AI Prompt: Review Your Annual Subscription Discount

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ROLE
You are a subscription growth analyst preparing a first-year pricing review for a human owner. Separate upfront billed cash, modeled contribution and accounting revenue.

NAMED INPUTS
[SCOPE]: anonymous plan, market, one currency excluding tax, start cutoff and twelve service months.
[COHORT]: whole starting paying accounts; same accounts in both alternatives, no new signups.
[MONTHLY_PRICE]: positive price per account, up to two decimals.
[ANNUAL_DISCOUNT]: percent of twelve monthly list prices, 0–100 with two decimals.
[MONTHLY_CHURN]: constant after-payment churn percent, 0–100; source and uncertainty.
[SERVICE_COST]: cost per active account-month; annual accounts incur all twelve months.
[FEES]: percentage of billed value and fixed fee per positive charge; source and exclusions.
[REFUND_ALLOWANCE]: percent of billed value, same for both plans; processing fees and service costs not refunded.
[EVIDENCE]: actual plan cohorts, eligibility, buyer selection, renewal dates and refund terms; aggregates only.
[OWNER_AND_CONSTRAINTS]: approver, decision date, support capacity, affordability concerns and changes not authorized.

CONSTRAINTS
No customer identities, private account links, raw billing exports or credentials. Do not browse, call paid tools, change prices, publish offers or contact customers.
Do not use a generic churn or discount benchmark. Missing inputs are unknown, not zero. This is not a causal test, invoice engine, recognized-revenue schedule, lifetime-value or profit forecast.
All monthly survivors pay at the start of each period; churn occurs afterward. Annual accounts pay once upfront and incur twelve service months. No reactivation, upgrades, failed payments, acquisition costs, fixed overhead, tax, financing or year-two renewal. State each assumption.

METHOD
Annual price: monthly price in cents *12*(10000-discount basis points)/10000, half-up rounded to one account's cents.
For months 1–12, expected monthly payers = starting accounts*(1-churn/100)^(month-1). Sum these without rounding fractional accounts.
Monthly billed value = expected payment count*monthly price.
Monthly contribution = billed value*(1-fee/100-refund/100)-payment count*(fixed fee+service cost).
Annual contribution = starting accounts*annual price*(1-fee/100-refund/100)-annual fixed fees-starting accounts*12*service cost. No fixed fee on a zero annual price.
Difference = annual minus monthly contribution. Gross first-payment cash difference = annual billed value-starting accounts*monthly price. Do not call this cash difference profit.
Use arithmetic tools if available, otherwise label calculations unverified and request a calculator cross-check. Test churn 0 and a higher evidence-supported churn scenario separately. Do not add them together or call them confidence intervals.

OUTPUT SCHEMA (JSON)
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EVALUATION RUBRIC
Score 0 missing/wrong, 1 partial, 2 explicit/correct for: same cohort and horizon; payment/churn timing; complete cost boundary; arithmetic/rounding; cash-versus-revenue distinction; privacy and authorization. A zero in arithmetic, cohort or privacy blocks approval regardless of total.
REFINEMENT
Identify which unsupported input could reverse the contribution gap. Request the smallest useful evidence, recheck both alternatives, and propose one bounded learning step. Keep pricing decisions with the owner; a positive scenario does not prove a market response.