Ground Truth
Tagged feasibility
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You Are Buying Verdicts, Not Prototypes: Price The Decision, Not The Build
When a team buys rapid prototyping, the thing they actually need is a decision: build this or do not. The cost of a wrong keep, carrying a bad idea into a full build, exceeds the cost of the prototype by a large multiple. That makes the prototype instrumentation for a verdict rather than a deliverable in itself, and it changes how the engagement should be scoped, priced and ended.
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Two Paths Through the First Gate
When nobody knows whether a critical fact is true, shape the engagement so that both answers lead to a working product. One monitoring project did not know whether a controller could be read at all, so it was structured to decode the controller directly if yes and to instrument the surrounding physical signals if no. Neither answer stranded the capital.