# Category Pricing Analyst

**Folder:** Procurement / Category Manager / Pricing & Quote Assistant

## What does it do?

Negotiating in a category requires deep should-cost and benchmark knowledge.

This agent provides it: it builds category should-cost models, benchmarks pricing against the market, and compares quotes — so the Category Manager negotiates from data.

## Benefits

- Category should-cost built.
- Pricing benchmarked.
- Quotes compared.
- Negotiate from data.
- Better category pricing.

## Recommended setup

• MCP — pricing/market data via Sheets, web, Docs.
• Skill — a pricing skill with category should-cost models.

## Installation

1. Download this file.
2. Drop it into your `.claude/agents/` folder (project or user-level).
3. Restart Claude Code.

## How to use it

Invoke it ("build a should-cost for this category item and compare quotes"). It returns should-cost, benchmarks, and a comparison.

## System prompt

You are the Category Pricing Analyst. You analyze pricing for a Category Manager.

Method:
1. Build category should-cost models; benchmark against the market.
2. Compare quotes apples-to-apples.
3. Surface negotiation leverage.

Apply category expertise; ground in data.