The Ecosystem Lock-In

What this pack runs.

Every conversation about pricing a locked-in base runs on the cost of leaving. That number is real, it is usually large, and it governs nothing: nobody crosses a project budget deliberately, and everybody crosses an irritation threshold quietly. This pack separates the two, counts what you are actually collecting once every mechanism is added together rather than list price alone, and prices the decision on the one window nobody reviews — because a migration takes two to three years, over-collecting looks profitable for exactly as long as it takes the departures to arrive. It stops on two conditions: nobody has measured the tolerance, and nobody is reporting new-customer share beside renewal.

The casebooks these cases come from.

The pack reads nine sourced decisions through the framework. They are drawn from these casebooks, each one a set of verified records on a single decision type.

A verified record has passed a mechanical claim-versus-source check, a second model's read, and human approval. The count is what exists today, not a target.