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Illustrative scenario · Relationship protection

An existing vendor-client relationship is discovered

Not a completed transactionThis constructed example explains how Commercial Connections may operate in a comparable situation.
Situation

Aperture independently identifies a buyer, but the vendor later confirms an established active commercial relationship already exists.

What Aperture would do

Aperture records the overlap and ordinarily withdraws the referral route unless the parties expressly recognise a genuinely distinct opportunity.

Commercial path

Research → overlap discovered → relationship checked → withdraw or define distinct opportunity.

What this teaches

Protected relationships work both ways. Aperture should not insert itself into business it did not create.

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