Decision inputs
Facts that change the policy answer
The working material is pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints; the intended result is an experiment plan and price variants. Recording that pair prevents a vague approval from spreading to other uses.
- 1Task and owner
- Monetisation product manager wants to design a pricing experiment. Record the person who will stand behind an experiment plan and price variants after the tool has finished.
- 2Information involved
- Pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints. Check uploads, history and connected systems before describing the request as low sensitivity.
- 3Tool and account
- An approved company account. Treat a new plug-in or connector as a change to the approved setup.
- 4Intended result
- The expected result is an experiment plan and price variants. State whether another person will see it, rely on it or receive an action produced from it.
- 5Consequence if it is wrong
- The experiment can create unfair treatment or unclear customer commitments. That risk sets the level of review and the person who should receive an exception.
- 6Human review
- commercial and legal owners should inspect, change, reject or stop the result. A final glance after an automatic action would not give that owner meaningful control.
Possible policy routes
The task name alone cannot decide it.
A published workplace policy can return different answers for the same task. These are the practical branches worth encoding.
A routine policy route may be possible
A routine route is easier to justify when the exact account is approved, only the minimum confidential commercial information is used, an experiment plan and price variants remains within the stated purpose, and commercial and legal owners reviews it before use.
Approval may be required
A named reviewer should take over when the account or data handling is uncertain, the experiment can create unfair treatment or unclear customer commitments, or an experiment plan and price variants reaches people or systems beyond the requester’s authority.
The request may need to stop or change
The proposed use should pause if restricted information would enter an unapproved service, the output would act before commercial and legal owners can intervene, or define eligibility, disclosure, duration and treatment of existing customers cannot be maintained. Consider less information, a controlled account or a non-AI process.
Request checklist
Questions to ask before using the tool
- 01
Has the company approved this account configuration for design a pricing experiment, rather than only approving the product?
- 02
Who is permitted to expose pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints to this tool and for this purpose?
- 03
Does an experiment plan and price variants create an external statement, a decision or an automated action?
- 04
Can commercial and legal owners inspect the complete result and its source before reliance?
- 05
Is this genuinely one request, or will repeated use turn it into an embedded process?
Worked request
What the employee should submit
This example supplies decision facts without pasting the underlying material into the approval record.
- requester
- monetisation product manager
- task
- Use AI to design a pricing experiment.
- information
- pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints
- tool
- An approved company account
- frequency
- Recurring work
- region
- Where the work and affected people are located
- purpose
- Analyse
- impact
- Customer pricing
- review
- Complete human review
- owner
- commercial and legal owners
Useful safeguards
Controls that fit this request
- ✓
Define eligibility, disclosure, duration and treatment of existing customers
- ✓
Separate source material from the request record and expose only what the tool needs for an experiment plan and price variants.
- ✓
Write the boundary around an experiment plan and price variants clearly so later users do not expand the approval by assumption.
- ✓
Record the request and reviewer without copying unnecessary parts of pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints into the audit trail.
Questions people ask
About this AI use
Is using AI to design a pricing experiment automatically allowed?
The task name cannot settle the answer. Apply the company’s published rules to pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints, the exact account, an experiment plan and price variants, its audience and the proposed review.
What belongs in the employee’s request?
Describe an experiment plan and price variants, identify pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints, name the exact tool and account, explain who will receive or rely on the output, and state how commercial and legal owners will review it.
What should remain after the decision?
Record the request and reviewer without copying unnecessary parts of pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints into the audit trail. A classification and controlled reference may be enough when copying pricing goals, customer segments and commercial constraints would create unnecessary risk.