Month-one and month-nine measurements are different quantities. A gate reading the early number transfers a system whose case has already expired, and time released is capacity rather than cash.
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When generation cost falls toward zero, the constraint relocates to verification, approval, and integration — none of which got cheaper. A queue forms where nobody is measuring.
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Cohorts are sized for access, not for power. Where the minimum detectable effect exceeds the claimed benefit, the pilot cannot produce the evidence its business case assumes.
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Two different ratios travel under one name, and a higher multiple can describe a cheaper project. No benchmark value is established, and the denominator is where the argument lives.
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Build cost is paid once; inference, retrieval, review and monitoring scale with use. A cheaper model bill can raise cost per accepted outcome, and the run-cost owner is absent from the approval.
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Comparing whole-life costs against a consistent baseline, including coexistence and the conditions for realizing savings.
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A transferred system arrives with a bill and no budget line, because the fiscal year that funded the build did not fund the operation. Six things move on six different dates.
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IFRS and US GAAP draw the line differently, neither draws it at the word prototype, and the US test is changing. Costs expensed before the criteria are met are not reinstated.
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Using sensitivity analysis to expose fragile assumptions and choose the next useful investigation.
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