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CalculationShape.

One of the few ways a buyer profile earns value from an offering, as a driver tree over role names that a business model binds to its own drivers: a sales pipeline to a recurring contract; a client won then a retainer over its tenure; a proposal won then a project; a deal then margin on goods; a player or member…

Figure 1CalculationShapespecified
CALCULATIONSHAPErow at platform scopeA to F today; a new shape is a new rowlettertextnametexthow the buyer earns, in one sentencewhattextthe roots over role names, one per outputtree[DriverNode]the role names a business model binds to its driversroles[text]incremental value, cost, return, paybackoutputs[text]DRIVERNODEthrough tree
CalculationShape is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.
kind
row
scope
platform
key
its letter
store
postgres
family
market

Fields#

fieldtyperequirednote
lettertextyesA to F today; a new shape is a new row
nametextyes
whattextyeshow the buyer earns, in one sentence
treeDriverNodeyesthe roots over role names, one per output
roles[text]yesthe role names a business model binds to its drivers
outputs[text]yesincremental value, cost, return, payback

Routes that use it#

No route takes or returns CalculationShape directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.