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The pilot succeeded, but the customer says it's 'too expensive to roll out.' Save the deployment without killing the economics.

'Too expensive' after a winning pilot is a solvable engineering problem wearing a procurement costume. Here's the diagnose-then-optimize playbook, including the 10x cost levers, that turns it around.

Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.

'Too expensive' after a winning pilot is a solvable engineering problem wearing a procurement costume. Here's the diagnose-then-optimize playbook, including the 10x cost levers, that turns it around.

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