Verdict. Accept with conditions. Neither Offering Portfolio Scope nor Offering Landscape requires independent business identity. Scope is a versioned governance and filter profile evaluated against a future Offering Catalogue. Landscape is a non-authoritative projection. A governance version stamp and a dated extract are addressable artifacts, not commercial masters. The conditions below are blockers to operational use, not a reversal of that identity decision.

Strongest evidence. Adjacent masters already cover offer and quote, order, subscription, contract and obligation, customer relationship, and observations. Membership is the evaluation of market, channel, availability, and policy predicates, so the scope does not own offering instances. A projection declared non-authoritative cannot be the source of sellability, price, entitlement, or retirement. Granting either candidate business identity would create a second master for facts those masters already own, and would invite conflicting retirement semantics.

Strongest counterexample. A partner contract names “the offerings admitted by portfolio scope version V for market M and channel C” as an exclusive set, and a filing demands a reproducible view. That does not promote either candidate. The contract and obligation master must reference a frozen scope version and a catalogue baseline. The filing is a dated, immutable projection artifact bound to those same references. If the contract master cannot store that citation, the profile shape is incomplete. If a sales process treats the landscape as authoritative, that is a process defect, not a reason to mint identity.

Identity and mastership. Business identity stays on Product, Service, Offering, Quote, and Entitlement, and on the adjacent masters. Product Catalogue and Offering Catalogue remain unallocated candidate masters; until allocated, the profile has no target. EM-LND-07 has no target model identifiers; none are invented here. A scope version identifier is configuration identity for governance and citation. It is not an identity a customer buys, quotes, or is entitled to. Landscape has no create or update authority.

Portfolio boundary. The boundary is the predicate set: market, channel, availability, and policy, evaluated against catalogue members for an effective interval. Inclusion is derived, not stored as owned membership. Exclusion, override, and exception must be explicit predicate outcomes, not silent gaps. A scope version does not define price, term, or entitlement. Channel exclusivity that creates a duty is an obligation that cites the scope, not a property of the scope itself.

Product, service, and offering. These stay distinct, and none is a subtype of scope or landscape. Product is what is specified. Service is what is performed, including internal services. Offering is the commercial or internal proposition placed in a catalogue. Quote is a time-bound proposal. Entitlement is a granted right. The prepaid data bundle is a commercial product offered as a sellable proposition. The seat licence is a different commercial product and offering. The employee identity-provisioning service is a service, not a zero-price product; any internal offering of it is still not a quote or an entitlement.

Comparison. Three cases, different justified criteria. Prepaid mobile data bundle: price per unit of data, validity window, roaming policy. Seat-based software licence: included seats and usage caps, support tier, data-residency options. Internal identity provisioning: mean time to provision, control coverage, access-risk reduction. Cross-class comparison on price per unit of data is rejected: basis is not shared, criteria are class-specific, verdict is incomparable. A partial verdict is allowed only if a declared outcome class is justified and criteria are restated for that class. Co-membership in a scope is not comparability.

Duplicate outcomes. A claim that the data bundle and the seat licence produce the same consumer outcome fails substitution evidence and is not collapsed. A claim that internal identity provisioning duplicates a commercial identity offering fails unless semantic equivalence, same consumer, entitlement equivalence, and workable substitution are all present. Internal consumer and no customer entitlement usually fail the last two. Missing any one of the four evidences invalidates the claim.

Economics and value. External revenue is not the value type. The two commercial offerings carry price and revenue. The internal service records typed non-revenue value: access-risk reduction and onboarding lead time. Zero external revenue is not zero value, and must not be scored as such in landscape rankings. Cost-to-serve may be recorded, but it does not replace the typed value.

Retirement and obligations. Retiring the data bundle, with a recorded successor and migration path, does not cancel open quotes, in-flight orders, active subscriptions, contracts, obligations, or entitlements by inference. Each remains on its master. The retirement record states support window, retention, successor or migration, or an explicit no-successor. The seat licence and the internal service are unaffected. Landscape may show the retirement only as a projection of catalogue state.

Time and scenario. At T0, both commercial offerings are eligible under a retail-channel scope; the internal service is eligible only under an internal-operations scope, with typed risk value. At T1 the data bundle is retired with successor and migration recorded; open quotes and active entitlements remain. At T2 the seat licence continues. At T3 the internal service remains, still excluded from revenue ranking. At T0 a shared price-per-unit comparison returns incomparable.

Invariants.

1. Neither candidate is a source of commercial commitment or entitlement.
2. Product, Service, Offering, Quote, and Entitlement remain distinct.
3. Scope membership is predicate-derived, never an owned membership identity.
4. Landscape cannot authorise a quote, order, entitlement, or retirement.
5. Decisions cite catalogue state plus scope version, not the landscape.
6. Comparison without declared basis, class-specific justified criteria, and an explicit comparability verdict is invalid.
7. Verdicts are comparable, partial, or incomparable.
8. Zero external revenue does not imply zero value; internal services require a typed non-revenue value.
9. A duplicate-outcome claim fails if any of semantic, consumer, entitlement, or substitution evidence is missing.
10. Retirement never cancels quotes, orders, subscriptions, contracts, obligations, or entitlements by inference.
11. A retirement record states support, retention, successor or migration, or explicit no-successor.
12. Prior scope versions remain addressable after supersession.
13. Catalogue masters must exist before a scope profile can be evaluated.

Minimum profile shape. Scope: configuration version identifier, effective interval, predicate set for market, channel, availability, and policy, inclusion and exclusion outcome, governance owner role, catalogue version targeted, supersession link, status as a profile. Landscape: projection timestamp, scope version cited, audience, non-authoritative flag, refresh rule, provenance to catalogue baseline, and no commitment attributes.

Blockers. Offering Catalogue and Product Catalogue are unallocated, so the profile has no target master. WM-ACT-004 Service Definition