PSDA.1:2 - Problem

The sponsor’s first sentence often becomes the model title, data request, option space, and final recommendation. Its assumptions disappear because they are encoded as scope. A second failure produces many “perspectives” that differ only in wording and therefore add ceremony without changing any downstream work. A third treats plurality as permanent indecision and refuses to bound the inquiry.

The needed discipline is neither immediate convergence nor unlimited reframing. It is to construct a small set of materially different formulations, expose what each makes visible and suppresses, and stop when additional formulations no longer change the current receiving use.