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Scaling a low-fare pricing product: year one
From manual spreadsheets to a pricing platform — +66% GMV YoY
The problem
ClickBus' low-fare product — advance purchase of carrier seat inventory resold with dynamic fares — was relevant but couldn't scale: billing was 100% manual, margin guardrails lived in spreadsheets with no real-time integration, discounts were fixed regardless of context, campaign management was fragmented, there was zero experimentation infrastructure, and search responded in ~400ms. Roughly 9% of purchased seats expired unsold.
What I did
- Shipped a unified campaign-management platform: parameterized search, 360° campaign view, one-click activation via API.
- Built a proposal simulator & validator that automated commercial proposal generation and post-negotiation financial validation — replacing an external tool dependency.
- Launched dynamic per-bus pricing ("smart discount") on a 3-layer architecture deliberately designed to evolve from decision matrix to ML without a rewrite.
- Automated billing end to end (balance write-off, mark-up, guardrails, over-sale) and moved margin guardrails from spreadsheets to real-time calculation in the database.
- Stood up permanent experimentation infrastructure (Unleash + Amplitude) and ran the company's first incrementality A/B test.