Finance Intelligence · Virtual Department
Pricing & Margin
A pricing office that recovers margin one transaction at a time — with evidence.
Mandate
Find leakage. Justify increases. Make every discount accountable to a customer outcome.
Cadence
Weekly leakage · Monthly price review · Quarterly architecture
Reports to
CFO · Commercial Director
What this department delivers
Six outcomes that move every quarter. Calculated in Python, reviewed by a human, evidenced at source.
Leakage map
By SKU · channel · rep
Pass-through tracker
Cost → price elasticity
Discount governance
Approval thresholds
Win/loss pricing
Quote analytics
Margin alerts
Customer-level
Price-list discipline
Drift control
Inside the workflow
Five governed stages. Every output traceable from claim to source.
- 01
Ingest
Input
Invoices · cost · contracts
Method
Transaction-level join
Output
Net realised price
- 02
Diagnose
Input
Price waterfalls
Method
Leakage decomposition
Output
Recovery candidates
- 03
Model
Input
Elasticities · cost trend
Method
Pass-through scenarios
Output
Price-change menu
- 04
Review
Input
Proposals
Method
Commercial + finance challenge
Output
Approved changes
- 05
Track
Input
Realised vs target
Method
Follow-through monitoring
Output
Margin proof
Pricing & Margin — Weekly review pack
Trust by design
How Pricing & Margin outputs are governed
- 1
Connect evidence
- 2
Validate & protect
- 3
Select method
- 4
Calculate
- 5
Explain
- 6
Review
- 7
Prove value
Signals it produces
Atlas-8 doesn't ship dashboards in search of a question — it ships decisions waiting for a sign-off.
- Discount creep > policy
- Customer below floor margin
- Cost rise un-passed
- Rep override pattern
- Channel margin gap
- Contract auto-renewal risk
Without Atlas-8
- Margin shrugs
- Untracked discounts
- Reactive price hikes
- List vs realised gap
With Atlas-8
- Leakage named
- Discount accountability
- Evidence for every move
- Realised price visibility
Integrations & data sources
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