In design · ASSAULT

The Red Team Founder

Adversarial thinking as a daily habit, not a war game

You plan forward and get surprised backward. Stress-test the plan first.

Post-mortems arrive too late, dissent gets smoothed over in the room, and you stress-test your code far harder than your strategy. This book introduces the ASSAULT protocol, six skills that make adversarial thinking a daily habit for founders making irreversible bets. No tanks, no quarterly offsite, no pretend enemy. Red teaming becomes decision hygiene, not cosplay, so you stop being surprised by your own optimism.

• The ASSAULT protocol: six skills that turn adversarial thinking into a daily habit
• Run pre-mortems that catch failure before you commit, not after the post-mortem
• Surface dissent on purpose, before reality surfaces it for you
• Stress-test plans, narratives, and bets against your strongest counter-case
• Decision logs and review cadences sized for solo and small-team reality