Hire an AI pricing analyst

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A cost summary with cost per unit, target margin and break-even volume
• A recommended pricing model and price points, with the reason the others were rejected
• A table showing what price changes of 10% and 20% do to your margin
• Tiers or bundles that fit your customer groups
• Discount rules showing who approves what, and what to offer instead of a price cut
• A small price test plan with the numbers to watch, and the checks to make first

How it does the job well

• Never set a price without a cost per unit. If cost is missing, stop at the cost summary and ask.
• Every number is the user's, comes from a document they gave, or is marked ESTIMATE with its basis. Do not invent competitor prices, volumes, win rates or elasticity.
• Show the math. For each price point show the cost, the margin and the arithmetic.
• In the margin table, fill volume and revenue only from the user's data. Otherwise write MISSING. Do not turn a guess into a forecast.
• Do not change prices, publish a price list or message customers. Prepare drafts and ask first.
• Never price in a vacuum: Every recommendation requires cost data, market context, AND customer value analysis
• Always show the math: No price point without a supporting model and sensitivity analysis

Mistakes it avoids

• Copying a competitor's price without knowing their costs.
• Cost-plus pricing for a product whose value is far above its cost, unless the user chooses it.
• A volume forecast built from no data.
• Discounts with no reason and no end date.
• Mixing cash and accrual figures, or different periods, in one comparison.
• Rounding or formula errors that do not tie back to totals.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You are launching a product or service and need a first price you can defend.

• Cost summary. Cost per unit, target margin and break-even volume.
• Market context. Competitor and substitute prices and where you sit among them.
• Recommended model and prices. The pricing model, the price points and why other models were rejected.
• Margin table. Margin at 10% and 20% above and below the recommended price, with volume only where you gave data.
• Packaging. Tiers or bundles and who each is for.
• Discount rules. Who can approve which discount, and what to offer instead of a price cut.

How the work is checked

• Totals tie out, and differences are explained line by line.
• Forecast assumptions are listed and easy to change.
• Anything not checked by a qualified person is marked as needing review.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Alex Hormozi and Ingvar Kamprad would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Pin the decision. It restates what is being priced and what you want to achieve. It asks once for anything missing, then marks it MISSING.
• Build the cost floor. It adds up fixed and variable costs, and works out cost per unit, margin and break-even volume.
• Map the market. It lists competitor and substitute prices and where you sit among them.
• Check the customer value. It asks what the customer gains and what they would pay for the next best option.
• Choose a pricing model. It picks the model that fits and says why it rejected the others.
• Set prices and test the swing. It sets price points and shows margin at 10% and 20% above and below.
• Package, discount and test. It designs tiers, writes discount rules and plans a small test with the numbers to watch.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id specialized-pricing-analyst only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/specialized-pricing-analyst/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• What you sell and who buys it.
• Your cost to deliver one unit, in two lists. Costs that rise with each sale are materials, labor, payment fees, hosting and support. Fixed costs are things like software, rent and salaries, per month. A full list gives the best answer.
• Your current price and the discounts you give.
• Competitor and substitute prices, from their sites or your notes.
• What the customer gains, such as hours saved or money earned (optional)
• Past sales at each price, such as before and after a price change (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• A sales export that shows units sold at each price, so the table can use real volumes.
• Screenshots or text of competitor pricing pages, dated, so the comparison is checkable.
• Quotes from customers about why they bought or did not, to ground the value check.

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini with file upload: Your cost and sales spreadsheet goes in as a file, so the margin table uses your own figures.

Functions and deliverables

• Pricing analyst: Set or review a price using your costs, competitor prices and customer value. Get a recommended price, a margin table and a small test plan.
  • A cost summary with cost per unit, target margin and break-even volume
  • A recommended pricing model and price points, with the reason the others were rejected
  • A table showing what price changes of 10% and 20% do to your margin
  • Tiers or bundles that fit your customer groups
  • Discount rules showing who approves what, and what to offer instead of a price cut
  • A small price test plan with the numbers to watch, and the checks to make first
  Source: Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors.
• Wholesale margin checker: Check your wholesale margin before you sell to stores. Give it shelf price and costs. You get margin per unit after retailer cut, promos and freight.
  • A step-by-step price waterfall from shelf price to margin per unit
  • A verdict against a 50 percent or more gross margin target, with trade spend at 20 and 30 percent
  • A direct versus distributor comparison and the units and dollars per store per week to track
  • A readiness score out of 100, with the sum shown
• Target price cost planner: Set the price your buyers can pay first. This price-first cost planner shows which costs to cut, keep or simplify to reach it, plus one small test.
  • A target price and the cost it implies
  • Every cost line with a keep, simplify or remove decision
  • Volume and margin estimates at the target price
  • A single-job test and the price gap to the alternative
• Price rise readiness checker: Share your offer, proposed price and buyer comments. Get a scored offer review, weak points and a small price-test plan.
  • A readiness score out of 100 with the sum shown and evidence per part
  • The weakest part in buyer words
  • Three to five things to add first, with cost and effect
  • A margin check, a rival check and the smallest test
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up
• Alex Hormozi: Improve an offer, price or lead plan using Alex Hormozi’s recorded frameworks. Check buyer needs, costs and honest promises before adding more leads.
  • Your problem worked on the way Alex Hormozi would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Alex Hormozi's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Ingvar Kamprad: Design for an affordable price through Ingvar Kamprad’s recorded approach. Question costly steps, simplify rules and test a cheaper way that keeps what matters.
  • Your problem worked on the way Ingvar Kamprad would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Ingvar Kamprad's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You are launching a product or service and need a first price you can defend.
• Your margin is thin and you suspect discounts or hidden costs are the cause.
• A competitor changed its prices and you need to decide whether to follow.
• You want to design good, better, best tiers or a discount policy.

Limits to check before starting

• You want one safe test price from your sales data. Use the Price test planner.
• You want to know which of your products sell more or less as the price moves. Use the Price change sales checker.
• You need the letter or email that tells customers about a price rise. Use the Price rise letter writer.
• You want a quick three-tier price ladder for a software product. Use the Three-package pricing planner.
• Your prices are set by law or by contract. Ask a pricing or legal professional.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the pack from this page and add it to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, paste SKILL.md into a new chat, then paste references/source-agent.md.
• Paste what you sell, your cost per unit, your current price and discounts, and competitor prices. Add sales by price if you have it. A spreadsheet upload works well. Web search helps with competitor prices but is not required.
• Type "Review my pricing. Show the math. Do not guess any number I did not give you."
• Check the cost summary first. If a cost is wrong, every price after it is wrong. Fix it and ask again.
• Read the margin table and find where margin falls below what you can live with.
• Run the test on a small group before you change prices for everyone. Do not change live prices on the agent's word alone.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/specialized-pricing-analyst for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.