STR.7:5.1 - SensorCo can obtain a sufficient negative answer without a trial
In this constructed case, SensorCo’s existing contracts can support current service for twelve months. Two of six interviewed customers may discuss a bounded paid service trial next quarter at a price ceiling, subject to agreement and permitted use. Six expressions of interest are not a market conversion estimate.
Before the Board’s next trial decision, four already-funded internal days can complete delivery costing from existing records and specify a possible trial. The work needs no new purchase or new customer-data use. The alternative use of those days is a device-diagnostic improvement.
The Board’s supplied criterion protects current service and reserve while seeking a repeat paid contribution less exposed to generic-inspection price competition. Under the stated conditions, costing can change whether the service is worth pursuing. The Board is willing to postpone the diagnostic work for that attainable answer. This justifies preparation, not yet trial execution or a twelve-month service direction.
The result branches are concrete:
| Attainable preparation result | Supported strategic return |
|---|---|
| Complete travel and incident-support costing shows no relevant permitted service configuration can cover cost at attainable customer terms | Recommend viable device-only continuation for this horizon without a trial |
| A feasible bounded configuration remains and an attainable trial could change the next commitment | Return the bounded trial design, full burden and missing authorizations for separate choice |
| A decisive cost component or required permitted-use answer is missing | Return that gap; do not treat the unknown as zero cost or permission |
A trial could later test the two consenting customers’ use and payment under their agreed terms and the specified delivery arrangement. It cannot establish general market demand or substitute for a required data-use determination. The four preparation days also do not approve the later eighteen-person-day development configuration.