Not always a good plan when you're managing business relationships. It's great when you can have that kind of dialog with a client, but diplomacy is a tricky dance sometimes.

Epistemologically correct way to phrase that, actually. They had the idea, they expressed it, and they refined it into an output they were hoping for. It's no different in methodology, just different in participation and self-effort.

You semantics-warriors wouldn't understand that if it hit you in the head like a sack of bricks though.