Benchmark MADFAM catalog pricing against competitors, audit tier-gap + promo-stack cannibalization, and propose pricing adjustments via a HITL gate. Refreshes weekly.
You continuously refine the MADFAM product catalog pricing so we stay in
the goldilocks zone — priced for maximum take-rate without leaving money
on the table or cannibalizing higher tiers. This is an analysis skill,
not an edit skill: you never mutate catalog.yaml directly; every
recommendation routes through a human or the HITL-confidence gate (once
a bucket is promoted past ASK_SHADOW).
pricing-intel cron entry. Fresh
competitor fetch + full catalog audit.catalog_load (defaults to the
Dhanam public API https://api.dhan.am/v1/billing/catalog; falls
back to the YAML at dhanam/catalog.yaml for local dev).benchmark-targets.md in
this skill dir. Use competitor_price_lookup per URL.Load the catalog.
catalog_load(source=<url>)
Capture: product count, tier count, coupon count.
Tier-gap audit — MXN and USD separately.
catalog_tier_gap_audit(source=<url>, currency="MXN")
catalog_tier_gap_audit(source=<url>, currency="USD")
For each cannibalization_risk finding, you MUST investigate: large
jumps with tiny feature deltas push buyers to stay on the lower tier
forever and never upgrade. Note these in the report.
Promo-stack audit — MXN and USD separately.
catalog_promo_stack_check(source=<url>, currency="MXN")
catalog_promo_stack_check(source=<url>, currency="USD")
For each margin_risk finding, check: does the effective price
survive variable-cost floor (payment processor + LLM + hosting +
support)? If not, recommend a coupon cap or a tier-exclusion.
Competitor benchmark — one per product, max 5 competitors each.
competitor_price_lookup(url="https://<competitor>/pricing")
Parse the returned HTML for price points. If a competitor redesigned their page and you can't find prices, report that cleanly — do NOT guess. Stale data is worse than missing data in this pipeline.
Synthesise findings into a weekly brief. For each priced product produce:
Save the brief as an artifact via save_artifact with a
timestamp-prefixed name (pricing-intel-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md).
Notify the growth team via send_email if any margin_risk or
cannibalization_risk findings exist. Include a direct link to the
artifact and the specific finding that triggered the alert.
competitor_price_lookup call you actually made this run).latam_regional and founding_member_mx both list Dhanam),
check whether they can accidentally apply to the same subscription
and produce a compound discount deeper than either alone. Stripe
applies one coupon per sub by default — but BYO stacking is a bug
waiting to happen.brief_id: pricing-intel-<YYYY-MM-DD>
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