The 2026 Solo Creator’s Tool Stack ‘Cognitive Fragility Score’: A Quantitative Model for Measuring and Mitigating the Risk of System-Wide Failure from a Single Tool’s Downtime
The Cognitive Fragility Score (CFS) is a quantitative model that measures how a single tool's failure can cause disproportionate cognitive overload and operational paralysis for solo creators. It assesses centrality, switching cost, and restoration time to identify high-risk dependencies.