadership review before sign-off.

Why It Matters

Gate reviews that actually gate

"Gate reviews that say yes because of schedule pressure, not readiness"
The skill asks the readiness questions regardless of the launch date. If the answer is HOLD, the report says HOLD and names exactly what needs to change before it becomes GO.
"Open items that aren't visible until day one"
The open items register is the single list that replaces email threads and meeting notes. Every domain's unresolved items are in one place, with a named owner and a due date.
"First article and FMEA status out of sync"
The quality domain check aligns FMEA, control plan, and first article status before sign-off, so the gate closes with all three confirmed, not assumed.

How It Works

Describe the launch. The skill runs the gate.

The Launch Readiness Checker is a single SKILL.md file with a built-in orchestration layer. You describe the product or process being launched, and the skill steps through each domain, surfacing the right questions, flagging gaps, and assembling the results into an integrated gate report with a clear status and an action-owned open items list.

Works at any stage of launch preparation

Run it early as a readiness gap analysis to find what needs work before the gate. Run it at the gate as the formal review record. The output format is the same. The gap count changes.

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