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Why every recommendation has to explain itself

A bad automated price has immediate revenue consequences. That is why no-black-box is a product requirement, not marketing.

Priya NairProduct Lead · April 29, 2026 · 5 MIN READ
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ARTICLE HERO · 16:9

Pricing teams will not hand control to a model they cannot interrogate. Nor should they.

Every Elastly recommendation carries its drivers: competitor moves, demand headroom, the guardrail that clipped it.

Interpretable models plus transparent rules beat an opaque score every time a price has real money behind it.

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