War-game a push permission prompt before soft-ask timing, cohort ladders, and rollback steps harden into what every release will quote.
Push prompt programs fail when the runbook invents precision the OS never had, when allowlists dual-count the same cohort as opted-in and as exempt, when money-adjacent prompts still lack a named accuracy owner, and when growth cannot show who owns the decision after a partial prompt misfire. A neat permission PDF is not evidence.
Start with one frozen ladder
Write why the prompt exists, which platforms and product lines it covers, who owns soft-ask timing, logging, and rollback, and the abort trigger if denial rates or opt-out lag past a named threshold. Attach the draft ladder, cohort map, allowlist map, and the measured path from detection to corrected prompt. If growth, eng, and product disagree on which cohorts are truly covered, stop and reconcile first.
Name the decision you will make if the war game finds nothing new, and the delay criteria if any money path still lacks a named rollback owner or a verified canary cohort.
Who speaks
Growth should say where soft-ask timing invents coverage or hides shared rules across platforms. Engineering should say where bypasses still leave the binary and become standing exceptions. Product should say which partner decision breaks first when a legitimate prompt is denied. Support should show how status language trails the partner-visible complaint rate. A skeptic should pick the claim that looks strongest and is least evidenced by prior prompt drills.
Give every seat the same source pack. Secret allowlists for favorite campaigns only create fake calm. Require a canary cohort with a measured soft-ask-to-decision pass before any money path joins the ladder. If the canary still depends on a verbal allowlist, keep the change in hold.
Private loop
Feed Pingpong the draft ladder, canary notes, and open risk list. Early passes steelman the design. Later passes attack from growth, eng, product, support, and skeptic seats. End with a pass that turns surviving objections into clearer owners, a timed canary, or a hold. Delete invented "we already prompt cleanly" claims and dual-counted success rates.
Ask for a month-after narrative: what happens if a partner cohort denies at scale, if a billing prompt starts failing OS checks, or if an operator widens an allowlist under launch pressure. If those stories outrun the mitigation plan, fix the package before you ship the ladder.
Pair with the mobile ops lead seat, an app store review response review, a forced update gate stress test, and the war-game decisions hub.