Digitising a parts catalogue, without the sales pitch.

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There are four ways to put a parts catalogue in front of a buyer, and they are not variations of each other. What separates them, and the two questions that most often decide the outcome.

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What you would genuinely have to build to render an interactive diagram inside your own storefront, what it costs to keep alive, and the situations where doing it yourself is the right answer.

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A line-item model rather than a single number: diagram acquisition, callout mapping, the rendering layer, hosting and upkeep — and which of those scales with parts count rather than model count.

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Twelve questions to put to any vendor or internal team, each written so that a vague answer tells you something useful rather than nothing.