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Build-or-buy assessment
The written comparison between building a system, licensing one, and doing neither. An assessment produced by the party who would build it is worth reading only if it contains a real case for the alternatives.
Common causes
Assessments scoped by the intended builder, with the operating cost of the build understated by the share nobody plans for.
What good looks like
A modelled operating cost on both sides, a named decision owner, and an explicit recommendation — including "do neither" where that is the answer.
Nearby terms
Term set: the build vocabulary. Capital-markets terms are defined on gda.group; agent-economy terms on flashygroup.com. One term, one home.