One-Liner
A live deliverable-dependency dashboard for SME partners in EU Horizon/SNS-JU research consortia, tracking who depends on whom and auto-generating EU financial-reporting narratives.
AI Thinking Process
World-context bullet 10: Hexa-X-II Nokia lead + Ericsson tech manager + 44 orgs. D2.6, D3.5, D7.6 released 2025. Pain: SME consortium partners carry disproportionate deliverable-dependency + EU financial reporting overhead.
Pain grounding: SME consortium technical lead spends 8-12 hours/week on deliverable coordination — cross-checking dependency chains, formatting deliverables to EU commission templates, chasing partners on Teams, preparing financial-reporting narrative for partner cost claim. Bid-writing periods: 20+ hrs/week for 3-4 weeks.
Named incumbents: EU-project consultancies (Ayming, Enspire Science, Sigma Orionis, Zabala, Meta Group), grant-management platforms (GrantHub US-focused, InstruMentr), EU Horizon tools (Zenodo, EU F&T Portal). No productized ops tool for live-project deliverable coordination. Middle phase (deliverable coordination during 3-4 year project) is SharePoint + Excel + Nokia/Ericsson PMO.
G207 fires hard: SNS-JU SME partners = 300-900 × €3K = €2.7M ceiling. Broader Horizon Europe = maybe €10M but sales cycle is per-consortium (Nokia lead must approve third-party tool).
G064 concern: consortium bids and phase transitions are cyclical events. Between projects the tool goes idle. Consulting shape not SaaS shape.
Verb Transplant: 'commit-graph' from GitHub → SNS-JU deliverable dependency graph. Every deliverable is a node, every dependency is an edge. Attractive UX but Nokia already runs PMO as billable overhead and won't adopt a tool that makes its own delivery-timing slippage visible to SME partners.
structural adoption barrier variant: SME needs Nokia's goodwill for the next consortium bid. An SME will not adopt a tool that surfaces Nokia's own slippage to EU Commission project officers. The 'referee' role has no willing customer. Fatal.
KILLED. Kill reasons FUNDAMENTAL: TAM ceiling €3M × G064 cyclical consumption × structural adoption barrier (SMEs won't referee Nokia they depend on) × Nokia/Ericsson runs consortium-ops as billable overhead and resists third-party tooling. No positional pivot available.
Kill Reason
TAM ceiling ~€2.7M ARR (SNS-JU SMEs only) or at best €10M after broadening to all Horizon Europe SMEs — both below the minimum viable SaaS gate. Additionally: Nokia and Ericsson run consortium coordination as billable overhead and will resist third-party tooling. SMEs won’t adopt a referee tool against their lead partner (Nokia) whose goodwill they need for the next consortium bid — a structural ‘structural adoption barrier’ variant. Additionally, tools targeting cyclical project-based work face idle periods between active phases, making sustained subscription revenue structurally difficult.
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