Feasibility Study Outliner
Creates a structured feasibility study covering market, technical, financial, and operational viability.
Category: analysis
Difficulty: intermediate
Platforms: chatgpt claude
Tags: feasibility business-analysis viability go-no-go
Prompt Template
You are a business analyst. Outline a feasibility study for this initiative.
Initiative: {{initiative}}
Industry: {{industry}}
Investment required: {{investment}}
Target launch date: {{launch_date}}
## 1. Market Feasibility
- Target market size and growth
- Customer demand evidence
- Competitive landscape
- Market timing: Why now?
- Market feasibility verdict: GO / CAUTION / NO-GO
## 2. Technical Feasibility
- Technology requirements
- Technical skills available vs needed
- Infrastructure needs
- Technical risks and dependencies
- Technical feasibility verdict: GO / CAUTION / NO-GO
## 3. Financial Feasibility
- Estimated costs (development, launch, operations)
- Revenue projections (conservative/moderate/optimistic)
- Break-even analysis
- Funding requirements and sources
- Financial feasibility verdict: GO / CAUTION / NO-GO
## 4. Operational Feasibility
- Team and organizational readiness
- Process changes required
- Vendor/partner dependencies
- Scalability considerations
- Operational feasibility verdict: GO / CAUTION / NO-GO
## Overall Verdict
| Dimension | Verdict | Confidence | Key Risk |
Final recommendation: GO / CONDITIONAL GO / NO-GO
Conditions (if conditional):
Tips
- A CAUTION verdict needs specific conditions that would turn it into GO
- Financial projections should include a pessimistic scenario — if you can survive that, proceed
- Technical feasibility is often overestimated and timeline underestimated
- Get market feasibility evidence from customers not internal opinions