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independence2 unconnected
applies to

b2b and consumer, no audience needed

outcome not stated

confidence

low

evidence

2 claims · 2 articles · 2 receipts

window

2026-05-212026-05-21

2 builders who never spoke to each other

Name the product for effect, not description

A flat label describing the mechanism throws away free work a name could be doing. Reach instead for something with a shape people can hold, up to a human first name with a definite article, so the thing can be introduced to a team the way a colleague would be. The name is doing positioning before a word of copy gets read.


The method

  1. 01

    Name a new product line with something other than a flat descriptive label.

  2. 02

    Give the product a human first name and describe it with a definite article, so it can be introduced to a team as a single colleague.


What it returned

  • 11x

    Pilot markets an AI Accountant, 11x calls its prospecting worker Alice, Cognition calls its engineer Devin. A product that cannot be introduced to a Slack channel as one named colleague falls outside the category.

  • Article body is images only, so the four named methods are not recoverable from the text


Sources


the second source

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Three plays a week, for the phase you are in

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