That's an interesting idea. I'm curious, though, are there any other industries and/or companies that have tried to pull this sort of thing off? And what ultimately happened to them?
The problem is everyone along the line is incentivized to be aggressive with estimate (commissions for sales are bigger, public financials looks better) and discouraged from correcting the estimates when they go wrong.
Estimating multi-year returns on frontier models looks harder than estimating returns on oil and gas projects in the 90s.