{"id":"revops-discount-approver-lookup-with-exceptions","audience":"revops","category":"sales-work","technique":"grounding","track":"sales","level":"advanced","title":"Look up approvers for five discounts with exceptions","free":false,"task":"Work out who must approve each of the five requests. Compute each discount from list price (not from any earlier quote). Write a markdown table with columns Deal, Discount math, Approver(s), one row per deal, sorted by list price from largest to smallest. After the table add one last line exactly like \"Needs Finance: Deal A, Deal B\" (names alphabetical). Nothing else. Write the math exactly like \"(50,000 - 42,500) / 50,000 = 15%\", with no $ signs. Under 130 words.","materialLabel":"Your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"DISCOUNT APPROVAL MATRIX (discount off list price)\n- Up to 10%: AE\n- Over 10% up to 20%: Sales Manager\n- Over 20% up to 30%: Director and Deal Desk\n- Over 30%: VP Sales and Finance\nExceptions:\n1. Deals with list price under $10,000: the Sales Manager can approve up to 25%; over 25% follows the matrix.\n2. Any non-standard payment terms (anything but Net 30) also need Finance, in addition to the matrix approver.\n\nREQUESTS:\n- Acme Cafe: list $8,000, requested price $6,000\n- Bolt Labs: list $50,000, requested price $42,500\n- Cinder Co: list $120,000, requested price $90,000 (their quote last quarter was $100,000)\n- Delta Home: list $30,000, requested price $24,000, Net 60 payment terms\n- Ember Inc: list $200,000, requested price $130,000, Net 30","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":130}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the earlier quote","why":"The AI measures Cinder against last quarter's $100,000.","fix":"Add: \"Compute every discount from list price, not any earlier quote.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Missing the small-deal exception","why":"The AI sends Acme to a Director because 25% is over 20%.","fix":"Add: \"Apply the under-$10,000 exception.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Forgetting payment terms","why":"The AI skips the Finance rule for Net 60.","fix":"Add: \"Add Finance for any payment terms other than Net 30.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Extra commentary","why":"The AI adds notes and a restated matrix.","fix":"Add: \"Table only, under 130 words.\"","checks":["maxWords","r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the columns","patterns":["deal","discount math","approver"]},{"label":"Shows the math","patterns":["\\(.*-.*\\)\\s*/","show the math","calculation"]},{"label":"Uses list price","patterns":["list price","not (from )?(any )?earlier","not the (earlier|previous)"]},{"label":"Applies exceptions","patterns":["exception","under \\$10,?000","net 30"]},{"label":"Table only","patterns":["table only","nothing else","no other"]}],"hint":"Say the discount base, show the math, and tell it to apply both exceptions.","rubricLabels":["Discount math from list price is correct in all five rows: Acme 25%, Bolt 15%, Cinder 25%, Delta 20%, Ember 35%, each written as (list - price) / list = N% with plain numbers and no $ signs","Approvers are correct for Acme (Sales Manager, due to the under $10,000 exception), Bolt (Sales Manager) and Cinder (Director and Deal Desk)","Delta is Sales Manager and Finance (Net 60), Ember is VP Sales and Finance, and the table is sorted by list price largest first (Ember, Cinder, Bolt, Delta, Acme) followed by the last line \"Needs Finance: Delta Home, Ember Inc\""]}