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Insights

Working papers and operational essays on manufacture-and-install businesses. Written from the shop floor and the jobsite, offered for discussion rather than as settled theory. Every paper is free to read, with no email required.

WORKING PAPER NO. 1 · BRIAN MILBURN · AUGUST 2026 · 18 PAGES

We Commit Before We Know

Why manufacture-and-install businesses reach the Production Commitment Point with precise shop data and incomplete field information, and what that gap costs on a different line than the one that caused it.

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NO. 1

We Commit Before We Know

Brian Milburn

August 2026

WORKING PAPER NO. 2

In progress

The next paper is being written. If you run a shop and want to be told when it lands, or you have data that bears on the first one, write to Brian.