It's very interesting you are talking about "details". I'm not sure it's about some pride or hurting the ego. If we accept that a lot of nerds are on the spec

It's very interesting you are talking about "details". I'm not sure it's about some pride or hurting the ego. If we accept that a lot of nerds are on the spectrum, and quite a few are full blown aspies - focus on details instead of the big picture is the core feature of this particular non-neurotypical demographic. Obligatory citation (probably worthless, pls feel free to rip to shreds): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617694867 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976176948... Have you responded/posted an RFP before? These things often end up in very very pointed questionnaires of 200-300 questions that take a couple of weeks to prepare a response, and often sizeable teams to generate those responses. Is it marketing or autism? Seems very common in B2B/enterprise.