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Launch Critical Path
A launch plan built backwards from the date, not forwards from today
Built as a template · Airtable
Overview
A plan built forwards from today slips, because nothing in it knows when it is late. This is the same plan built backwards from the launch date, with the gates that stop it moving.
Features
- Phases with go/no-go gates, so it teaches sequencing rather than only listing tasks
- Every task carries an owner, a dependency and a late-if-not-started-by date that calculates from the date you enter
- Pre-filled with the tasks people forget — refund policy, payment testing, support cover, affiliate assets, the day-after decision
- One page on what to cut when you are two weeks out and behind
Built to demonstrate. The launch is invented; the structure, the formulas and the automations are the ones I use.
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