Commitment Audit for Boutique Software Agencies

A pre-send commitment audit for boutique software agencies that reviews proposals, SOWs, and estimates for unsupported promises before they reach the client. Instead of predicting eventual project profitability, the product identifies immediate, objective failure modes in the artifact itself: conclusions not supported by stated scope, missing exclusions, contradictory assumptions, timeline claims without dependency coverage, and confidence language that outruns the evidence provided. The agency submits the outbound document plus a compact constraint sheet covering team shape, delivery model, known unknowns, excluded work, and acceptable certainty range. AE runs adversarial debate over the commitments, then produces a structured red-team report with required revisions, explicit assumptions, and downgrade/kill recommendations for claims that cannot be defended. The grading loop is based on fast artifact-level outcomes, not months-later delivery results: whether flags were accepted, whether the proposal was revised, whether unsupported claims were removed, and whether client clarification requests matched the flagged gaps. This makes the product a defensible proposal-risk gate, not a project-margin oracle.

A Commitment Audit is compelling because it solves an immediate, high-cost, pre-sale failure mode for boutique agencies with fast, objective artifact-level feedback rather than vague long-horizon project predictions.

Engine verdict: GATHER_MORE_SIGNAL (WORTH_SKIMMING). Real pain and whitespace, but no proof agencies will pay to remove the ambiguity that helps them win deals.