{"id":"recommendation-survivability","type":"concept","title":"Recommendation survivability","created":"2026-07-13","status":"term under active definition","authors":["Upstream Zero"],"edges":[],"body":"Working definition: the degree to which a vendor's candidacy survives the\nsuccessive gates of an evaluation process — surfacing, screening,\ncomparison, validation, final recommendation — and the degree to which a\nrecommendation, once formed, survives paraphrase, re-sampling, model\nupdates, and adversarial follow-up questions.\n\n**Status honesty:** this is a founder-coined term whose precise,\nmeasurable definition is still being developed alongside M-1. It is listed\nso the vocabulary is never load-bearing while undefined.","url":"/concepts/recommendation-survivability","machineUrl":"/objects/recommendation-survivability","referencedBy":[],"_meta":{"site":"Upstream Zero — Commercial Evaluation Observatory","version":"0.1","note":"Claims are presented at their evidence tier; Narrated is the lowest. Verify by walking edges, not by trusting us."}}