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  "projectName": "Software integration — example template",
  "currency": "USD",
  "contractPrice": 80000,
  "targetMargin": 0.25,
  "confidenceTarget": 0.8,
  "plannedStartDate": "",
  "promisedCompletionDate": "",
  "projectFixedCosts": 0,
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  "notes": "ILLUSTRATIVE INPUTS, NOT MARKET BENCHMARKS. Replace every estimate, price and rate. Scope: one source system to one destination, one-way scheduled sync. Excludes replacement of either system, historical data cleanup outside the agreed sample, and 24-hour support. Dates intentionally blank. Daily rates average cost across elapsed calendar days.",
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      "likely": 5,
      "pessimistic": 9,
      "fixedCost": 0,
      "dailyBurnRate": 800,
      "deps": [],
      "resourceClass": "",
      "notes": "Confirm credentials, sample payloads, limits and field ownership."
    },
    {
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      "name": "Mapping and interface contract",
      "optimistic": 3,
      "likely": 5,
      "pessimistic": 8,
      "fixedCost": 0,
      "dailyBurnRate": 800,
      "deps": [
        "t1"
      ],
      "resourceClass": "",
      "notes": "Agree mappings, failure behavior and acceptance tests."
    },
    {
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      "optimistic": 8,
      "likely": 13,
      "pessimistic": 22,
      "fixedCost": 0,
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      "deps": [
        "t2"
      ],
      "resourceClass": "",
      "notes": "One-way sync, retries, monitoring hooks and ordinary implementation uncertainty."
    },
    {
      "id": "t4",
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      "optimistic": 4,
      "likely": 7,
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      "fixedCost": 0,
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      "deps": [
        "t3"
      ],
      "resourceClass": "",
      "notes": "End-to-end tests against representative data and recovery cases."
    },
    {
      "id": "t5",
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      "likely": 3,
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      "fixedCost": 0,
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      "deps": [
        "t4"
      ],
      "resourceClass": "",
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