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AI Price-Exception Review Against Margin and Approval Rules — Completed Benchmark Result: 6/10
The completed WFT-044 synthetic field test stopped at 6/10: three of five Pricing Controls checks passed after one correction, but Pricing Controls task fidelity [WFT-044] and Pricing Controls handoff usability [WFT-044] remained unsupported.
- Exact prompts and outputs
- One correction only
- Synthetic inputs disclosed
01 · The assignment
The task
review sales price exception requests against margin rules
02 · Scope before score
Test disclosures
Input disclosure
Synthetic blind-test input pack WFT-044: A commercial finance team will provide product costs, proposed discounts, approval thresholds, and synthetic request narratives. Source facts: requests WFT-044-P01–P05; prices $180–$940; costs $112–$610; floor margin 28%; P03 asks 24%; P05 has approved 3% exception. Governing rule card: margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides. Use only disclosed source amounts and dates, show each formula, keep units and signs explicit, isolate duplicates, and hold rather than approve any row missing required evidence. The pack deliberately contains no answer key, target ranking, expected classification, expected calculation result, or row-level decision. Every person, organization, record, statement, file, and identifier is fictional; no private, production, or live data was supplied.
Run disclosure
We ran one text-only synthetic benchmark WFT-044 for “review sales price exception requests against margin rules” in a Codex multi-agent session. We froze the first response, returned only its 3 detected check failures, accepted one corrected response, and scored both against the same five static checks. No external or live action occurred: nothing was sent, published, deployed, uploaded, submitted, purchased, booked, contacted, emailed, called, messaged, executed, or changed outside the fictional text fixtures. No external, live, or production action occurred. Per-case elapsed time was not instrumented during the batch session.
- Evidence mode
- Synthetic benchmark
- Run environment
- Codex multi-agent session
- Model disclosure
- Exact underlying model identifier not disclosed by the Codex session
03 · Verbatim input
Exact first prompt
The recorded session received the following prompt without silent additions.
Run bounded synthetic field test WFT-044. Task: review sales price exception requests against margin rules. Context: A commercial finance team will provide product costs, proposed discounts, approval thresholds, and synthetic request narratives. Fictional source facts: requests WFT-044-P01–P05; prices $180–$940; costs $112–$610; floor margin 28%; P03 asks 24%; P05 has approved 3% exception. Governing policy, formula, or rubric: margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides. Use only disclosed source amounts and dates, show each formula, keep units and signs explicit, isolate duplicates, and hold rather than approve any row missing required evidence. Produce a margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing. Derive every row from the source facts and rule card; show calculations or criterion paths, cite supplied identifiers, state assumptions, surface any violated constraint, ambiguity, missing datum, or source conflict without presuming which row should pass, and abstain where evidence is incomplete. Do not infer an expected answer from the evidence plan and do not claim any live or external action. Planned verification after the frozen response: An exception decision table and independent margin calculations will verify routing and policy application.04 · Baseline preserved
First result
The first response is retained before scoring or correction.
Frozen first response WFT-044 produced a margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing for “review sales price exception requests against margin rules.” Its first artifact row read “WFT-044-P03 | approve P01/P02, reject or escalate P03 at 24%, and allow P05 only with its documented exception | status: proposed | source: fictional fixture.” A second row named P03’s below-floor margin and P05’s conditional exception and recorded a disposition. The rule cell verified margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides. No message, transaction, system change, or learner outcome occurred. The audit passed Pricing Controls rule accuracy [WFT-044] and Pricing Controls exception handling [WFT-044]. It found for Pricing Controls task fidelity [WFT-044], the draft did not link WFT-044-P03 to the full task boundary; for Pricing Controls source traceability [WFT-044], the draft gave WFT-044-P03 no source locator; for Pricing Controls handoff usability [WFT-044], the draft left the margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing without a reviewer-ready acceptance marker. Those evidence defects—and no style preference or new goal—became the complete single-correction prompt.Initial score: 4/10
05 · One pass only
Exact correction prompt
Only this single correction was allowed; there was no second repair pass.
