Parts 1–3 built the commercial loop: demand curve, 5¢ grid, dual change gate. This post is the shipping layer — how those jobs actually run on Azure without a leftover disk and a hope. One sentence:…
Part 1 said I do not predict a sticker. Part 2 built the demand curve. This post is the commercial layer: how I turn that curve into a scored grid without burying policy inside LightGBM leaves….
Part 1 of this series argued that a shelf-price system should not spit out “the right sticker.” It should score a grid with a demand curve underneath. This post is the curve: how I build a…
Most “pricing ML” demos train a model that spits out a dollar figure and call it done. That works in a notebook. It fails the first week a category manager asks why milk moved 12 cents…