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Full context: pre-sales/discovery.md Example: Healthcare air-gapped POC discovery

Environment & Infrastructure

  • What does your current deployment environment look like?
  • Are you running Kubernetes? If so, what distribution?
  • Is this environment air-gapped or network-restricted?
  • What are your egress/ingress constraints?
  • Do you have a container registry? Can it pull from external sources?
  • What CI/CD tooling are you using today?

Security & Compliance

  • Are there compliance requirements we should know about? (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ITAR, etc.)
  • Who approves software for deployment? Is there a review process?
  • What's your change management process look like?
  • Are there restrictions on tooling or languages?

Timeline & Stakeholders

  • What's driving the timeline for this evaluation?
  • Who else needs to be involved in the decision?
  • Is there a specific event or deadline we're working toward?
  • Have you evaluated other solutions? What did you like or not like?

Success Criteria

  • What does a successful POC look like to you?
  • What would make you confident enough to move forward?
  • Are there specific use cases or workflows you need to validate?
  • What's the "must have" vs "nice to have"?

Operational Readiness

  • Who will own this in production?
  • What does your support model look like?
  • What monitoring/observability tooling do you use?
  • How do you handle upgrades and patching today?

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