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CHEQUER: quoting

Three tasks

CHEQUER · for the price. Every line counted in the open, with no margin added.

Every quote would be computed from published rules: an estimated landed cost per unit, line by line, each line with its confidence and no margin added, plus one yearly subscription for the capacity and lead time you reserve. A hub fee that reaches your price shows as its own line. It is an estimate and says so, and it would be reconciled against real invoices once orders run.

Why the name. In the medieval English Exchequer, accounts were counted out on a chequered cloth, by a clerk seated so that he was visible to all.

Why it matters. The quote is the first thing a customer sees of Moduloa. If the number cannot be checked, nothing behind it will be believed.

The shadow system it is designed to replace. A costing spreadsheet beside the quote, where exchange rates, freight and duty are keyed in by hand and the estimate is rarely checked against the invoice. In the design, each line of the price would be computed from the intake package by published rules, name its source and confidence, and be checked against the real invoice in the same record.

Research behind it, strong. When the rate becomes the margin · The hidden factory is an office · The loop nobody closes · Capacity is a membership Four notes are about pricing itself, and two pages are written with sources. The gap is in the model: it has no quote or costed BOM object yet.

On the site: The price · Quoting · The economics · The terms

Stage 0 · nothing is built · three open tasks · reviewed 5 October 2026

Inside it

What it is made of

The pieces of the work that live in CHEQUER. Each is written as designed: none of it runs yet.

Pricing reserved capacity

The yearly fee is the second line of every quote (C-03).

What you would reserve is capacity and a lead time: so many units a year, shipped within so many days of an order, priced by one formula for every customer. Commitments like this are old, and so are their failure modes: cloud buyers commit for one or three years in exchange for large discounts, and in Flexera's 2026 survey organisations estimated that 29 percent of their cloud infrastructure and platform spend was wasted. The method for pricing it, including what happens to capacity you reserve and do not use, is not written yet, and no subscription has been sold.

On the site: Capacity and a lead time, reserved by the year · Capacity is a membership

Sources Flexera, State of the Cloud 2026 · AWS, Reserved Instances

Delivery terms and duty in the price

The delivery term decides which lines the price includes (C-02).

The standard example price is quoted DAP to the address you name: Moduloa would book and pay transport and carry the risk until delivery, and you would clear the goods for import. The ICC's own introduction to Incoterms 2020 advises sellers to use FCA instead of EXW, and DAP or DPU instead of DDP where import duties fall in the buyer's country, so FCA is the collect option and DDP is by agreement only. Duty is shown beside the price as an estimate. Whether part of the subscription counts toward customs value under EU customs law is an open question.

Who imports in each market is WAYBILL's question.

On the site: The economics: delivery terms

Sources ICC, Introduction to Incoterms 2020, paragraph 22 · Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 952/2013, Article 70(2)

The work

Tasks

Several people can work on the same task, each with its own deliverable. Ask to commit with the link on a task: name what you will deliver and a date no more than three months after it is accepted.

C-01Open

Landed cost line model v0.1

Done when
Every line of a unit price is defined in the order the economics page sets, from the costed BOM through freight, assembly and test to delivery at FCA and at DAP, with estimated import duty and VAT shown separately. Each line names where its number comes from and how its confidence is set, and no line carries a margin. EX-100 is worked through with every figure marked fictional.
Effort
Three to four weeks, part time
Stage 0 plan
On the timeline as “Sample quote model”

Ask to commit to C-01 →

C-02Open

One lane, priced three ways

Done when
One EX-100 order from a hub in Norway to an address in Germany is priced DAP, FCA and DDP. A table names, for each, who declares, who pays duty and import VAT, which documents are needed and what each step costs to arrange, and every sentence of the economics page's delivery terms is marked confirmed or corrected.
Stretch
Whether part of the subscription counts toward customs value under Article 70(2) of the Union Customs Code, answered, or routed to a binding ruling with the documents it would need.
Effort
One to two weeks, part time

Ask to commit to C-02 →

C-03Open

Subscription formula v0.1

Done when
The yearly fee is written as a function of units a year and lead-time days, with the 85 percent cap, rollover, resize and service credits in it, a rule for capacity reserved and not used, and how a one-time build is charged. EX-100 is worked at one low and one high annual volume.
Effort
Three to four weeks, part time

Ask to commit to C-03 →

The honest limits

What is open, and what would prove it

  • The rate card and the subscription formula are promised, not published.
  • Half the fee used to be deductible against a handling rate that no longer exists, so what makes unused capacity survivable needs a replacement (C-03).
  • Whether the subscription counts toward customs value has not been tested with a broker or a ruling (C-02).
  • How a one-time build is charged waits on the tier revision.
  • The playthrough still shows a unit total of materials and labour only, with no freight, duty or subscription line. C-01 is what corrects it.

On the register

  • P-09 · due 31 December 2036 · open · customers pay a premium for the option to move production
  • P-11 · due 31 December 2036 · open · customers buy production tiers, not just production
  • P-15 · due 31 December 2046 · open · manufacturing capacity comes to work like cloud capacity
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Reviewed 5 October 2026 · next review by 2 November 2026 · Questions go to seat 001, the founder · Corrections welcome
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