Guardrails & rules
Floors, ceilings, change limits, and rule precedence.
Guardrails are the constraints every recommended price must satisfy. The strategy proposes a target; the guardrail layer clamps it into the allowed range and records exactly which rule, if any, held it back.
The guardrails
- Margin floor / ceiling — keep gross margin within a band.
- Max change per cycle — limit how far a price can move at once (e.g. ±8%).
- Price floor / ceiling — hard money limits per SKU.
- Competitor distance — stay within a set percentage of the competitor median.
- Rounding — snap to charm endings (
.99,.95) or whole numbers.
Precedence
Guardrails apply in a defined order, and hard money-losing floors run last so they always win. A target that would dip below your margin floor is lifted back to it, even if an earlier rule (like max-change) wanted to move it further. The recommendation then carries the binding rule — the one that had final say — plus the full clamp trail, so a held price is never a mystery.
Where they live
Global defaults are set in the Control Center and inherited by every strategy; specific SKUs or strategies can override them. New workspaces start with sensible defaults rather than an empty, unguarded state.