Succession risk is easy to see in hindsight and easy to miss proactively — systematic scanning surfaces it before a departure forces the issue.
Every flagged role is reviewed by a manager before a capture effort is initiated — this pattern only flags, it never initiates capture itself.
Initiate an Expert Interview series without a human deciding to act on the flag first — unprompted outreach to an employee about their own succession risk is not this pattern's role.
Role tenure data; documentation-coverage ratio; single-point-of-failure signals
A Succession Risk Record
The domain supports the pattern and no vendor in this model sells it. That is a statement about the market rather than about the pattern; v_agent_gaps lists them.