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Pricing research

Pricing Research Tool

Use a pricing research tool to inspect willingness to pay, buyer value signals, competitor pricing, packaging assumptions, discount pressure, and pricing research gaps before setting the price.

Built for scenario planning, not certainty. Every output should be reviewed against real evidence before an operating decision.

Scenario tape / illustrative

Pricing research for a package and value metric decision

Pricing read
R1
Target segmentValue metric questioned
R2
Sales notesObjection pattern appears
R3
CompetitorsAnchor price reframes

Dominant question

Will buyers pay?

Research gap

Willingness to pay

Next test

Price proof

Input

Pricing notes, segments, competitors

Engine

Buyer, competitor, and package evidence review

Output

Pricing gaps and research plan

What to bring

Bring pricing assumptions before they become a public offer.

A pricing research tool is most useful when B2B and SaaS teams have early price ideas, segment notes, competitor anchors, sales objections, or interview evidence that needs to be organized into clear research questions.

Pricing and packaging assumptions

Proposed tiers, value metric options, included limits, discount logic, migration rules, and the pricing hypothesis behind the offer.

Customer and sales evidence

Interview notes, win-loss feedback, renewal objections, support themes, buyer language, and the moments when price becomes a blocker.

Competitive pricing context

Competitor pricing pages, alternative tools, procurement norms, price anchors, bundle comparisons, and switching-cost assumptions.

Where it earns its keep

Turn pricing uncertainty into research questions.

Pricing research is not just choosing a number. It is finding what buyers believe they are paying for, what alternatives anchor the decision, and which evidence is still missing.

Willingness to pay01

See which value signal needs proof.

Map buyer language, pain intensity, budget context, and willingness to pay evidence into questions your team can validate before price is locked.

Packaging research02

Test whether the tier logic makes sense.

Inspect value metric options, tier boundaries, usage limits, and upgrade moments that may confuse or weaken the offer.

Competitive anchor03

Find where competitor pricing changes the frame.

Compare buyer alternatives, discount expectations, bundle assumptions, and switching stories before the price page does the selling.

Pricing research needs evidence before precision.

MiroFish turns pricing notes, competitor pricing context, customer evidence, and packaging assumptions into an inspectable map of buyer questions and validation gaps.

  1. Stage 1

    Ground the scenario

    Upload source material and define the decision, event, or message you want to test.

  2. Stage 2

    Build the actor graph

    Map the people, groups, incentives, constraints, and memory that shape the reaction.

  3. Stage 3

    Run reaction rounds

    Let the simulated actors respond over multiple rounds so the second-order path appears.

  4. Stage 4

    Question the report

    Review the trajectory, risks, weak assumptions, and what evidence would change the conclusion.

What the report should answer

The report should make the next pricing test obvious.

  • Which buyer segment has the clearest willingness to pay evidence
  • Which pricing assumption depends on weak or missing proof
  • Which competitor anchor can distort perceived value
  • Which package boundary or value metric may confuse buyers
  • Which research question should be answered before setting price

Boundary conditions

Not a perfect-price calculator.

  • Not guaranteed revenue, churn, or conversion prediction
  • Not a replacement for interviews, conjoint studies, Van Westendorp surveys, or live experiments
  • Not live competitor monitoring unless current pricing sources are provided
  • Not useful when the target segment or pricing hypothesis is undefined

Why MiroFish

Pricing research needs buyer evidence, not generic advice.

Generic AI can summarize a pricing memo. MiroFish helps teams inspect the evidence behind the price and decide what must be researched next.

Pricing input

Generic AI

Summarizes proposed tiers

MiroFish

Maps pricing assumptions to buyer evidence and gaps

Buyer view

Generic AI

General willingness to pay advice

MiroFish

Segment-specific value signals, objections, and proof needs

Next action

Generic AI

Broad pricing suggestions

MiroFish

Research questions for interviews, surveys, sales review, or simulation

FAQ

Pricing research tool, without false certainty.

The goal is to improve pricing evidence and research focus before a number turns into a public commitment.

What is a pricing research tool?+

A pricing research tool helps teams organize customer evidence, competitor pricing, packaging assumptions, and willingness to pay signals before choosing or changing a price. MiroFish turns that material into research questions and evidence gaps.

How is it different from pricing simulation AI?+

Pricing research focuses on the evidence behind a pricing decision. Pricing simulation AI rehearses how customers, competitors, and sales teams may react after a proposed pricing change is defined.

What should I upload?+

Upload pricing notes, tier drafts, value metric ideas, interview summaries, sales objections, win-loss notes, competitor pricing pages, packaging research, or customer support themes.

Can it calculate the perfect price?+

No. MiroFish does not claim to calculate the perfect price. It helps expose weak assumptions, missing evidence, competitor anchors, and research questions that should be validated before setting price.

Who should use it?+

Founders, product marketers, product managers, RevOps teams, sales leaders, and pricing teams can use it before creating a price page, changing packages, or planning a B2B pricing research sprint.

Research before rollout

Find the pricing evidence gap before the price hardens.

Bring pricing notes, customer evidence, competitor pages, or package ideas. MiroFish will turn them into a pricing research map your team can inspect.

Start pricing research