Engineers don’t fail in high-stakes rooms because their analysis is wrong. They fail because they’re answering in the wrong unit. A project manager walks a client through a scope change in hours; the client asks for dollars; the PM keeps giving hours. The problem isn’t accuracy — it’s currency. Every room runs on a different one: internally it’s hours and feasibility, for clients it’s cost and timeline, for senior leadership it’s exposure and consequence. When you force the other person to do the conversion, you’re making them do your job. This episode introduces a single pre-meeting question and a three-part structure — impact, exposure, recommendation — that compresses technical analysis into something decision-ready without losing the rigor underneath.

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