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Check the assumptions behind a card-fee change

A card scheme changes a fee, and your team writes down every assumption the estimate depends on. This app reads the bulletin and tells you exactly which of those assumptions still hold.

For the payments operations analystPayments & Fintech

Why it matters

Today's manual process, and the same job with the app

A payments operations analyst at a card network or a large merchant, reviewing fee-change bulletins every quarter.

✕Today's manual process

1Read the bulletin and copy every assumption line into a working sheet.
2Check the working to see whether each assumption is actually used in the arithmetic.
3Decide by memory which lines were withdrawn or borrowed from another bulletin.
4One line missed and the review pack rests on an assumption nobody meant to keep.
Every bulletin's assumptions checked manually

✓With the app

1The bulletin is read and every assumption line is pulled out automatically.
2Each line is checked against the working, so the arithmetic actually behind it is clear.
3Withdrawn and borrowed lines are dropped and only the assumptions that still stand are kept.
4The pack is complete with the owner named and ready for the pricing review.
The app checks every line for you

See it work

One real bulletin, and what the app decided

Bulletin FC-0007 raises a scheme fee; two printed lines don't belong in the estimate, and the app leaves both out.

Check the assumptions behind a card-fee changeReference appBuilt to be shaped to your process
  1. 1Backed out The analyst worked it out a different way, so this line is dropped.
  2. 2Borrowed for comparison Reproduced from another bulletin; it isn't part of this estimate.
  3. 3What the pack kept Four of the six printed lines still count toward the estimate.
  4. 4Where it lands The finished pack is marked complete and goes to the fee analyst.

For engineers

How it is built, and how we measured it

All fourteen steps of the build are written up, from the business case to running it in your own environment.

Kit overview →
78 of 80review packs exactly rightmeasured in 06 Evals →
327 of 329assumptions correctly kept in the packmeasured in 01 Business case →
0assumptions the bulletin doesn't supportmeasured in 01 Business case →
48¢to summarize all 80 bulletinsmeasured in 07 Unit cost →

The build, step by step

14 steps

Make it yours

What you see is a reference app. We shape it to how you work.

Every part of it is built to change, and none of it means starting over.

Your rulesYour materiality threshold, your rule for what counts as a standing assumption.
Your recordsYour own bulletins, portfolio extracts and impact workings, in the format you already file them.
Your systemsReads from your intake folder or shared drive; packs can post to your pricing system.
Your screensThe fields and wording your fee-change review already uses.

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