Business Continuity Planner

Create detailed business continuity and disaster recovery plans by mapping critical functions, setting recovery objectives, assessing risks, and generating c...

Build a complete Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for any organization.

What It Does

• Maps critical business functions and their dependencies
• Assigns Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
• Creates communication chains and escalation paths
• Generates a full BCP document ready for stakeholder sign-off
• Identifies single points of failure before they break

How to Use

Tell the agent about your business and it will walk you through building a BCP:

"Create a business continuity plan for our 40-person SaaS company"
"We need a disaster recovery plan — our main systems are AWS-hosted"
"Map our critical functions and set RTOs for each"

Process

1. Business Impact Analysis

Ask the user about:

• Core revenue-generating functions
• Customer-facing systems
• Internal operations (payroll, comms, data)
• Key vendors and third-party dependencies

For each function, determine:

• Impact of downtime (revenue loss per hour, contractual penalties, reputation damage)
• RTO — how fast must it recover? (minutes, hours, days)
• RPO — how much data loss is acceptable?

2. Risk Assessment

Identify threats across categories:

• Technology: server failure, cyberattack, data corruption, cloud outage
• People: key person risk, mass absence, skills gap
• Facilities: office access, power, connectivity
• Supply chain: vendor failure, payment disruption
• External: regulatory change, natural disaster, pandemic

Rate each: Likelihood (1-5) × Impact (1-5) = Risk Score

3. Recovery Strategies

For each critical function, define:

• Primary recovery method
• Backup/alternative approach
• Manual workaround (if systems are down)
• Responsible person + backup person
• Dependencies that must recover first

4. Communication Plan

Build a contact tree:

• Crisis management team (names, roles, phone numbers)
• Escalation triggers (what constitutes a crisis?)
• Internal notification sequence
• External stakeholder communication (clients, vendors, regulators)
• Media/PR response template

5. BCP Document Output

Generate a structured document with:

# Business Continuity Plan — [Company Name]
## Version: 1.0 | Last Updated: [Date] | Next Review: [Date + 6 months]

### 1. Purpose & Scope
### 2. Business Impact Analysis (table)
### 3. Risk Register (table with scores)
### 4. Recovery Strategies (per function)
### 5. Communication Plan & Contact Tree
### 6. IT Disaster Recovery Procedures
### 7. Testing Schedule (tabletop exercises quarterly, full test annually)
### 8. Document Control & Review Cycle

6. Testing & Maintenance

Recommend:

• Tabletop exercise quarterly — walk through a scenario verbally
• Simulation test bi-annually — actually invoke recovery procedures
• Full DR test annually — failover to backup systems
• Review trigger: after any real incident, org change, or new system deployment

Output Format

Deliver the BCP as a single markdown document the user can save, print, or convert to PDF. Include tables for the Business Impact Analysis and Risk Register.

Tips

• Start with the functions that make money. Everything else is secondary.
• A plan that exists but hasn't been tested is just a document, not a plan.
• The #1 cause of extended outages isn't technical failure — it's nobody knowing who to call.
• Keep it practical. A 5-page plan people actually read beats a 50-page plan nobody opens.