The report is finished. Now get it to them.

Automation projects are scoped as if delivery were the easy part. It is routinely the part that kills them. You have the numbers, the summary, the schedule — and twenty counterparties who all read one messenger, on their phones, in a market where that messenger is the business. Everything upstream is engineering. The last mile is somebody else's product decision. State what you cannot give up, and watch the options rule themselves out.

Honest-AI note. No model, and deliberately no vendor names — products change, and the point is the shape of the constraint, which doesn't. Each channel below is a real attempt with a real outcome: one abandoned after a deterministic crash behind a closed layer, one built and verified and then parked for a reason no code fixes, one shipping in production, one priced and declined, one that always works and nobody reads. The verdict strip is solved live from the matrix at the bottom, so the page cannot claim a trade-off the table doesn't support.