... that your product is substantially equivalent to something already cleared. If you design first and go looking for a predicate afterward, you've made your own life much harder. Budget in calendar time, not just money. The money is knowable. The delays are not, and for a one-person company, twelve months of runway with no revenue is the part that actually kills you. Happy to answer anything specific it's a process almost nobody documents publicly, and I would ...

... hard case rather than a shortcut. The crude thing that actually works, and it is crude: scope the rule to the path. Not what the tool is, not what the arguments are, just which files. Blast radius is rarely knowable, but it is often co-located, and for payment webhooks it almost always is. A proxy, and a good one exactly where you need it. Which rests on something I would want to know before trusting it. How many paths ... ... nothing, the reviewer's normal experience becomes an empty screen, and empty screens train people to expect empty. Whether the one that is not empty gets read properly on day forty is an open question. It still beats the alternative

... actual insight, and it's bigger than it looks: making the notification say why it's waiting is what turns a ping into a triage. "Done" makes you tab back to find out what "done" means. "Needs approval vs finished vs