The profile · The evidence · Element

The sources

What the profile is built from.

The part

What it is

Buyer interviews, support records, sales call notes, and product usage data. Each sees a different part and none sees all of it.

A profile resting on one source is biased in that source’s direction: support records over-represent problems, sales notes over-represent enthusiasm.

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.