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Specialty coffee drinkers get $20 of extra value from my sourcing story, while casual drinkers see only $5 of extra value versus the reference. What price ceiling and floor should I set for each customer group, and how much room do I have?"},{"title":"Professional service pricing for two client tiers","prompt":"I'm a freelance UX designer. Clients can hire an offshore agency for $3,000 per project. My incremental cost is $500 per project. Enterprise clients get $2,500 in extra differentiation value from my domain expertise; startup clients only get $500 extra. Run the value-based pricing framework and tell me my ceiling, floor, and room for each client type."}],"resultDescription":"Returns a structured decision per segment containing: price ceiling (reference price + differentiation value), price floor (incremental cost), and the pricing room between them, plus the rule-based decision rationale, the framework node text, and its public citations. 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