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Figma won by redefining design as a team problem, not a tool problem.

Over 100 competing definitions of AI hallucination leave organizations building on contested ground.

Undefined categories force buyers to compare incomparable products.

Models amplify dominant vocabulary instead of averaging it, locking in whoever gets there first.

The vendor who names this category first wins a structural advantage no feature can match.

When vendors restrict open source licenses, community forks seize the category's language and win.

Platform gravity redrawing category boundaries through language, not product superiority.

Unified storytelling determines whether buyers see one company or fifteen at exit.

Reframing the market's language is how challengers reshape the rules competitors must follow.

When incumbents stop updating their language, markets stop updating their loyalty.

Analyst ratification converts a company's story into investable proof for institutional capital.