The number printed on a roofing bundle is a test result, not a forecast. Three people adjacent to your decision can translate it, and they will usually do it for free.
Published completion and placement rates are averages over a denominator somebody else defined. Four people adjacent to the decision can tell you what the number leaves out.
A property manager with two matching buildings found one was burning through floor finish twice as fast. The cause was eight feet of missing entry matting, and the bill landed in four other budgets.
Consulting pitches are built to be convincing. Five checks, and the documents behind them, that separate a firm that can do the work from one that can describe it.
A brown ring on a bedroom ceiling produced two very different inspection write-ups, and the difference decided whether the buyer could negotiate at all.