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FORECASTER · RESEARCH DRAFT
The Price Knows Your Name
What happens when your data helps decide what you pay?
The complete research draft is available here to read online. It remains open to revision; commissioning supports the finished, edited PDF edition.
Updated October 9, 2026. The finished, edited PDF edition is offered separately on the book details page.
Contents
- 01
One Product, Several Possible Prices
Define what changed before deciding why a buyer received a different offer.
- 02
The Clues Left by a Shopping Session
Follow the steps between collecting a signal and changing an offer, without treating prediction as understanding.
- 03
Recommendations, Discounts, and Discrimination
Separate who pays less from who gains overall, using a transparent synthetic market and the right comparisons.
- 04
What Pricing Intermediaries Actually Sell
Evaluate the evidence for pricing infrastructure without turning capability into a claim about every retailer.
- 05
How to Compare an Offer Intelligently
Learn what controlled audits can establish, what a null result leaves open and how to make a useful comparison.
- 06
The Argument over Fair Prices and Privacy
Assess distribution, privacy and alternatives together, then specify a public bargain that evidence could test.
Methods and Evidence
The review's scope, exact synthetic inputs, reproducible calculations and limits.