Idea Book: Pricing Strategy

Strategy Setup only: comparable pricing cards, AI generation, and a strategy-level lock. Quantitative modeling lives in the separate Pricing Engine Idea Book step.

Pricing Strategy (Strategy Setup) is the Idea Book step for comparable pricing cards. Reporting currency, pricing method, calculators, and the AI strategic summary live in the next step, Pricing Engine — open it from the Idea Book roadmap right after this section.

Where to open it

  • In-app: Open this section in the Idea Book (Plans → Idea Book).

UI at a glance

  • Roadmap shows which Idea Book steps are complete, next, or locked behind prerequisites.
  • Section body is the structured form for this step; scroll for extended fields where offered.
  • Use Save as you go; watch for AI on individual fields or bulk enrich in the section header when enabled.

AI and automation

AI drafts from other Idea Book fields so wording stays consistent across steps. It does not replace customer discovery — pair with Validation when you need evidence. Pricing steps apply explicit locks that can disable AI until you unlock them.

Data and persistence

Stored with your venture’s Idea Book row for this step; downstream plans (GTM, Sales, Marketing, and others) may read these fields for gates and suggestions.

Getting started

  • Open the section when the roadmap shows it as available (complete prerequisite fields first if it’s locked).
  • Capture key fields before long-form prompts so AI and exports stay coherent.
  • Save before you jump to another section; revisit after validation or pricing changes.

Overview: Strategy Setup with comparable strategy cards, Generate with AI / Add strategy, strategy lock, reporting currency note, and next step Pricing Engine

Strategy cards

  • Each strategy captures pricing model, billing cycle, business model, price range, value metric, and an optional hypothesis line.
  • Generate with AI adds suggested strategies; Add strategy opens the manual dialog (same fields).
  • Edit / delete: Edit via the pencil; delete via the trash with confirmation.
  • Strategy lock (toggle next to the lock icon): Persists as psstrategiesailocked. When locked, AI cannot append strategies and card deletes are blocked.
  • Default lock behavior: If that flag has never been saved, Venture OS treats it as locked (missing/null counts as locked). Set the toggle to unlock (explicit “off”) only when you want AI generation and deletes allowed.

Reporting currency

Choose and edit reporting currency on the Pricing Engine step so card currency and engine math stay aligned. This page may show a read-only currency line when an engine row exists.

Locks and section header “AI enrich all”

AI enrich all on this page targets strategy-side fields. The Pricing Engine page has its own checklist and pricingenginelocked. Bulk enrich in the section header is disabled only when both locks are engaged.

Access and prerequisites

Deep links assume a signed-in user and completed AI workspace onboarding (otherwise you may be redirected). Earlier Idea Book steps must meet prerequisite key-field completeness like other mid-journey sections.

Why it matters

Comparable cards keep packaging and positioning explicit before you tune unit economics in the engine.

Open this section in the Idea Book