A building-permit Product Owner believes prefilling known applicant fields will raise form completion. Stakeholders want the idea added to every form this quarter. What is the most professional next move?

Hypothesis-driven product work states a testable relationship between a change and an outcome, then measures. Prefill may help, but scaling it to every form without evidence converts an assumption into a large spend. Story-point estimates describe effort, not value, and annual strategy documents are too slow for empiricism. A small increment with a clear success measure lets the Product Owner persevere or pivot.