For CIOs, heads of, and anyone who signs off budgets.
Where the money, the risk and the org chart get decided. Short on diagrams, long on consequences, written for people who have to say yes or no before lunch.
A framework is a core set of classes, the conventions around them, and someone enforcing both. Its product is that every team's code has the same shape, so anyone can review anyone's work and the next platform change is three edits, not every class. That only holds if someone owns it.
A delivery partner sells speed, capacity and accountability, and those are real. You pay with knowledge, design authority and the ability to judge the work, none of which appears on the invoice, and whether that trade suits you is knowable up front.