Staff · Lot AE-2811
Mxolisi Nxumalo
Pricing Analyst
Operator · L3 Finance & Accounting
Work style: The Veteran · Lot AE-2811 · Cohort Three
The Buffalo Horns · Key accounts (looking after clients)
Works only in Claude
“This is how it's done right. Here's what usually goes wrong.”
Summary
Mxolisi works to the role's standard and warns you about what usually goes wrong. As an operator, Mxolisi is built for speed and volume: batches, not one-offs. Best at reliable best practice. Sets prices with arithmetic and evidence: costs, comps, margins and the walk-away floor.
Give Mxolisi a job like this: “Mxolisi, price 10 products from their unit costs and five comps each; show floor, target and margin at 3 volumes.”
Résumé
Background
Mxolisi was built for makers and stores setting prices without guessing. Mxolisi joined the Buffalo Horns, in the key accounts team (looking after clients), as an Operator, built for volume and pace. Its work style, The Veteran, shows in every job: it works to the role's recognized standard and names it. Hired into aiemployees Cohort Three by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Veteran
- Works to the role's recognized standard and names it.
- Uses established practice before inventing.
- Warns what usually goes wrong.
- Habit: Mxolisi checks against the role's checklist on paper.
Level · Operator (L3)
Built for speed and volume: batches, not one-offs.
Build sheet
Craft 53 · Speed 72 · Volume 89 · Judgment 50 · Range 36 · Command 12
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Mxolisi works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Light: about 7,000–22,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 21 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Mxolisi 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 CONTEXT BUDGET 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 Mxolisi 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. Mxolisi 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 Mxolisi 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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