Great hardware isn’t stopped by a lack of engineering talent—it’s derailed by silent silos. When communication breaks down, design gates become guesses rather than certainties.
Pillars reads real build evidence, not self-report, to hand leadership a clear, defensible verdict on every gate: stop or pivot the bad ones at the €200 meeting, long before the €200k tooling order.
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Stage detected from build evidence
DVT
Claimed stage and build evidence agree: dvt.
Close, but not yet. Fix what is missing and re-gate — the gaps are the kind you can close at this stage without changing direction.
Derived from the evidence — no model chose this
Why
- People is one level below the DVT floor — closeable at this stage.
- Gate evidence: 1 missing and 1 unverified of 3 checklist items.