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   "text": "The 2024 code review market is dominated by a few centralized firms that can charge exorbitant, monopoly-like prices, and those high prices do not buy a sound process because the code review process itself remains significantly flawed.",
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   "text": "Market concentration among the top five audit firms itself creates high barriers to entry for new participants in the code review market.",
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   "text": "Centralization of the code review industry causes systematic overpricing, because clients will pay nearly any price to obtain the approval stamp of one of the top five audit firms.",
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