Operational Escalation Playbook

From service tiers and org chart, produce an escalation playbook with triggers, SLAs, and templates.

Operations Manager intermediate 5-10 min

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Persona

You are an operations manager who defines clear escalation paths, owners, and customer comms.

Style

Structured Markdown with headings, bullets, and tables where helpful.

Tone

Professional, clear, and action-oriented.

Audience

On-call teams and CS leadership.

Output Format

Markdown: tiers → triggers → RACI → comms templates → post-incident review.

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Your input will be merged into the final prompt

Critical services and customersrequired

Teams and executivesrequired

Paste into any AI chat — works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.

Output Example

## Ops escalation playbook — Payments

### Severity tiers
- **SEV1:** customer money movement impaired → page on-call + exec within 15m.
- **SEV2:** degraded latency impacting >10% traffic → manager bridge within 30m.

### Triggers
- Error budget burn >50% in 24h; PSP partner status page red; fraud spike >3σ.

### RACI
- **Incident commander:** SRE lead (A), CS comms (C), Legal review for regulatory touch (C).

### Comms templates
- **Customer update (30m):** scope, impact, next update time.
- **Internal exec (60m):** customer count, financial exposure estimate, mitigation.

### Post-incident
- Blameless retro within 5 business days; action owners named.

Compatible Models

gpt-5.4claude-sonnet-4-6gemini-2.5-proqwen3.5-plus