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Catastrophe Cost Calculator

Services
AI Workflow Design, Cognitive Systems, Product Thinking
Category
Mental Model Tool
Client
Built for anxious brains & probability skeptics
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Most anxious thoughts arrive without context. A delayed email becomes unemployment. A mistake becomes catastrophe. Catastrophe Cost Calculator breaks fears into probability, impact, recovery cost and actual risk.

Not every disaster deserves a panic response. Some are expensive. Some are inconvenient. Some only exist in imagination. This tool helps separate emotional forecasts from reality.

The accounting department for anxious thoughts 📊

Users enter:

  • worst-case scenario
  • probability estimate
  • emotional impact
  • recovery difficulty
  • real-world cost

AI returns:

🟢 Actual risk 🟡 Emotional amplification 🔴 Catastrophe inflation score

Not every fire is a wildfire

Example:

Scenario: "I sent the wrong message."

Result:

Probability of total social collapse: Low

Estimated embarrassment duration: 48 hours

Recovery cost: Coffee + apology

Catastrophe inflation detected.