Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, that's actually the idea. If we & the client think at any point that it's not worth pursuing it, we stop the process (hence the

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, that's actually the idea. If we & the client think at any point that it's not worth pursuing it, we stop the process (hence the "under $10,000", not "exactly $10,000"). I absolutely feel that the initial part (taking apart the idea, probing it, trying to see if it makes sense, trying to prove it via experiments/testing/user interviews) brings more value than the implementation part. If we spend, say $2,000 out of the whole budget proving that, say, the market isn't there, we've just saved $8,000 to the client which they can use for other ideas (or to modify/pivot the original one).