# What should the buyer do today?


**Complete this brief and choose one first-stage artifact—not all seven.**

> **Decision:** What are we renewing, adding, replacing or building?  
> **Deadline:** What is the notice or approval date?  
> **Current stack:** Which products and entitlements are relevant?  
> **Unanswered question:** What recruitment task remains unresolved?  
> **Scope:** Which competitions, seasons and authorised cases can we test?  
> **Owners:** Who uses, evaluates, approves and implements?  
> **Stop rule:** What finding would make us buy nothing?

Choose the **Overlap Audit** for renewal uncertainty, the **NWSL Gap Map** for coverage uncertainty, or the **Same-Shortlist Trial Kit** for a live supplier comparison. Add the **Joinability Check**, **Licence Stress Test** and **Cost Calculator** only where the proposed workflow requires them. These are suggested work products, not claims that downloadable tools or delivery services have already been launched.

**The next purchase should follow an evidenced gap—not precede one.**