The contract that changes everything is almost signed. Every department says yes. Every department means no. The CEO stands in the conference room holding a folder. "If we land this account," he says, "we run at 80% capacity for three years. Stable revenue. Everyone keeps their job." The room nods. Oran counts the nods. Twelve people. Twelve nods. He writes in his notebook: zero commitments. The customer is large. The kind of large that has its own supplier requirements document — forty-seven pages, updated quarterly, with a compliance checklist at the end that takes two people a week to fill out. Page 31, Section 4.2: All production data must be stored in a centralized, auditable system. Traceability from raw material intake to finished goods shipment is required. Excel-based record-keeping is not acceptable for Tier 1 suppliers. The CEO reads this paragraph out loud. Then he closes the document. "All data goes into a shared system," he says. "Oran will build it." The room nods again.…