chapter 01 / the first offer
lowball.dev
A bargaining ledger for numbers that arrive dusty, underbuilt, and suspiciously small.
$128
$128
$128
first price
chapter 02 / the shake
Bad math refuses to sit still.
When a number ignores labor, risk, time, and floor value, the page rejects it before anyone says a word.
too thin →
missing labor ↘
no room for tools ↗
TOO LOW
$128
chapter 03 / the counter-sketch
Evidence scraps slide into the offer.
Triangles warn, rectangles stack costs, diamonds mark the floor, and the pencil line becomes a counter argument.
materials +$240
risk
labor +$580
floor
revision room +$160
counter offer $1,108
chapter 04 / the fair floor
The tag steadies when the floor is named.
The final mark keeps the clay warning, warms through mustard pencil, and lands in moss shadow: firm, earthy, and hard to kick lower.
fair floor
$1,108
$128
$1,108