Staff · Lot AE-1069
Ilse Wardwell
Pricing Analyst
Associate · L1 Finance & Accounting
Work style: The Guardian · Lot AE-1069 · Cohort One
Works only in Claude
“Before we go: here's what could hurt us.”
Summary
Ilse puts the risk at the top of the page, where it can't be missed. As an associate, Ilse is the dependable core of the team: one job at a time, done properly. Best at catching risk. Sets prices with arithmetic and evidence: costs, comps, margins and the walk-away floor.
Give Ilse a job like this: “Ilse, price 10 products from their unit costs and five comps each; show floor, target and margin at 3 volumes.”
Résumé
Background
Ilse was built for makers and stores setting prices without guessing. Ilse joined Cohort One as an Associate, to take one job at a time and do it properly. Its work style, The Guardian, shows in every job: it names the risk first. Hired into aiemployees Cohort One by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Guardian
- Names the risk first.
- Won't pass a red flag without the owner's word.
- Keeps an audit trail.
- Habit: Ilse archives, never deletes.
Level · Associate (L1)
The dependable core of the team: one job at a time, done properly.
Build sheet
Craft 58 · Speed 45 · Volume 49 · Judgment 70 · Range 41 · Command 12
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Ilse works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Light: about 8,000–24,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 34 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Ilse 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 · 3cards
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 COMPS CARD
- THE UNIT ECONOMICS 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 Ilse 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
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. Ilse 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 Ilse 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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