Make sale intent clear before a buyer starts a conversation.
A Product can be marked open to acquisition with a clear description of what a proposed sale includes and excludes.
Sale scope
The owner chooses the assets and rights included in a potential sale, such as source code, domains, brand IP, documentation, infrastructure, database rights and contractual rights.
The same scope can seed an Auction lot later so buyers are not shown two conflicting versions of the proposed sale.
Private interest
Interested buyers initiate private correspondence. Expressing interest is not a completed sale and does not create an ownership transfer.
Verification
Sale availability is gated by Product verification and coherent inclusion/exclusion settings so a public sale signal is not ambiguous.
Auctions are separate
An Auction adds its own terms, bidding rules, reviewed lot snapshot and conclusion workflow. Open acquisition interest does not automatically create an Auction.