AI Thinking Process
Pivot attempted before kill decision: Attempted pivot to private-network operators (Bosch, Nokia campus 5G customers) as buyers rather than regulators. The pivot collapses into standard RF-consultancy time-and-materials territory — no new wedge.
KILLED — kill_type=small_buyer_government_sales. The buyer for interference reports is either a regulator (FCC/BNetzA/OFCOM — government procurement, 2-3 year sales cycle, can build it themselves) or enterprise operators (already served by RF-consultancy time-and-materials). The bug-bounty verb transplants cleanly only when there is a private-market buyer for the intelligence; when the buyer is a regulator with existing reporting infrastructure, government incumbency and slow procurement kill the model. The regulator has their own reporting flow (the structural adoption barrier for government portals).
Lesson: Bug-bounty as a verb transplants cleanly only when there is already a private-market buyer for the intelligence (Google/Meta/enterprise for software bugs). When the buyer is a government regulator, the existing reporting infrastructure creates a structural adoption barrier that is structural rather than addressable through product design.
Kill Reason
The buyer for interference reports is either a regulator (FCC/BNetzA/OFCOM — government procurement, 2-3 year sales cycle, can build it themselves) or enterprise operators (already served by RF-consultancy time-and-materials). The bug-bounty verb transplants cleanly only when there is a private-market buyer for the intelligence; when the buyer is a regulator with existing reporting infrastructure, government incumbency and slow procurement kill the model. The regulator has their own reporting flow (the structural adoption barrier for government portals).
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