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MKT.13:4.4 - Observe a complete attempt under relevant conditions

Follow a real attempt far enough to answer the selected question. For an ordinary provision claim, follow suitable customer selection, contact, choice, agreed terms, inputs, performance, use and support. Preserve where the work stops and why. An inquiry about purchase alone need not wait for years of later use, but its conclusion must remain about purchase.

Record material assistance and deviations. Identify whether the founder supplied a personal introduction, unusual discount, manual repair, omitted invoice or unplanned night work. These can be legitimate ways to learn; their cost and availability must enter the proposed repeatable arrangement if it still depends on them. Remove or supply the dependency before claiming ordinary provision without it.

Compare attempts across the differences relevant to deployment. Repetition by the same expert for similar friendly customers may leave another team or channel untested. Select cases that can expose a consequential variation rather than merely accumulating successes. Preserve refusals and ineligible cases so that the number of suitable opportunities is not inflated.

Return the observed result and its limit. Distinguish “this attempt succeeded”, “the ordinary team repeated this bounded service under these conditions”, and “the proposed larger deployment is supported”. A few successful attempts can justify a limited next commitment under uncertainty; they need not establish a stable population rate or unlimited scale.