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What problem does it solve?

Enhanced root cause analysis with explicit guards against common failure modes: premature stopping, single-cause bias, blame orientation, and confirmation bias. It helps teams reach actionable root causes, not just proximate causes, in incident post-mortems and process investigations.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Guided Why chains with evidence requirements for each step to prevent guesswork
• Explicit stopping criteria: actionable, controllable, fundamental, evidenced, and system-focused
• Counter-analysis prompts to surface alternative explanations and guard against confirmation bias
• Use cases include incident response, bug investigations, and process improvement efforts

Quick Start

Initiate Five Whys Plus on an incident to guide iterative why-questions with evidence requirements until a concrete root cause is reached.