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Open with the business problem, not a list of screens. Which people will use the system, how many times a day, and how is the job done today? An experienced team who understands the goal often proposes a cheaper route to it; a team that receives only a feature list can only price the list as written.



Define what is included as short scenarios: a walk through each important path. Equally important, write down what the first release deliberately excludes. An explicit list of exclusions prevents more argument at delivery time than any other single page. Mark too which decisions are settled and which may still change — honest teams price those differently, and hiding it helps no one.



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Finally, say what you expect back. Require an itemised estimate, the assumptions behind each number, the main risks and a range rather than a single figure. Take a broad range as useful information rather than evasion:  [[https://webparadox.com/technologies/ai-development/|ai developers for hire]] it usually points to where your description is thin. Then tighten that section and ask again — the second estimate is far closer to reality.