Differentiation · The difference statement · Element

The substitution test

The check that a competitor could not credibly say the same thing.

The part

What it is

Run against each named alternative, this test eliminates most first drafts, which is what it is for.

Where a rival could say it but does not, that is a positioning opportunity rather than a difference — and worth recording as such.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.