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Cost profiles

A cost profile is a rule that says what a position costs. Rather than typing a number onto every slot, you describe the shape of a position — an Engineer, at Senior, in London — and give that shape a price. Every slot matching it is costed automatically, and stays correct when you add more.

This is what makes a model answer financial questions. Change the structure and the cost follows, with no spreadsheet to keep in step.

What a profile looks like

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Field Notes
Role, Level, Location, Company The criteria. Any combination, all optional.
Cost What a matching position costs — typically fully-loaded annual cost.

How matching works

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A profile matches a slot when every criterion it names matches that slot. A criterion left blank is a wildcard: it matches anything.

So a profile with only Role = Engineer prices every engineer, wherever they are and whatever their level. Add Level = Senior and it prices only senior engineers.

When more than one profile matches, the most specific wins — the one naming the most criteria. This lets you layer a general rule and then override it for the cases that differ:

Profile Cost Applies to
Role = Engineer £100,000 Any engineer not covered below.
Role = Engineer, Level = Senior £130,000 Senior engineers, anywhere.
Role = Engineer, Location = NYC £120,000 Engineers in NYC, at any level.
Role = Engineer, Level = Senior, Location = NYC £150,000 Senior engineers in NYC.

Start broad and add exceptions as you find them. You don’t need a profile per combination — only per price.

Unmatched positions

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A slot that no profile matches is unmatched: it counts toward headcount but contributes nothing to cost. That would quietly understate your total, so Resorcerer surfaces it — the Summary shows an unmatched count, and the Problems view lists the slots concerned.

Treating that count as a to-do list is the fastest way to a trustworthy model: click through, see which combinations aren’t covered, and add the profiles that cover them.

Vacant positions cost money

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Cost is a property of the position, not the person, so a vacant slot is costed exactly like a filled one. The Summary reports filled cost and vacant cost separately, which is the number you want when arguing about a hiring plan: not what the team costs now, but what it will cost once it’s fully staffed.

Positions shared across units

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A slot belonging to several units is counted once for headcount, and its cost is divided between them, so unit-level rollups still sum to the model total rather than double-counting the shared position.

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