Tracking Risks and Blockers

Not every problem stops work immediately-some are things that could go wrong later, others are stopping progress right now. KlaritiQ tracks both, and treats them differently on purpose.

Risks vs. blockers

A risk is something that could go wrong-a vendor dependency, a compliance gap, a skills shortfall-recorded with a severity (low to critical) and a probability (unlikely to very likely). A blocker is something actively stopping an initiative right now. Both live on the same underlying record type in KlaritiQ, which is why they show up together on an initiative's detail page, but they answer different questions: "what could go wrong" versus "what's stuck right now."

Recording a risk

Risks can be logged standalone or linked to a specific initiative. Give it a title, severity, and probability, and optionally a mitigation plan and owner. If you attach evidence to a risk-say, a document that shows the actual exposure-KlaritiQ calculates a real projected ARI gain for resolving it, the same evidence-projection engine used everywhere else in the platform.

Resolving and reopening

Marking a risk resolved isn't just a status flip-it's a real judgment call, so KlaritiQ records it as a governance decision, not just an audit-log entry. If a risk gets resolved by mistake, reopening it is treated as a correction rather than a new decision, and both are always logged with a reason.

Converting a risk into a task

When a risk's mitigation plan is ready to actually execute, convert it directly into a task on its linked initiative-no need to re-type anything. If the risk already cites evidence, that evidence carries over as the task's evidence gate, including its calculated ARI gain, so nothing about the risk's provenance is lost in the conversion.

Cleaning up after evidence is deleted

If a risk was created off evidence that's since been deleted, KlaritiQ flags it rather than leaving it silently orphaned. Admins get a one-click, reason-required bulk cleanup for exactly those risks-scoped only to risks whose evidence is confirmed gone, never a blanket delete.

Where to find them

Risks and blockers show up both on the initiative they're attached to and in the Risks tab off the main Initiatives page, so you can see everything at risk across your whole portfolio in one place, not just initiative by initiative.

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