Whodunit
Real postmortems turned into murder mysteries to train on-call engineers
Claude or ChatGPT can turn any postmortem into this drill with one prompt.
Real postmortems turned into murder mysteries to train on-call engineers
Lessons from past outages stay buried in long postmortem documents that few people read closely. When an engineer meets the same failure at 3 a.m., they are learning it for the first time.
Whodunit rewrites real postmortems as murder-mystery scenarios that engineers solve together.
- 1Pick a real past incident from your postmortem archive
- 2Work through the clues with your team, one at a time
- 3Compare your reasoning with what actually happened
Why it failed
Check 2 · AI can do itAn SRE could paste a postmortem into Claude or ChatGPT with a 'turn this into an interactive murder-mystery incident drill' prompt and get the same outcome. The idea has no aggregate data, no cross-party trust, no network effect, and no non-technical buyer. whyNotAgent and payEvidence are empty, and the inspirations (Wheel of Misfortune) are free, DIY exercises.
What already exists
1 products checked- 01
Get three SRE teams to pay for it before building more.
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Add aggregate, cross-team data no single prompt could reproduce.
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Find a non-technical buyer, such as an engineering manager or training lead.
- Uncracked City, SpookBnB, Wheel of Misfortune
Uncracked City, SpookBnB, Wheel of Misfortune