 How do I prepare my boss for an upcoming tech cost? So when you need to prepare your boss for an upcoming tech cost, it's important to let them know the life cycle and value produced from the cost or the thing that is nearing its end of life. And it's valuable for organizations to think of all of their technology costs as an investment and a portfolio that's providing their outreach capabilities. And so when you have a tech cost, what you're really saying is we need to reinvest in a capability or we need to improve a capability that's already working well for us. And I think that attaching time is important to that. This isn't a cost that in three more months you're gonna ask for the same cost again or if you are, prepare them for that. And I think helping them understand that if they pay this money or they invest this amount of budget, they're gonna get this value for this length of time. Really helps them both plan for that in their own job but also manage that up to other people who need to advocate for that budget so they have it to be able to allocate to your project.