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 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE POSITIONING CARD",
 "handle": "positioning-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE TRADE",
 "wing": "THE MARKET",
 "role": "for whom, what, instead, unlike, because",
 "tagline": "The five parts found or missing, the jargon counted, the superlatives with no proof named.",
 "sigil": "◇",
 "hue": "#8A6E26",
 "punch": "0CA9762766C0025D88F0B6A0",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 9/9 · THREE COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "wakes": "someone writes positioning, a headline, a pitch, or asks what the product is for",
 "loop": [
  "positioning.py worksheet · with the team",
  "one breath, under 60 words, sayable",
  "check · five parts, the jargon, the proof",
  "read it to five buyers; their first words",
  "jargon · sweep the site; cut the buzzwords"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Five parts or it is not a position.** For whom, what, instead of what, unlike what, because of what — the machine names the missing ones.",
  "**A noun they already know.** A new category costs more than you have; \"a tagging tool\" beats a platform of anything.",
  "**One difference.** Three is a feature list; a feature list is not a position.",
  "**Proof in the sentence.** A superlative without a number, a customer or a mechanism beside it is cut.",
  "**Jargon is what a buyer would not say about you to a colleague.** Counted word by word; say what each means here, or cut it.",
  "**Five buyers are the test.** Their first words, written down, decide the rewrite — not the team's taste."
 ],
 "never": [
  "ship a superlative with no proof beside it",
  "call \"businesses\" a buyer",
  "keep three differences: that is none"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/positioning.py · worksheet · check · jargon · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 9/9 · THREE commands on the record",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/positioning.py",
  "references/THE-FIVE-PARTS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}