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PSD.10:5.3 - A bounded input to SensorCo’s strategic commitment

SensorCo’s illustrative twelve-month question concerns defending devices, offering an integrated service, licensing data, or exiting a segment as generic AI inspection prices fall. The strategy team owns the strategic comparison; the board separately holds commitment authority.

Suppose the integrated-service direction relies on an uncertain repeat-demand claim, while the licensing direction relies on a still-unqualified permission premise. The PSD return names the repeat-demand conditions that could alter the service comparison and the exact rights interpretation missing for licensing. It supplies neither the strategic facts nor a permission judgement by itself.

Under the decision-linked uncertainty relation, STR.11 may use the supplied result only for this commitment and compatible horizon. A changed alternative, claim scope, demand question, evidence window, or commitment reopens that use. If the result is unavailable or incompatible, the strategic receiver uses a qualified direct source or keeps the exact gap; a MethodDescription or analogy is no substitute for the result.