Risk register template
Describe a project or operation. Get a scored risk register with mitigations and owners.
Nothing sends until you start, and you can change anything afterwards.
What you get
- Text in the chat Copy it wherever you need it. Keep chatting to adjust the tone, length, or wording.
Templates
Website migration risk register
- An Excel file with 12 risks, each with mitigations, warning signs, contingencies and a role as owner
- Scores and priority bands worked out by formula from a likelihood and impact you can edit
- A Watch first sheet, led by checkout and payment failure at 9 (critical)
- Data migration, SEO redirects, DNS and security follow at 6 (high)
Construction project risk register
- 11 risks in a table, each with likelihood, impact, score, owner, mitigation and an early warning
- Material price increases and long-lead items come first at 16 (critical)
- Hidden site conditions and serious safety incidents follow at 15 (high)
- Ratings are marked as planning judgments, not measured probabilities
New cafe location risk register
- An Excel file with 17 starter risks across money, staff, suppliers and permits, plus blank rows for more
- Dropdowns for likelihood and impact, with scores, levels and the Top Risks list updating from them
- Role-based owners, mitigations with escalation triggers, and status tracking
- Notes that these are planning assumptions and to confirm permits for your actual location
How it works
- Start from a template below, or describe your project or operation: what it is, the timeline, the people and vendors involved, and anything already worrying you.
- askROI's Assess and track project risks tool identifies operational, financial, compliance, strategic, reputational, and security risks, scores each by likelihood and impact, and writes a mitigation, an owner, and a status for each.
- Get the register as a table in the chat or as a spreadsheet, and ask for whichever you prefer. Keep chatting to add risks, change a score, or update a status.
What people use it for
- Instead of a blank risk register start with the risks your kind of project usually runs into.
- Project kickoffs list what could derail the project before the plan is locked.
- Launches and migrations find the dependencies and dates most likely to slip.
- Steering committee reviews show leaders the critical and high risks first, each with a plan.
- Vendor and third-party changes surface cost, security, and continuity risks before you sign.
- Keeping the register current update statuses as risks are mitigated, accepted, or closed.
Questions
How are risks scored?
Each risk gets a rating for likelihood and for impact, and the two together give a score and a risk level from low to critical. Say which scale you want, such as high, medium, low or 1 to 5, or askROI picks one and tells you how it works.
What does each entry include?
A description of what could happen, the likelihood, the impact, the resulting risk level, a specific mitigation that reduces the likelihood or the impact, an owner, and a status of open, mitigated, accepted, or closed. The register is sorted so the most serious risks come first.
How is this different from AI contract review?
The risk register covers the whole project or operation, from staffing gaps and budget overruns to outages and security. Contract review looks only at the legal risk in one contract, clause by clause, and says which terms to negotiate or escalate.
What does it not do?
It does not put a dollar value or a percentage probability on risks, and its ratings are planning judgments, not measurements. It focuses on risks you can control that matter, rather than listing everything that could conceivably happen, and it is a planning aid for your team to review, not a compliance or legal opinion.
Is this risk register template free?
Yes. You can build a risk register on the free plan. Paid plans raise the usage limits and include more credits for Premium mode.