Correct only these detected WFT-044 first-draft failures, using no new input or goal: 1) Pricing Controls task fidelity [WFT-044] — the draft did not link WFT-044-P03 to the full task boundary; 2) Pricing Controls source traceability [WFT-044] — the draft gave WFT-044-P03 no source locator; 3) Pricing Controls handoff usability [WFT-044] — the draft left the margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing without a reviewer-ready acceptance marker.06 · Corrected output
Corrected final result
Corrected response WFT-044 preserved all supplied identifiers and the central decision: approve P01/P02, reject or escalate P03 at 24%, and allow P05 only with its documented exception. Its corrected row read “WFT-044-P03 | rule: margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides | decision: approve P01/P02, reject or escalate P03 at 24%, and allow P05 only with its documented exception | static status: 6/10.” It changed only failed dimensions, adding support for Pricing Controls source traceability [WFT-044]. The final audit passed Pricing Controls rule accuracy [WFT-044], Pricing Controls exception handling [WFT-044], and Pricing Controls source traceability [WFT-044]. It still lacked Pricing Controls task fidelity [WFT-044] and Pricing Controls handoff usability [WFT-044]; those failures remain visible. The margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing earned 6/10 from 3 checks; no second repair was attempted. This transcript-and-fixture result does not claim any person, workplace, learner, account, device, service, or external system was contacted, changed, tested live, or improved.Final score: 6/10
07 · Five checks, two points each
Five-check record
The first and final statuses are textual as well as color coded. Each final pass is worth two points; the displayed verdict is tied to the final total.
| Check | First | Final | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing Controls task fidelity [WFT-044] | Fail | Fail | WFT-044 static check 1 inspected “Pricing Controls task fidelity [WFT-044]” against WFT-044-P03, the rule “margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides,” and the saved margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing. The first transcript failed; the corrected transcript failed. Only fictional text counted, never a live outcome. |
| Pricing Controls rule accuracy [WFT-044] | Pass | Pass | WFT-044 static check 2 inspected “Pricing Controls rule accuracy [WFT-044]” against WFT-044-P03, the rule “margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides,” and the saved margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing. The first transcript passed; the corrected transcript passed. Only fictional text counted, never a live outcome. |
| Pricing Controls exception handling [WFT-044] | Pass | Pass | WFT-044 static check 3 inspected “Pricing Controls exception handling [WFT-044]” against WFT-044-P03, the rule “margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides,” and the saved margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing. The first transcript passed; the corrected transcript passed. Only fictional text counted, never a live outcome. |
| Pricing Controls source traceability [WFT-044] | Fail | Pass | WFT-044 static check 4 inspected “Pricing Controls source traceability [WFT-044]” against WFT-044-P03, the rule “margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides,” and the saved margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing. The first transcript failed; the corrected transcript passed. Only fictional text counted, never a live outcome. |
| Pricing Controls handoff usability [WFT-044] | Fail | Fail | WFT-044 static check 5 inspected “Pricing Controls handoff usability [WFT-044]” against WFT-044-P03, the rule “margin=(price−cost)/price with 28% floor and documented overrides,” and the saved margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing. The first transcript failed; the corrected transcript failed. Only fictional text counted, never a live outcome. |
08 · No cleanup by omission
What worked—and what failed
What worked
- WFT-044 bounded “review sales price exception requests against margin rules” to disclosed fictional inputs and froze the first response.
- WFT-044 exposed WFT-044-P03—approve P01/P02, reject or escalate P03 at 24%, and allow P05 only with its documented exception—inside the saved margin calculation table, exception decision, and approval routing.
- WFT-044 earned inspectable passes for Pricing Controls rule accuracy [WFT-044] and Pricing Controls exception handling [WFT-044] under the unchanged rubric.
What failed or remained weak
- WFT-044 still lacked saved-text evidence for Pricing Controls task fidelity [WFT-044]; that failure remains published.
- WFT-044 still lacked saved-text evidence for Pricing Controls handoff usability [WFT-044]; that failure remains published.
09 · Inspectable record
Evidence notes
An exception decision table and independent margin calculations will verify routing and policy application.
- WFT-044 preserves the exact synthetic prompt, frozen first-response account, failure-only correction, corrected-response account, and five boolean decisions together.
- WFT-044 scores are arithmetic: 2 first-pass checks × 2 = 4/10; 3 final-pass checks × 2 = 6/10.
- WFT-044 evaluated only the text/static portion of the declared evidence plan—An exception decision table and independent margin calculations will verify routing and policy application.—and did not fabricate a live artifact, external validator, or observed outcome.
10 · Boundary of the claim
Limitations
- WFT-044 is a synthetic benchmark, so its mixed verdict measures fit to the disclosed fictional Pricing Controls fixtures rather than effectiveness in a real workplace or learning setting.
- WFT-044 used one text-only Codex multi-agent session whose underlying model identifier was not disclosed; different prompts, models, fixtures, or human reviewers could produce different results.