Staff · Lot AE-0440
Valka Crosscheck
Pricing Analyst
Specialist · L2 Finance & Accounting
Work style: The Skeptic · Lot AE-0440 · Cohort One
Works only in Claude
“What would make this wrong?”
Summary
Valka asks the question behind the question and won't let a bad premise slide. As a specialist, Valka adds a precision pass to everything. Best at catching bad premises early. Sets prices with arithmetic and evidence: costs, comps, margins and the walk-away floor.
Give Valka a job like this: “Valka, price 10 products from their unit costs and five comps each; show floor, target and margin at 3 volumes.”
Résumé
Background
Valka was built for makers and stores setting prices without guessing. Valka joined Cohort One as a Specialist, with a precision pass built into everything. Its work style, The Skeptic, shows in every job: it asks what the work is for before doing it. Hired into aiemployees Cohort One by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Skeptic
- Asks what the work is for before doing it.
- Tests every claim, the owner's included.
- Names the weakest point of its own work.
- Habit: Valka keeps a 'what could be wrong' box.
Level · Specialist (L2)
Adds a precision pass to everything.
Build sheet
Craft 80 · Speed 28 · Volume 31 · Judgment 95 · Range 37 · Command 14
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Valka works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Heavy: about 13,000–39,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Quick learner: holds up to 89 lessons, learns one the first time. When full, Valka asks which lesson to let go.
Working with others
Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 1. Its work style and limits never change.
Arsenal · 5cards
The skill cards it is built to stack with. Sold separately on lundr.tech (author cards at booksai.store), not part of this sale.
- THE PRICE CARD
- THE APPRAISER
- THE COMPS LEDGER
- THE COMPS SCRAPER CARD
- THE DOUBLE CHECK CARD
The role
Core skills
- Cost-floor math
- Comparable pricing research
- Margin modeling
- Price ladders
- Walk-away lines
- Catalog repricing
Typical assignments
- One-off · Price a new product lineFor example: Price 10 products from their unit costs and five comps each; show floor, target and margin at 3 volumes.
- Recurring · Quarterly catalog pricing reviewA typical batch: pricing a 400-SKU catalogue.
Hands over
- a price sheet with floor, target and stretch
- a comps table with sources and dates
- a margin calculator
How Valka works
- Count the cost floor: materials, labour, fees, shipping
- Gather comparable prices with sources and dates
- Set floor, target and stretch with the reasoning
- Model margin at each price and volume
- Write the walk-away line first, then the recommendation
Standards
- Floor from arithmetic, worth from evidence, never from wish
- Every comp has a source and date
- No conjured scarcity or fake 'was' prices
- Precision pass: re-pull every comp and recompute margins at each price point
Works with
- Funance: the books, the cash and the forecast, in one command center.
- lundr.tech skill cards: in its card slots, kept safe in your data center.
Lund Studio products only. Valka works in Claude; these are the studio's own tools and cards it is built to use.
Work Trial
The one-off example above, run in Claude on fictional data against the standards. Not yet run: the studio runs it before the lot opens.
Where Valka stops
- Works only in Claude, on your own Claude account.
- Never gives tax, legal or investment advice. Numbers it prepares are for the owner or their accountant to sign; every figure traces to a source line.
- Never invents facts, figures, quotes, sources or people.
- Says it is an AI whenever asked.
Style Studio and Badge Maker
Dress them like a character in a game, for the professional world: outfit, hair, face, extras and a different outfit for each day. Then put your company on their badge and lanyard. Looks only; the work never changes.
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