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Using ONLY the supplied earnings call transcript and no outside information: On this call, does management describe that MONEY OR BINDING FINANCIAL COMMITMENT IS ARRIVING AT THE COMPANY AHEAD OF THE WORK IT WILL PAY FOR — that is, the parties on the other side of the company's business are putting cash down, paying earlier, or locking themselves into pay-regardless obligations BEFORE they receive what they are buying — and does management treat this advance funding as something that is currently growing and that finances or de-risks the company's next stage of growth? Answer YES when management's own words convey, in whatever form fits the business, ONE coherent phenomenon: the company is being paid in front of its own delivery, and that pattern is building. Any genuine expression of this counts, and the form varies widely across industries. For example — customers placing deposits, down payments, reservation fees, or prepayments to hold a place, a slot, or future output; buyers agreeing to pay up front, pay earlier in the cycle, or weight payments toward the start rather than the finish; counterparties signing take-or-pay, minimum-volume, capacity-reservation, or standby commitments that oblige them to pay whether or not they use what they reserved; a customer or partner funding tooling, equipment, development, inventory, or capacity that the company will own or operate; distributors, franchisees, licensees, or channel partners committing their own capital up front to carry or stand up the offering; upfront license, access, or milestone payments received before the associated work is performed; subscriptions, memberships, enrollments, seasons, or programs sold and collected in advance of the period they cover; an institution, payer, sponsor, or program disbursing or earmarking funds for work the company has yet to perform. Two things should come through in management's own voice. First, THE MONEY OR OBLIGATION IS ALREADY IN HAND AND HAS RECENTLY BEEN GROWING. Cash has been received, or a binding pay-regardless commitment has been signed — not proposed, negotiated, hoped for, or offered as an option — and management conveys, directly or plainly in substance, that the amount of such advance funding is larger than it was, arriving from more counterparties, or accumulating faster than before. Management may express the growth in whatever terms fit the business (a rising balance of deposits or prepaid amounts, more customers putting money down, longer or larger advance commitments, a step-up in prepayments received), and need not quantify it. Second, MANAGEMENT CONNECTS IT TO WHAT THE COMPANY CAN NOW DO. Management indicates that this early money matters to the company's next stage — for example that it funds or partly funds a build, ramp, inventory, capacity, or expansion the company is now undertaking; that it reduces or removes the need to raise capital for that step; that it gives management confidence to commit resources it otherwise would not; or simply that the company is now delivering against work that has already been paid for. Management should treat the advance funding as meaningful relative to the company's current size rather than as trivial housekeeping, and should convey that the associated delivery, and therefore the reported revenue from it, still lies largely ahead. The essence is ONE phenomenon: the company's own counterparties, rather than its shareholders or lenders, are financing its next stage — and they are doing so in growing amounts, before receiving anything, which is the costliest possible way for them to express confidence in what the company will deliver. Answer NO if the company simply gets paid in the ordinary course on normal terms, however promptly — routine invoicing, standard progress billing that this industry has always used, ordinary customer credit terms, or a business that has always collected in advance with nothing changed or notable in scale. NO if the advance commitment is only being sought, proposed, negotiated, or described as something the company would like counterparties to do. NO if the cash arriving early comes from investors, lenders, grantors, or a capital raise rather than from the company's own commercial counterparties. NO if the only money moving early is the company paying its own suppliers in advance. NO if deposits, prepayments, or deferred balances are mentioned only in passing as an accounting, tax, or working-capital detail, with no sense that counterparties are committing meaningfully ahead of delivery. NO if the advance amounts are described as flat, shrinking, being refunded, at risk of cancellation, or as concessions the company had to give in order to win business. NO if the money has already been substantially earned out, so nothing meaningful remains to be delivered. NO if management is chiefly explaining that it cannot perform, is renegotiating obligations downward, or faces refunds or penalties. NO if the idea appears only in an analyst's question or model that management does not itself affirm. Use only the supplied transcript. Answer only YES or NO.