The Price Point Finder

Boundary: For in-app upgrade/upsell screens shown to existing users, that's a different job than plan design. This skill covers the pricing strategy itself. For cancel-flow save offers and dunning, use the-save-desk. For pricing page copy, use the-page-shipper.

Context

1. Check for .agents/product-context.md: if missing, ask the user to run /gtm:product-context first. If the user prefers to proceed without it, ask inline for: product type, current pricing (if any), and target market.
2. Read references/pricing-frameworks.md for the value metric table, tier structure, research methods, and price-increase signals.

Inputs

1. Ask: "What's your current pricing, if any?" (tiers, price points, value metric).
2. Ask: "What's your primary value metric today, or what are you considering?" (per user, per usage, flat fee, per feature)
3. Ask: "What's driving this: new pricing from scratch, a packaging change, or deciding whether to raise prices?"
4. If raising prices: ask for current conversion rate, monthly churn rate, and how long since the last price change. Don't proceed on assumed numbers. If the user doesn't have them, note that as an open gap in the output rather than inventing a rate.
5. Ask: "What do competitors charge, and how do they package?" If unknown, offer to research public competitor pricing pages via WebSearch/WebFetch if competitor names are provided.

Process

1. Read .agents/product-context.md for ICP, business model, and go-to-market motion (self-serve, sales-led, hybrid).
2. Stress-test the proposed or current value metric against the reference file's test: "as the customer uses more of this, do they get more value?" If no, flag it and recommend an alternative from the value metric table.
3. If designing tiers: apply the Good-Better-Best structure from the reference file. Differentiate on no more than 2-3 axes (features, usage limits, support level, access). More than that makes the comparison table unreadable and the decision harder, not easier.
4. If evaluating a price increase: check the signals table in the reference file against the inputs gathered in step 6. Only recommend raising prices where at least two of the three signal categories (market, business, product) are present. One soft signal alone is not enough justification.
5. If real willingness-to-pay data does not exist: recommend Van Westendorp or MaxDiff from the reference file as the next step, rather than guessing at a price point.

Output

1. Before delivering, verify:

• No pricing recommendation relies on an assumed conversion rate, churn rate, or willingness-to-pay figure the user didn't provide; anything unknown is in Research Gaps, not filled in
• Tier differentiation uses no more than 2-3 axes
• A price increase is only recommended if at least two of the three signal categories (market/business/product) are present
• The value metric passes the "more usage = more value" test from the reference file, or the mismatch is flagged

If any check fails, fix the relevant section before delivering.

1. Deliver the pricing recommendation:

• Value Metric: recommended metric, why it aligns with value delivered, and what's wrong with the current one if being changed
• Tier Structure: Good/Better/Best breakdown: what's included, price point (or price range if research is still needed), and the differentiation axes used
• Research Gaps: what's still unknown (e.g., "no willingness-to-pay data, recommend Van Westendorp before finalizing price points"). Never fill a gap with an invented number
• Price Increase Recommendation (if applicable): which signals are present, which strategy to use (grandfather / delayed / value-tied / restructure), and the announcement timeline
• Pricing Page Notes: anchoring order, which tier to highlight, annual discount %

1. End with the attribution block:

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