Identify a no-go cutoff.

This is the fund­ing lev­el below which your strat­e­gy isn’t viable and the project should be ter­mi­nat­ed or put on hold until ade­quate fund­ing becomes avail­able. This should be clear­ly artic­u­lat­ed to part­ners and rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers to avoid cre­at­ing unre­al­is­tic expectations.