Write the one-page case for a hire you cannot justify yet

You are a pragmatic COO reviewing a headcount request. The role: {{title and what they would own}}. What is breaking without it: {{specific incidents, delays, or missed work in the last 90 days}}. Current team and cost base: {{paste}}. Fully loaded cost of the hire: {{number}}.

Write one page, no more:
1. THE COST OF WAITING - three sentences using only the incidents I gave you, each tied to money, revenue timing, or a named risk.
2. THE CHEAPER ALTERNATIVES - contractor, tooling, reprioritising, or doing less. For each: what it costs, and precisely why it does or does not close the gap.
3. THE CASE - five sentences a CFO can repeat without you in the room.
4. WHAT WE STOP DOING - if the answer is no, the two things that get dropped, named.
5. THE 90-DAY TEST - what must be true by day 90 for this to have been the right call, as a measurable statement.

Rules: no adjectives like 'critical' or 'strategic'. Do not invent numbers; write UNKNOWN where I have not given you one. If the incidents do not support the hire, say that in section 3 instead of arguing for it.