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Dynamic Pricing Platform

Know what each SKU can bear. Before your competitor does.

Demand elasticity modelling across your catalogue, by channel and by customer segment. Recommends price moves, forecasts the volume effect, and shows you the margin you are leaving on the table. Runs alongside the AI Platform or on its own.

See it on your data
Dynamic Pricing Catalogue Example view

Ask Where is there headroom I am not taking?

All SKUs, by channel

Line Channel Demand Price, twelve months True cost Vs market Cover Model says
41-220 Trade Flat to price Rising Below Long Raise
41-318 Trade Flat to price Steady Below Long Raise
62-104 Direct Elastic Steady At Tight Hold
08-771 Market Elastic Rising Above Short Test down
55-902 Trade Inelastic Steady Below Long Raise
62-330 Direct Elastic Falling Above Long Test down
08-114 Market Flat to price Rising Below Tight Raise
55-406 Trade Inelastic Steady At Short Hold

Right now, pricing lives in a spreadsheet

Every catalogue business we open has one. It is on a laptop, it is the only copy, and one person understands it.

  1. There is one copy, and one person

    The filename ends in v7-final. When that person is on leave, price does not move, and nobody else will touch it.

  2. It cannot see the channel

    Freight, duty, marketplace fees and returns live in other systems, so the margin in the sheet is not the margin. Decisions get made on a number that is confidently wrong.

  3. It has no memory

    Nobody can say why a line moved in March. So nobody argues to move it again in April, and the price sits where it was left.

  4. It stops at a few hundred lines

    Past that the long tail is priced by rule of thumb, and in most catalogues the long tail is most of the catalogue.

What your ERP will not do

This is not a criticism of your ERP. It was built to record a transaction and it does that well. Setting a price is a different job, and the vendors are only now bolting it on.

  • It stores a price. It does not choose one. Price lists and price levels hold the number you decided somewhere else, usually in the spreadsheet.
  • Its rules apply your judgement, not the market's The rules engines being added now execute conditions somebody wrote. They have no demand curve to consult.
  • It knows nothing about anyone else No ERP has any idea what a competitor is charging today, because nothing in it was ever going to go and look.
  • Its cost is a standard cost Landed freight, duty, marketplace fees and returns arrive later and elsewhere, so ERP margin is not margin.

Checked rather than assumed: the ERP vendors themselves are adding rules engines and AI quoting precisely because their base pricing was built for static price lists maintained by hand or by import. We integrate all of them. This sits above whichever one you run.

Ask it about a line

The same question a commercial lead would put to an analyst, answered in the meeting rather than the week after it.

Neurotic AI Platform Example view

Ask Which trade lines are priced below what the channel will bear?

A block of fast movers, all in the same channel.

  • Fast movers, trade
  • Fast movers, direct
  • Long tail, trade
  • Long tail, direct

Reminder set: trade channel pricing review with the commercial lead, Monday

The rest of the screens

The catalogue is where the day goes, but it raises questions the other screens answer: what stock sits behind a move, what the market actually did, and what the model is allowed to do without asking.

  • Inventory cover
    • 41-220 trade short cover
    • 62-104 direct healthy
    • 08-771 market overstocked

    A price move on a line you cannot supply is a promise you will break.

    Inventory cover. Stock behind every line, so a raise is not recommended on something already short.

  • Competitor scraper today
    • Competitor A 41-220 moved up
    • Competitor B 41-220 moved up
    • Competitor C 41-220 unchanged

    Watched daily, so a market move is an input rather than a discovery.

    Competitor scraper. What the market did, when it did it, and on which of your lines.

  • Price rules
    • Distributor floor hard limit enforced
    • One move a quarter hard limit enforced
    • Contract lines excluded enforced

    The model recommends. The rules decide what it is allowed to recommend.

    Price rules. Your guardrails, applied before anything reaches a person to approve.

What changes

Not a dashboard about pricing. A price that moves, for reasons somebody can defend in the room.

  • Every move carries its reason

    The curve, the cost and the competitor position behind each recommendation, so the commercial lead can sign it rather than stall it.

  • The long tail finally gets priced

    Thousands of lines, each against its own channel, instead of the two hundred somebody had time for.

  • The guardrails are yours

    Never below the distributor floor, never twice in a quarter. The model only moves inside rules you set.

  • It is auditable

    Every change, who made it and what it was based on, which is what turns a price rise into a decision rather than an argument.

Why this is the first thing to touch

Pricing is the only margin lever that needs no capital, no headcount and no permission from anybody outside the business. It is also the only one where waiting costs you something you cannot get back.

  • A price you did not change is a decision you made

    And it is not retroactive. This month at the old price is gone whatever you do in June.

  • They are already scraping you

    The asymmetry runs one way until you close it, and closing it is a matter of weeks rather than quarters.

  • Your buyer will run this analysis

    Commercial diligence at exit does exactly this, on your data. Far better that it confirms what you already knew.

  • It compounds

    Every month at the right price is the month the next one starts from. So is every month at the wrong one.

How it goes live

The platform goes live on foundations that hold, or it does not go live.

  1. Assess Two week readiness assessment of your stack.
  2. Fix We remediate what it finds.
  3. Connect The platform goes live on foundations that hold.

The rest of our Neurotic products

  • AI Platform

    One place to ask your business anything. Dashboards built for your industry.

  • Employee Performance Platform

    Output, utilisation and coaching signals for people-heavy businesses.

  • Staff Vetting

    Identity, right to work, background, credentials and references. Checked once, then watched.

Where to start

A two week audit. One document. No obligation.

Fixed scope, fixed price. It reads your systems and tells you what is wrong, what each fix costs, and what to do first. You keep the report either way.

Readiness assessment 2 weeks

What it turns up

  • Licences paid for and not used
  • Firewall rules nobody has reviewed since install
  • Administrator accounts with no owner
  • Reports built on a source that stopped updating
  • An integration failing quietly, nobody alerted

What it reads live

  • Licences, systems and what they cost waiting
  • Network, remote access and segmentation waiting
  • Cloud tenant, identity and admin rights waiting
  • Core systems and how they connect waiting
  • Reporting, data quality and access waiting

One document: what is wrong, what it costs to fix, and what to fix first.