Every quote scored against cost floors, enforced by approval gates, with real-time margin visibility. Stop discovering margin leakage at month-end. Stop guessing on 30% of quotes.
Quebec pallet manufacturer. 47 jobs governed by Allometry's margin floor engine. Margin moved before the next job started — not after month-end close.
+12.4 margin points. Zero extra headcount. 30 days. That's not a better dashboard. That's underwriting every commercial decision before resources commit.
Margin protection runs inside the Quoting Engine. Every line item on every quote is scored against cost floors, contract terms, and the account's Pulse — in under 60 seconds, before the quote is sent.
Pulls SKU catalog, supplier cost data, active contract terms, account Pulse. Updates in real-time.
Per line item: real-time margin %, cost floor, variance vs historical, vs contract terms. Color-coded.
If margin above threshold → send. If below → hard block + route to approver with audit trail.
After close, realized margin feeds back. Cost floors update. Account Pulse refines. Every job sharpens it.
Every quote in Allometry has a scorecard attached. Reps see margin per line item in real time. Finance sees the composite. Governance gates kick in automatically — no spreadsheets, no Slack back-and-forth.
Margin protection isn't binary. Different thresholds trigger different responses. Reps get nudged. Managers get gates. Below-floor deals get hard-blocked until an exception is approved and logged.
Margin 5-10pt above floor. Rep sees amber indicator. No block. Creates habit of seeing margin live at quote-time.
Margin within 5pt of floor (or below). Quote can be built but not sent until manager approves. Approval logged to audit trail. Typical routing: VP Sales for margin-floor deals, CRO for strategic exceptions.
Below floor, zero exception approved, regulatory/contract breach. Hard block at send-time. Reason logged. Operator adjusts line items or escalates to policy override. Every override is auditable.
Margin Protection is one of the 16 action modules in Allometry. Sits in the PRICE loop. Reads from the Pulse. Powered by the address-level cost floor engine. Works seamlessly with Quoting, Cost Engine, and Contract Intelligence.
Design partners are seeing +8-12 margin points in 30 days with zero extra headcount. If you're quoting on instinct, you're leaving margin on the table every job.