One way to spend under 1% on actually building a product is to spend 18 months, and somewhere around 75% of the budget, on “planning” before you even start to think about building something. It took about a month of meetings, and many revisions, to come up with a plan for how to lay out the build area. All drawn and re-drawn in CAD of course, Keep in mind, no one thought to ask me what I might need or want until after the final revision was signed off by the top guy. Of course, every hour anyone in the building spent doing anything related was billed to the project. That was ALL done before they even had a space chosen or leased. I taped the final plan up on the wall where the big dogs could see it when they came to the shop. No one ever commented on the fact that that the plan, and the space we ended up with, were not even close 
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