platform
Bureaucratic/ˈplæt.fɔrm/n. (bureaucratic)
Etym.from Old French plate-forme 'flat shape', recontextualized by management consultancies and marketing teams in the early 2000s as a neutral label for strategic aggregation; see P. Holloway, Corporate Lexica, 2011.
A platform is a corporate abstraction that bundles unrelated features into a single investable object, thereby inflating valuations and postponing responsibility.
'We will build a platform to unlock network effects and synergize monetization' - Q3 Board Deck, slide 12