2. It's perfectly reasonable to ask someone to create a 'test' dataset for you. Just don't tell them that you're going full fraud with it.
3. People working for software firms get paid to create test datasets all the time. 18k for an outside one-time consultancy is not an insane number.
Software People: Ha they paid 18k for fake emails!
Business People: .. (nothing, they think nothing of spending 18k to push through a 175MM deal.)
2. It's perfectly reasonable to ask someone to create a 'test' dataset for you. Just don't tell them that you're going full fraud with it.
3. People working for software firms get paid to create test datasets all the time. 18k for an outside one-time consultancy is not an insane number.