{"id":"vendor-elimination","type":"concept","title":"Vendor elimination","created":"2026-07-24","status":"Evidence available","authors":["Upstream Zero"],"edges":[{"rel":"part-of","to":"recommendation-survivability"},{"rel":"observes","to":"requirements"}],"summary":"How and where a vendor is removed from the recommendation set as requirements are added.","question":"At which requirement is a vendor eliminated, and what makes an evaluator drop it?","pubState":"published","body":"Vendor elimination studies the moment a company leaves the recommendation set:\nwhich requirement removes it, and whether the removal holds across repeated\nruns. A real elimination is one where a vendor is present, then absent, and\nstays absent.\n\nThe core question is where and why a vendor is dropped. What remains open is\nwhether the same elimination appears on more than one evaluator, and how much\nof it traces to the requirement rather than the evaluator.","url":"/concepts/vendor-elimination","machineUrl":"/objects/vendor-elimination","referencedBy":[{"from":"surface-independent-kill-effect","rel":"part-of"},{"from":"E-002","rel":"part-of"},{"from":"E-034","rel":"part-of"},{"from":"E-043","rel":"part-of"},{"from":"E-044","rel":"part-of"}],"_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."}}