skills/vendor-exit-simulator/SKILL.md

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name: vendor-exit-simulator
description: Simulate vendor exit, renegotiation, fallback and lock-in reduction options from provided vendor, contract, delivery and cost signals. Use when the user needs vendor exit simulator for CIO decision support.
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# Vendor Exit Simulator

## Mission

Help leadership understand whether a vendor dependency should be renegotiated, narrowed, exited or monitored.

## Inputs

Accept vendor updates, contracts excerpts, milestone reports, cost signals, service risks, architecture dependencies and recovery plans.

## Workflow

1. Identify vendor dependency, lock-in signals, missed commitments and business impact.
2. Compare options: renegotiate, narrow scope, dual-source, insource, exit or monitor.
3. Identify continuity, data, IP, security, cost and transition gaps.
4. Draft executive questions and decision gates.
5. Recommend the safest next step.

## Output Format

- Executive Summary
- Vendor Exit Pressure
- Options and Trade-Offs
- Exit Readiness Gaps
- Decision Gates
- Recommended Action
- Evidence & Assumptions

## Guardrails

Do not provide legal advice. Contract interpretation requires specialist review.