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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.
- Built a proposal simulator & validator that replaced an external tool, automating proposal generation and post-negotiation financial validation.
- Launched dynamic per-bus pricing ("smart discount") on an architecture designed to evolve into ML without a rewrite, and moved margin guardrails from spreadsheets to real time.
- +66%
- GMV YoY (Q1)
- +37%
- contribution margin YoY
- 1.20% → 0.63%
- operational inefficiency over GMV
- 100%
- inventory occupancy (from ~96%)