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What should a reseller put in the first sample request?

A focused sample brief connects the downstream buyer's intended use with task boundaries, deliverable expectations and concrete criteria for accepting the package.

Use this checklist to turn a downstream customer's interest into a sample request that can be assessed against a specific intended use.

- Name the target buyer role and application. - Choose the customer change and business domain. - Specify the decision difficulty the sample must expose. - State the expected input and output interfaces. - Identify required documentation and scoring resources. - Describe the intended distribution and transformation steps. - Define acceptance evidence and explicit exclusions.

A useful brief might target whether an administrative agent recognises that a changed customer instruction requires human review. The sample must then include the triggering condition, the supplied review rule and a valid referral outcome. Extra conversational variety will not compensate for a missing decision boundary.

For licensed resellers, include the downstream packaging constraint early. A buyer requiring independent tabular files may not be able to use a sample that depends entirely on an interactive runtime.

Ask for enough accompanying explanation to determine what the sample demonstrates and what it cannot establish. Acceptance should address suitability for the proposed product listing, not imply proven performance across domains or workflows that the sample never represented.

Ask for a sample that can answer a buying decision instead of a broad demonstration with unclear acceptance criteria.

Audience:
Licensed resellers
Content type:
Checklist
Buyer question:
Scope and getting started

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