pricing-algorithm-risk-triagelisted

# Pricing Algorithm Risk Triage ## Purpose Triage the antitrust exposure of a pricing recommender, dynamic-pricing engine, repricer, optimizer, or pricing-as-a-service deployment. The skill maps every data input and output — tracing which inputs reach competitor data directly, through a shared vendor, or through a pool — flags hub-and-spoke and signaling risks, tests the override and audit posture, and generates vendor-diligence and per-jurisdiction framework questions. Every flag is descriptive triage in a **draft for attorney review**: the skill never concludes concerted practice and never approves a deployment. ## Use When - The business wants to adopt a third-party repricing or dynamic-pricing tool and asks legal to clear the vendor. - An existing pricing algorithm ingests scraped competitor prices, a vendor data feed, or pooled industry data, and counsel needs the data flows mapped. - The pricing vendor is known or suspected to serve direct competitors with the same engine or data, raising hub-and-spoke questions. - Pricing teams have stopped overriding the algorithm's recommendations, or overrides are not logged, and the governance posture needs documenting. - News of algorithmic-pricing enforcement or litigation in the industry prompts a review of the company's own deployments. - Procurement or vendor management needs a diligence question list for a pricing-software contract or renewal. ## Required Inputs - **Jurisdiction(s) of competitive effect** — every countr