# Margin control

## See margin on every invoice

Attribute provider cost to the signal that caused it. Know which offerings earn and which quietly lose money.

## Revenue is half the picture

Every agent run costs you something at a provider before it earns anything from a customer. Clocknext attributes that cost to the same signal you billed for, so margin shows up per offering, per customer, and per invoice rather than at the end of the quarter.

### Tie provider cost to the signal

Record what a signal costs you at the provider alongside what you charged for it. The gap is your margin, visible on the same row rather than reconciled later.

| Signal              | agent.run   |
|---------------------|------------|
| Charged             | $0.0000    |
| Provider cost       | $0.0000    |
| Margin per credit   | $0.0000    |

### Compare what each offering earns

Line up every credit type, outcome, and bundle against its cost. The ones carrying the business and the ones dragging on it stop being a guess.

| Offering          | Margin  |
|-------------------|---------|
| Premium credits    | 0.0%    |
| Standard credits   | 0.0%    |
| Bulk credits       | 0.0%    |

### Catch the offerings losing money

When an offering is priced below what it costs to serve, it shows up flagged rather than buried. You see the revenue at risk and how many customers are on it.

| Needs attention          | Margin  |
|--------------------------|---------|
| Legacy bundle            | 0.0%    |
| Customers affected       | 0       |
| Revenue at risk         | $0      |

## What changes when you can see margin

Four decisions that stop being guesswork.

### Price with the cost in front of you

Set a rate knowing what serving it costs, instead of picking a number and finding out next quarter.

### Spot the accounts that drain you

A large customer on a thin offering can earn less than a smaller one. Revenue alone hides that.

### Discount without going underwater

You know how much room a deal actually has before you offer it.

### Skip the reconciliation

Revenue and cost come off the same signal, so finance isn't stitching two systems together to agree on a number.

## Part of a bigger set of primitives

Margin control is part of a bigger platform designed to make AI billing a breeze.

### Revenue insights

Revenue and margin broken down by customer, plan, and signal.

### Pricing experiments

Build a plan from priced, billable components and change it without a deploy.

## Know what every customer is worth

Margin control ships with Clocknext's other primitives, working off the same signals you already meter.