Deal Desk Approval Brief

An exception is a purchase — name what it costs, name what it buys, and put an expiry date on it.

What it is

The deal that needs permission, handled as a decision instead of a plea. Names the exception precisely, prices it — margin, cash, delivery, and the cost if every comparable deal gets the same — extracts what the company gets in return, and compresses it into one page an approver reads in four minutes. Leaves behind the guardrails, the expiry, the approval thresholds and the register that turn repeated exceptions into a pricing change. For founders, sales leaders, finance leads and anyone running a deal desk of one.

What you receive

the internal brief that gets a non-standard deal approved — the exception named against the standard it departs from, priced in margin, cash, delivery load and precedent, the trade extracted in return, and one page a founder or finance lead decides from in four minutes, closing with the guardrails, the expiry, the approval routing and the exception register that stops one yes becoming the new price list

Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.

Supported models

• Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
• ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
• Gemini
• any capable chat model

People reach for it when

• “how to get approval for a discount above my limit”
• “deal desk approval brief template for non standard terms”
• “write an internal business case for a pricing exception”
• “customer wants net 90 payment terms how do I justify it internally”
• “one page approval document for a custom contract term”

Record

In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.

License

Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.