{"id":"Q-5","type":"question","title":"Is stable survival driven by market maturity or by the kind of requirement used?","created":"2026-07-20","status":"open","authors":["Upstream Zero"],"edges":[],"commercialRelevance":{"affectedBuyers":"Companies in categories where the field survives rather than collapses","affectedCategories":"Mature and saturated categories in particular","potentialProductImpact":"Whether stability is a property of the market or a property of what the buyer asks","currentConfidence":"Open. The two observed modes are confounded with requirement framing."},"whatWouldCountAsAnAnswer":"A run that holds the category fixed and varies only the framing of the requirements, capability-framed against pricing and packaging-framed, showing whether membership stability follows the category or follows the requirement type.","pubState":"published","body":"Two survival runs differed on two things at once: the category and the kind of\nrequirement used. Because maturity and requirement framing moved together, the\ncause of the difference between stable membership and churn cannot be assigned.\nThis question asks for a run that changes only the requirement framing, which is\nwhat would separate them.","url":"/questions/Q-5","machineUrl":"/objects/Q-5","referencedBy":[],"_meta":{"site":"Upstream Zero · Commercial Intelligence for AI-Mediated Commercial Evaluation","version":"0.1","note":"Claims are presented at their evidence tier; Narrated is the lowest. Verify by walking edges, not by trusting us."}}