Clear aged stock with confidence. Protect the margin you can still recover.
The Margin Recovery Agent models every aged style at three markdown depths, recommends the right channel and timing, checks your GTM calendar for conflicts, and projects the revenue recovery over a four-week clearance window — so every clearance decision is made with the full financial picture.
Clearance position this week
18
Styles requiring action
$47,200
Total stock at risk
$38,600
Recoverable at rec. depth
Priority clearance recommendations
SKU-2204 · Green Print Dress
Age: 11 wks · Stock: 34 units · Retail value: $9,180
25% off
$6,885 · 38% GM
35% off
$5,967 · 29% GM
50% off
$4,590 · 14% GM
Channel: EDM to lapsed customers + site banner
Timing: This week — no GTM conflicts
SKU-1893 · Cream Blazer Set
Age: 9 wks · Stock: 22 units · Retail value: $12,760
20% off
$10,208 · 44% GM
30% off
$8,932 · 34% GM
40% off
$7,656 · 22% GM
Channel: Site-wide sale only — email conflicts with campaign
Timing: Hold until 2 June — EDM window conflicts with EOSS
laminir. Margin Recovery Agent · Anchor-constrained
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The problem it solves
End-of-season clearance decisions are routinely made in an ad hoc meeting — someone pulls a stock report, eyeballs the aged styles, makes a gut call on markdown depth, and sends it to the team to execute. Nobody has modelled the margin impact at different depths. Nobody has checked whether a markdown conflicts with an upcoming campaign. Nobody has projected how long the stock will actually take to clear at that depth.
The result is almost always one of two failures. Too aggressive — the margin is destroyed when a shallower markdown would have cleared the stock anyway. Too conservative — stock doesn't move and carries into the next season at full cost, compounding the margin problem.
A single bad clearance decision on $50K of aged stock can cost $7,500 or more in recoverable margin. The Margin Recovery Agent prevents that by making the financial consequences of each option visible before the decision is made.
What the recommendation covers
Three depth options with margin modelling
For every aged style, three markdown depths are modelled — conservative, standard, and aggressive. Each option shows the retail revenue recovered, the gross margin percentage achieved, and the total margin dollars retained versus surrendered.
Channel recommendation
Based on the style's historical channel performance and current stock level — site-wide sale, targeted EDM to lapsed customers, paid retargeting, or in-store signage. The recommendation matches the channel to the style's most responsive audience.
GTM calendar conflict check
Before recommending a markdown this week, the agent checks your GTM calendar. If a campaign is within the window, the markdown is flagged for timing review — you don't want to cannibalise a planned activation with a clearance event.
Four-week revenue recovery projection
Based on current stock level and the sell-through velocity at the recommended markdown depth, the agent projects how much of the stock clears and what the total revenue recovery looks like over four weeks.
Every retailer has aged stock. Every retailer needs this.
Unlike the Style Action Agent which is specific to test-and-reorder fashion retailers, the Margin Recovery Agent is relevant to every retailer on the platform.
Fashion and apparel
End-of-season clearance, in-season markdown management on slow-moving styles, and range exit decisions. Works alongside the Style Action Agent — Style Action flags the style, Margin Recovery models the exit.
Homewares and lifestyle
Seasonal collections with defined sell-through windows. The agent flags styles approaching the end of their viable season and models the clearance at each depth before stock becomes a carry problem.
Beauty and consumables
Short shelf-life products, expiry-driven clearance windows, and promotional depth decisions. The agent prioritises expiry-risk stock and recommends channels that move volume quickly.
Multi-channel retailers
Clearance strategy varies by channel — what works site-wide won't necessarily work in-store. The agent accounts for channel-level sell-through rates when recommending where to execute.
Your margin posture shapes every recommendation.
A retailer committed to full-price integrity gets different clearance guidance than one prioritising volume exit. The strategic anchors you set — margin posture, brand positioning, full-price sell-through targets — are the decision rules the Margin Recovery Agent operates within.
Concretely: a luxury retailer with a full-price anchor won't receive a recommendation for a 50% site-wide markdown, even if that would clear the stock fastest. The agent will recommend a shallower depth through a targeted channel that preserves brand positioning. The math still gets done — the constraints just reflect what the business has said it stands for.
The agent doesn't just optimise for clearance speed. It optimises for clearance within the boundaries your business has set.