Commercial evaluation

This is the commercial evaluation concept as it appears in the research graph. For the full, canonical definition of commercial evaluation, and how AI-mediated commercial evaluation works, see the reference page: Commercial Evaluation.

On the research side, commercial evaluation is the invariant the program studies: the process by which a buyer, or a system acting for one, narrows a field of vendors into a recommendation and a selection. Each research component, recommendation set formation, vendor elimination, frontrunner movement, recommendation survivability, validation and evidence, and the rest, studies a part of it. Underneath every one of those decisions are requirements.