Retain it only as an unverified scenario, not a market statistic. The client-supplied context/marketDoc.md, exported 26 October 2026, assumes 2,000–5,000 annual US buyers spending $75,000–$250,000 on scoped external work. Multiplication gives $150 million–$1.25 billion.
The arithmetic is valid; neither input was independently established. Its illustrative segment shares and growth assumptions are also unverified. Do not use the resulting range as a headline “market worth” claim. The supplied existing-research.json was empty, so there is no underlying measured dataset to update.
To improve it, define a sampling frame of plausible buyers, verify size and production use, collect actual purchase categories and dates, distinguish one-off from recurring spending, and estimate uncertainty and non-response bias. A survey of enthusiastic platform users alone would not represent all target businesses.