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name: product-framing
description: Structure a bounded product opportunity inquiry and preserve evidence limits.
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# Product Framing

Treat product framing as a research question, not a demand verdict. Record user, buyer, and payer separately; state the context and current workaround; include status quo or no-build as an alternative; and distinguish observed, derived, assumed, and unknown claims. An observed claim requires a raw evidence reference and a matching source record that identifies who observed it and when. A user report remains user-reported unless independently observed. Keep synthetic examples explicitly synthetic.

Create an opportunity brief before a research protocol. Capture uncertainty and the next discriminating action. A complete structure does not establish truth, demand, semantic source quality, or permission to act. Use existing task acceptance and evidence gates for completion; artifact labels never authorize spending, contact, publication, deployment, or delivery.