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Is my half-built project worth finishing?

Sometimes the half-built thing is a foundation and sometimes it is a hole; the answer comes from a structured read, not loyalty to money already spent. Sunk cost is not a reason to finish; salvageable architecture is.

The longer answer

In practice.

What the read looks at

Whether the core design is sound, what portion genuinely works versus renders, how documented and testable it is, and whether the missing half is construction or archaeology. A day or two of reading, a written verdict in plain words.

The three honest verdicts

Finish it (more exists than you feared); harvest it (keep the design and data, rebuild the code, cheaper than it sounds with AI leverage); or end it well (keep the lessons, stop the bleeding). I have delivered all three, including the third, to people who thanked me later.

What finished means this time

A scope agreed in writing, working software over promises, and evidence at the end, per rescues. The original dream died with the original plan; the job is the shortest honest path to something running.