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SRIS Today: a greeting with the producer's panda, 430 stars and level 7, and a two-week calendar of decisions and reviews.TodayWhat needs you, and the next two weeks.A risk on one page: cause, event and effect, how bad it has been over time, and what we are doing about it.A risk, on one pageHow bad, over time, and what we are doing.The team risk radar with items placed by urgency, and the exposure picture by severity.Risk radarExposure at a glance, at your level.What needs you: 5 decisions waiting, 1 thing blocked and 1 to check, with the decisions listed by urgency.What needs youDecide, unblock, check.A producer writes one sentence. The Studio Brain proposes an 'If … then …' risk statement for them to confirm.Studio BrainSay it however it comes out.The producer's panda: Steady Producer, level 7, 430 stars, with medals and trophies earned.Your pandaStars that are only ever added.

Studio Risk Intelligence System · in development

Room to breathe and think.

A calm, private place for senior producers to see what threatens delivery, decide what to do, and keep an honest record of it.

  • One honest record, at the level you lead. Project, Programme and Portfolio stay distinct.
  • Liam's knowledge, working in the background. The Studio Brain suggests. You decide.
  • Built on the Studio Risk Foundations method that we teach studios.

A work in progress, built in the open. We are looking for a small group of pilot studios to shape it with us.

Apply for the pilot →See how it works
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How it works

From a worry to a decision on record.

Capture

Get a worry down in one step, before it is lost.

A producer writes one sentence. The Studio Brain proposes an 'If … then …' risk statement for them to confirm.
Say it however it comes out. Illustration from our test studio. Made-up data.

Assess

Judge it on clear scales, with your evidence and your confidence.

Risk score history from High to Extreme, a Low target, and the response to reduce the risk.
Risk score history and response, cropped to show the assessment. Illustration from our test studio. Made-up data.

Respond and decide

One plan per risk, and decisions that stay on record.

What needs you: 5 decisions waiting, 1 thing blocked and 1 to check, with the decisions listed by urgency.
Decide, unblock, check. Illustration from our test studio. Made-up data.

Stay on top

See what needs you today, and what changed since you last looked.

SRIS Today: a greeting with the producer's panda, 430 stars and level 7, and a two-week calendar of decisions and reviews.
What needs you, and the next two weeks. Illustration from our test studio. Made-up data.

See across teams

Team, Programme and Portfolio, each with its own view.

How two programmes and eight teams connect, with six dependencies on track, at risk or blocked.
How the programmes and teams connect. Illustration from our test studio. Made-up data.

How it fits together

One studio. Every level. Each person sees their part.

SRIS holds your studio's real shape: products, the programmes that deliver them, and the teams inside. Pick your role to see where you work.

↑ Decisions go up, with a reasonAnswers come back down ↓
Portfolioproducts and the business
Skyward OrchardliveEmber Atlasin productionLive economy refreshinitiative
Programme of programmesa game or a discipline
Studio deliveryparent programmeArtdiscipline programme
Programmeteams that depend on each other
Skyward Orchard LiveEmber Atlas LaunchShared services
Teameach in its own tool
GameplayLive OpsEnginein 2 programmesArtAudioQA

You see the products and the business.

  • Confidence and exposure for each product, and how they have moved.
  • One shared problem, linked to every programme or studio it touches.
  • Decisions waiting for leadership, and how long they have waited.
  • Initiatives: the investments that protect or grow each product.

A made-up studio. Products link to every programme that delivers them; a team can sit in more than one programme.

For the people who carry the whole picture.

Studio leaders and executivesYou oversee several products, studios or leadership teams.For studio leaders →Executive producers and directorsA game, or a discipline, across several programmes.For executive producers →Senior and lead producersFive or six teams to make sense of, in one studio.For lead producers →Small studio foundersYou make the game and run the business.For small studios →Co-development and outsourcing leadersYou deliver on someone else's product.For co-development →

Help us shape SRIS.

We are looking for a small, varied group of studios. You get a private SRIS site, Liam's support and a real say in what we build next. We ask for honest use and honest feedback.

Apply for the pilot →

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