Software procurement in a trust-scarce market — how betting operators avoid buying vapor.
Interesting procurement problem: a market where the same search term returns deployed services, pirated source copies, and pure scams — at prices spanning 100x. The de-risking framework buyers converge on:
Classify the seller first. Deployed-service vendors (infrastructure + feed contracts + SLA) vs source resellers (code without the living dependencies) vs anonymous messenger sellers (skip). The source itself is ~10% of a working system — odds feed contracts, provider agreements and live-ops support are the value.
Demand runtime evidence. Live demo under real event load, not staged environments — the betting equivalent of load testing before signing.
Structure payments against risk. Milestones for custom work; setup+month for services; never 100% upfront to unverifiable counterparties.
Contract the exit. Data portability clauses decide whether future migration is a negotiation or a rebuild.
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