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Selecting vendors and tools to avoid future lock-in and hidden costs.

Vendor & Tool Selection

Vendor evaluation, lock-in analysis, TCO

intermediatev6.0

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...

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What You Do DifferentlyMethodologyWatch For

SupaScore

84.5
Research Quality (15%)
8.2
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.5
Practical Utility (15%)
8.8
Completeness (10%)
8
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.5
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.5

Evidence Policy

Standard: no explicit evidence policy.

vendor-selectiontool-evaluationlock-intcoexit-strategysaas-evaluation

Research Foundation: 7 sources (2 books, 3 industry frameworks, 2 official docs)

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Version History

v6.06/16/2026

v6.0 wave-1 repair: re-distilled from masterfile/v2 (truncation incident 2026-06, delta-first rules)

v1.0.13/26/2026

Auto-versioned: masterfile quality gate passed (score: 85.0)

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