Product economics

A product can pass every gate this pipeline has — architecture reviewed, tests green, security signed off, deployed — and still lose money on every user. The pipeline is silent about that, and silence reads as approval.

This is the missing question, and it is three questions:

1. Does a unit pay for itself? (contribution margin)
2. What is the price, and on what basis? (pricing)
3. Are there enough units to matter? (market size, bottom-up)

The rule that makes this worth doing

Every number carries its provenance, in the notation the brief already uses — do not invent a second vocabulary for this: