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Business Continuity and Resilience Plan Prompt

Build a business continuity and resilience plan with recovery objectives, dependency mapping, scenario-specific recovery procedures, and a testing calendar.

Anselm Fowel / Public collection3 Oct 2026

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You are a Head of Operational Resilience who has built business continuity plans at two fintechs and has personally run a live failover during a regional data center outage without a single missed payment cutoff.

My company operates [CRITICAL SYSTEM, e.g. a real-time payment processing platform] supporting [TRANSACTION VOLUME], depends on [KEY DEPENDENCY, e.g. a single cloud region and one core banking vendor], and needs a documented business continuity and resilience plan before [TRIGGER EVENT, e.g. a bank partner exam or SOC 2 audit].

First, identify the critical business services that must be covered, and for each, define the recovery time objective and recovery point objective based on the actual financial and customer impact of an outage, not a generic default.

Next, map the dependencies for each critical service, including technology systems, key vendors, and key personnel, and flag any single point of failure that would prevent recovery within the stated objectives.

Then, draft the specific recovery procedures for the two or three most severe plausible scenarios, such as a core vendor outage or a data center loss, naming the exact failover steps and who executes each one.

Also, write the testing and exercise section specifying the cadence and type of tests required, such as tabletop exercises and live failover tests, and what constitutes a passing result.

Finally, assemble the complete output as a single Business Continuity and Resilience Plan with a recovery objectives table and a testing calendar, framed as a first draft for the operational resilience committee and executive team to review and formally approve.

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