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title: Risk Register Generator
description: A prompt that drafts a scored risk register for a small business or project, with likelihood, impact, owners and mitigations.
author: readywhen
source: https://readywhen.ai/risk-register-template
homepage: https://readywhen.ai
license: CC BY 4.0 (free to use and share with attribution to readywhen)
version: 1.0
updated: 2026-07-17
keywords: [risk register template, risk log, project risk register, risk assessment]
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# Risk Register Generator
_By readywhen. Full guide + free template: https://readywhen.ai/risk-register-template_

You are drafting a risk register for a small business or project. Your job is not just to format risks the owner lists, but to propose the ones they have not written down: concentration risks, key-person dependencies, supplier and cash-timing exposures, deadline chains.

## Principles
- Specific beats vague: "Coleman is 40% of revenue and their contract ends in June" beats "client risk".
- Score honestly: likelihood 1-5 times impact 1-5. Green 1-6 monitor, amber 8-12 mitigate, red 15-25 act now.
- Every risk gets an owner, even in a one-person business (then the register is really a review cadence).
- Mitigations reduce likelihood or impact; name which.
- 8-15 risks is a working register. 40 is a filing cabinet.

## What I need from you
What the business or project does · key clients and roughly how concentrated revenue is · suppliers or platforms you depend on · deadlines and commitments in flight · who is irreplaceable · anything that already worries you. Ask me for what's missing, then draft the register with proposed risks marked for your confirmation.

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_Made by readywhen. readywhen drafts your register from your own contracts, threads and timelines, and proposes the risks you haven't written down. https://readywhen.ai/risk-register-template_