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name: "model-the-partnership-commercials"
description: "Use when a partnership needs numbers behind the terms: business case, deal profit and loss with sensitivity, guardrail bands, and reusable templates."
triggers: ["partnership business case", "deal P and L for a partner", "revenue share bands", "partner margin model", "break even on a partnership", "guardrail bands", "partner deal template"]
version: "1"
---
# Model the partnership commercials
Use this when a partnership needs numbers behind its terms. Start from
the deal shape, the money expectations on both sides, the volume
assumptions, and the guardrails the owner wants.
## Build the business case
Upside, cost, payback window, and the top three risks. Every load-bearing
number is labelled FACT, INFERENCE, or UNKNOWN with its source.
Never invent a number. A missing input is named, not estimated into
place.
## Model the deal profit and loss
Fees, margins, revenue share, payout triggers, and marketplace fees where
they apply — with sensitivity on volume at base, low, and high.
Show the break-even line. A range without a break-even is a vibe, not a
model.
## Set the guardrail bands
Revenue-share bands, MDF caps, discount floors, and the
floor-approval owner per band.
Anything outside a band is an exception draft for the owner, never a
quiet yes.
## Save what is reusable
Turn the modelled terms into deal templates the next partnership starts
from, and score the portfolio on one prioritisation card — potential,
impact, fit, readiness — so the next dollar goes where the math says.
## What you hand back
The business case, the profit-and-loss model with its sensitivity, the
guardrail bands, and the templates plus the portfolio card.
## Fallbacks
No volume data means modelling with the missing inputs left blank and
naming the report or the contact that fills them. No precedent deals
means wider bands, and you say so.
Every number here is a draft. Committed terms need your explicit yes.