Answer “come back in a year” with live Aether + Agent Builder proof.
Aether Games — Challenge 3 — leadership pushback: **"Come back in a year."** Using my Challenge 2 ROI model + **live Aether / Agent Builder proof** from Elastic Serverless: Draft a short **internal brief** for platform/SRE leadership that includes: 1. Gartner MQ / agentic observability proof point 2. Live capability: "I'll show Agent Builder on launch metrics — not a slide deck" 3. ROI numbers (annual savings, FTE recovered) 4. Named next step: 30-day pilot scoped to one workflow (matchmaking + auth correlation) Optional handlers: security → Serverless; "we have Grafana" → Aether boards already in Elastic.