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Draft a buyer-reviewed enterprise pilot frame

Create a pilot discussion document that states the problem, roles, evidence, boundaries, and decision after the pilot.

Preparation
One internal drafting session followed by buyer, security, commercial, and legal review.
Difficulty
Advanced
Task
Frame an enterprise pilot
Back to the Task: Frame an enterprise pilot

Before you start

Get what you need before you start

  • Confirm that a plausible buyer has agreed to discuss a pilot.
  • Assign an internal owner who can obtain specialist security, privacy, legal, and commercial review.

Steps

Work through the method

Use the listed inputs and tools. Check the evidence when you need to verify a step.

  1. Map the buyer system

    List the decision-maker, evaluator, budget holder, procurement owner, security owner, champion, user, legal owner, and finance owner. Mark every unconfirmed role as a question.

    Why it matters: A pilot can stall when a required role appears after the evaluation starts.

    Input
    Buyer conversations, account notes, and the qualified problem.
    Output
    A provisional role map with an owner for each open question.
    Tools in this stepHubSpot Sales Hub

    Evidence for this step

  2. Write the pilot frame

    State measurable buyer outcomes, baseline and data source, dates, scope, exclusions, responsibilities, costs, IP and data questions, security questions, termination, and the dated advance, revise, or stop decision.

    Why it matters: A bounded frame makes the expected learning and end decision reviewable.

    Input
    The role map, product limits, target-market requirements, and buyer questions.
    Output
    A draft pilot frame with explicit unknowns and specialist review flags.
    Tools in this stepHubSpot Sales Hub

    Evidence for this step

  3. Review it with the buyer

    Ask the buyer to correct the roles, scope, evidence, and decision. Record unresolved procurement, security, legal, and commercial items without guessing.

    Why it matters: The buyer response tests whether the proposed evaluation serves a real decision.

    Input
    The draft pilot frame and the relevant buyer roles.
    Output
    A corrected frame and a clear proceed, revise, or stop outcome.
    Tools in this stepHubSpot Sales Hub

    Evidence for this step

    • A current UK Space Agency checklist covers measurable success criteria, procurement, buyer roles, formal agreements, data rights, termination, reporting, and go or no-go points.

      UK Space Agency: Checklist lines 73–110

Success checks

Check the result before you finish

  • The buyer has corrected or confirmed the problem, roles, scope, and end decision.
  • Every security, privacy, procurement, legal, and commercial gap has an owner.
  • The frame states what happens when evidence is inconclusive.

Failure modes

Watch for these problems

  • The pilot starts with an unqualified lead. Return to qualification.
  • Success means only that the product was used. Name the buyer decision the evidence informs.
  • The draft invents general procurement requirements. Ask the target buyer and relevant specialists.
  • Free delivery begins without an authorised agreement or conversion path. Stop until the buyer and qualified owners approve the scope, costs, termination, and decision route.

Tools

Choose the tools you need

Sources

Read the sources behind this practice

Check what each source supports and where the advice has limits.