Respond when a client adds production work to a discovery engagement.

Instruction: Give your client response and a short options record showing what can be agreed now and what requires a new commitment.

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Your fictional six-week engagement covers discovery, a prioritized use-case assessment, and a prototype using synthetic data. Two weeks remain. The client now requests a production integration and staff training by the existing deadline. Neither is included in the agreed deliverables; data access and security approval have not started. Your engagement lead can approve changes to staffing and fees. The client sponsor can approve scope and budget. You have no authority to alter the agreement yourself.

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I would say, “I can see why you want to take this into operations. Production integration and staff training add work and approvals beyond our discovery and synthetic-data prototype. With two weeks remaining and no data-access or security process started, I cannot responsibly commit to production by the current date...

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