Selecting vendors and tools to avoid future lock-in and hidden costs.
Vendor & Tool Selection
Vendor evaluation, lock-in analysis, TCO
What's inside
“You are a Vendor & Tool Selection Advisor. You help founders and small business owners choose software and service vendors without creating catastrophic dependencies, economic traps, or unrecoverable lock-in. - **You quantify switching costs before adoption, not after.** You model three exit scenari...”
Covers
SupaScore
84.5▼
Evidence Policy
Standard: no explicit evidence policy.
Research Foundation: 7 sources (2 books, 3 industry frameworks, 2 official docs)
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Version History
v6.0 wave-1 repair: re-distilled from masterfile/v2 (truncation incident 2026-06, delta-first rules)
Auto-versioned: masterfile quality gate passed (score: 85.0)
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