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The customer rejects how the integrator splits responsibility for deployment evidence and support escalation, and the funding lapses in 21 days. You have to reshape the terms so all three sides sign before the window closes.
Job traces in regulated instances are kept longer than customers expect, and storage costs climb. You have to weigh tighter defaults against investigations that still need those logs, since this is hard to unwind.