Outcomes
Compose a result from ordered steps, price each step with its own calculator, and set the margin once on the finished outcome.
An outcome is a named result made of ordered steps. Each step carries its own calculator and base price, those base prices sum, and a margin sits on top. That gives you one price per result with the model costs underneath it accounted for.
Composition
An outcome is a named result made of ordered steps. Give it an agent key, add the steps the agent works through, and that sequence becomes the thing you bill for.
New outcome
Agent key
ticket-resolution
Steps
3, in order
Description
Self-service ticket agent
Active
Base price, all steps
$1.0000
Step pricing
Every step carries its own calculator and its own base price, so a step on a cheap model and a step on a frontier model are costed separately. The step prices add up to the outcome's base price.
Step base prices
Analysis
$0.5275
Drafting
$0.3120
Resolution
$0.1605
Outcome base price
$1.0000
Margin
Set a margin once on the outcome and it applies to the summed base price of every step. Change a model underneath and the base price moves; the margin holds.
Outcome pricing
Base price, all steps
$1.0000
Margin
75%
Price per outcome
$4.00
Usage-based pricing is a good indicator of adoption, but outcome-based pricing is a powerful lever for success and efficiency.
A customer knows what a resolved ticket is worth to them. It's harder to attach value to a token count.
When a model gets cheaper or you switch providers, your price holds, moving the margin in your favor.
An outcome can run analysis on a cheap model and drafting on a frontier one. Each step is costed separately and rolls into a single base price.
Outcomes sit alongside credits and units in the same plan. Charge per result where it makes sense and meter usage everywhere else.
Outcomes are part of a bigger platform designed to make AI billing a breeze.
Outcomes ship with Clocknext's other pricing primitives, ready to combine with wallets, credits, and units in a single plan.