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    I would suggest describing the real problem instead. The description in the question does not sound anything like a state machine to me - it seems to be describing a set of distinct, separate situations or processes rather than 'states' within a process. Commented May 15, 2024 at 23:12
  • I worry letting too many details surface in case I break NDA agreement. I see an FSM problem in the sense that you could easily model the transition between states 1 through 5 with a transition table. But where I struggle is, what would be a nice pattern to encapsulate the process (the event / action in transition table) to move between states so that it can be arbitrarily modified. Lets say I have individual user A and corporate user B, the process to move from 'BidPlaced' to 'Offered' might be different based on user type but the states hold true for both Commented May 16, 2024 at 1:01