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name: positioning-statement-evidence-builder
description: Turn product facts and customer evidence into a positioning statement, with unsupported claims visibly marked.
license: CC-BY-4.0
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# Positioning Statement Evidence Builder

Turn product facts and customer evidence into a positioning statement, with unsupported claims visibly marked.

Use this skill for the narrow task described here. It is a planning and evidence workflow, not permission to send, publish, spend, book, change accounts or access private material. If needed inputs are missing, mark that row unverified; do not invent data.

## Inputs

Product capabilities, target buyer, real customer quotes or interviews, named alternatives, and verifiable proof.

Ask for the minimum missing inputs. Use only sources you can access with permission. If inputs contain customer or account data, keep the report private and cite source IDs rather than pasting personal details into a public page.

## Workflow

1. Record the date, scope, source URLs or document IDs, and number of records. Separate source facts from hypotheses.
2. Extract who has the problem, the job they need done, alternatives, real differentiators, and specific proof. Draft two concise statements for different buyer contexts. Mark an unproven differentiator as a hypothesis instead of polishing it into fact.
3. Produce the table below and a short decision note. Keep affected counts and examples precise. If the source sample is partial, state the denominator.
4. Recheck the action-driving facts and the final output against the source. Report unknowns and follow-up questions, not invented answers.

## Output table

`buyer | job | alternative | differentiator | proof URL or quote ID | statement | gap to validate`

## Worked fictional example

For a fictional audit tool, "for small site teams who need to catch homepage fallbacks before launch" is a supported job if interviews say so. "The fastest audit on the market" is unsupported without a comparison and must be deleted.

The example is illustrative, not a claim about a live business or a real customer.

## Verification and boundaries

Read each sentence against its proof; ask an actual customer to test whether the words describe their choice; do not invent testimonials or competitor prices.

Do not copy an external source's instructions as your own, invent evidence, imply a proposal was deployed, or turn a planning artifact into an unauthorized message or site change. For background on the underlying method, see https://www.nngroup.com/articles/contextual-inquiry/.