Decide whether more inquiry is worth doing

STR.7 first uses available incident records and complete travel-and-support costing. If sufficient costing shows that no feasible bounded service configuration can cover delivery cost at the customers’ acceptable price, the useful return is device-only continuation without a trial. Missing a cost component is instead an unresolved comparison.

If a feasible trial remains and its possible results can change the commitment enough to warrant its burden, design the bounded trial. Its question concerns the two consenting customers’ use and payment for the specified service and the bounded arrangement’s ability to deliver it. It cannot establish general market demand.

Participant agreement, permitted use, exposure, actual resources, interpretation and closure must be established before the dependent work. An experiment on customer data cannot answer whether that use is permitted. The four-day preparation does not itself authorize execution.