Judgment drift
Consistent commercial rules depended on who was in the room.
How a residential developer replaced weeks of manual price-setting meetings with a constrained optimization model that prices every unit in a tower coherently.
The team had commercial knowledge but no shared mechanism for applying it consistently. Demand, inventory, or revenue-target changes reopened the spreadsheet and the discussion. Similar units could get inconsistent premiums, and the tower could drift from its revenue objective.
Client brief: Reduce repricing time, preserve commercial rules, and generate a price list that leadership and sales can review without rebuilding the logic manually.
Consistent commercial rules depended on who was in the room.
Individual unit prices could drift from the tower's revenue objective.
Any change in demand, inventory, or targets meant manual recalculation from scratch.
The model optimizes each unit's price inside a tower-level revenue envelope.
Defines allowable total revenue and market-position range.
Assigns prices from floor, view, layout, area, inventory, and demand signals.
Rejects any candidate list violating approved commercial rules.
Two steps close the loop: scenario analysis weighs revenue, absorption, and inventory trade-offs, then human approval gates release.
Replaces repeated manual recalculation and committee iteration with model reruns and exception review.
Optimized allocation of unit premiums, price ladders, demand sensitivity, and tower-level revenue constraints.
Review shifts from unit-by-unit construction to exceptions, assumptions, and final approval.
Supports spreadsheet, CRM, or ERP input; every price keeps a traceable set of value drivers.
Commercial overrides are logged, not hidden, and scenario outputs show trade-offs before release.
The business owns the final price list and can rerun repricing whenever demand, inventory, or positioning changes.
The buyer isn't purchasing an algorithm in isolation. They're buying faster repricing, consistent commercial rules, a defensible price ladder, and the ability to test scenarios before committing inventory to market.
Bring the current price list, unit attributes, commercial rules, and revenue target. The diagnostic will identify the variables, constraints, data gaps, and validation plan required for a controlled pricing pilot.