% Final thesis defense (PHANTOM) % Build: cd paper/defense && pdflatex defense.tex && pdflatex defense.tex \documentclass[aspectratio=169,11pt]{beamer} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{appendixnumberbeamer} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta,calc,positioning,fit,shapes.geometric,shapes.misc} \graphicspath{{../src/chapters/figures/results/generated/final/plots/}{../src/chapters/}} \usetheme[ progressbar=frametitle, ]{moloch} \molochset{sectionpage=none,subsectionpage=none} \usefonttheme{professionalfonts} \setbeamertemplate{frame numbering}[fraction] % Palette \definecolor{PhantomPaper}{HTML}{F6F1E9} \definecolor{PhantomInk}{HTML}{0F1B2D} \definecolor{PhantomSlate}{HTML}{24364C} \definecolor{PhantomCyan}{HTML}{C97A3D} \definecolor{PhantomIndigo}{HTML}{2F8F8A} \setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=PhantomSlate,bg=PhantomPaper} \setbeamercolor{alerted text}{fg=PhantomCyan!95!black} \setbeamercolor{example text}{fg=PhantomIndigo!95!black} \setbeamercolor{palette primary}{fg=white,bg=PhantomInk} \setbeamercolor{frametitle}{parent=palette primary} \setbeamercolor{progress bar}{fg=PhantomCyan,bg=PhantomInk!28!white} \setbeamercolor{title separator}{use=progress bar,parent=progress bar} \setbeamercolor{structure}{fg=PhantomIndigo!90!black} \setbeamercolor{block title}{fg=white,bg=PhantomIndigo!85!black} \setbeamercolor{block body}{fg=PhantomSlate,bg=PhantomIndigo!8!white} \setbeamercolor{alertblock title}{fg=white,bg=PhantomCyan!92!black} \setbeamercolor{alertblock body}{fg=PhantomSlate,bg=PhantomCyan!10!white} \setbeamercolor{exampleblock title}{fg=white,bg=PhantomIndigo!70!black} \setbeamercolor{exampleblock body}{fg=PhantomSlate,bg=PhantomIndigo!8!white} \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} \setbeamertemplate{itemize item}{\small\raise0.3ex\hbox{$\bullet$}} \setbeamertemplate{itemize subitem}{\tiny\raise0.2ex\hbox{$\circ$}} \hypersetup{colorlinks=true,urlcolor=PhantomIndigo!90!black,linkcolor=PhantomSlate} \title{PHANTOM} \subtitle{Pricing Heuristics Against Non-human Transaction Orchestration Mechanisms} \author{Daniel Rösel} \institute{IE University, Madrid \\ Supervisor: Alberto Martín Izquierdo} \date{\today} \titlegraphic{% \begin{tikzpicture} \shade[left color=PhantomCyan,right color=PhantomIndigo] (0,0) rectangle (0.55\paperwidth,0.06); \end{tikzpicture}% } \newcommand{\stagebar}[1]{} \newcommand{\metriccard}[2]{% \begin{tikzpicture} \node[ draw=PhantomInk, rounded corners=3pt, fill=PhantomCyan!10, minimum width=3.05cm, minimum height=1.25cm, align=center ] {\Large\bfseries #1\\[-0.2em]{\scriptsize #2}}; \end{tikzpicture}% } \begin{document} { \setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=PhantomInk} \begin{frame}[plain] \vfill \centering {\color{white}\Huge\bfseries PHANTOM\par} \vspace{0.6em} {\color{PhantomCyan}\rule{0.45\paperwidth}{0.06cm}\par} \vspace{0.8em} {\large\color{white!90!black}Pricing heuristics against non-human transaction orchestration\par} \vfill {\color{white!75!black}\normalsize Daniel Rösel\par} {\color{white!65!black}\small IE University \textbullet\ Supervisor: Alberto Martín Izquierdo\par} \vspace{1.2em} {\footnotesize\color{PhantomCyan!80!white}\href{https://velocitatem.github.io/PHANTOM/}{\texttt{velocitatem.github.io/PHANTOM}}} \vfill \end{frame} } \begin{frame}{Roadmap: one argument in six stages (15 min)} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[ font=\scriptsize\sffamily, stage/.style={draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=3pt,fill=PhantomCyan!10,minimum width=1.95cm,minimum height=1.05cm,align=center}, flow/.style={-{Stealth[length=2.0mm,width=1.8mm]},line width=1pt,PhantomSlate} ] \node[stage,fill=PhantomCyan!14] (intro) {Intro\\2m}; \node[stage,right=0.30cm of intro] (platform) {Platform\\4m}; \node[stage,right=0.30cm of platform] (signal) {Signal\\4m}; \node[stage,right=0.30cm of signal] (drrl) {DR-RL\\4m}; \node[stage,right=0.30cm of drrl] (results) {Results\\1m}; \node[stage,right=0.30cm of results] (close) {Close}; \draw[flow,shorten <=2pt,shorten >=2pt] (intro.east) -- (platform.west); \draw[flow,shorten <=2pt,shorten >=2pt] (platform.east) -- (signal.west); \draw[flow,shorten <=2pt,shorten >=2pt] (signal.east) -- (drrl.west); \draw[flow,shorten <=2pt,shorten >=2pt] (drrl.east) -- (results.west); \draw[flow,shorten <=2pt,shorten >=2pt] (results.east) -- (close.west); \end{tikzpicture} \vspace{0.75em} \begin{block}{Main research question} How can dynamic pricing preserve margin integrity when transactions are increasingly mediated by non-human agents? \end{block} \stagebar{1} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Agentic recon creates direct financial pressure on pricing power} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[ font=\small\sffamily, flow/.style={draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=6pt,minimum width=5.3cm,minimum height=1.25cm,align=center}, note/.style={draw=PhantomInk!55,rounded corners=4pt,minimum width=11.2cm,minimum height=0.95cm,align=center,fill=white,font=\scriptsize} ] \node[flow,fill=PhantomCyan!18] (recon) at (-3.1,1.1) {\textbf{Recon session}\\samples multiple quotes}; \node[flow,fill=PhantomIndigo!16] (buy) at (3.1,1.1) {\textbf{Clean execution session}\\buys using the best found quote}; \draw[-{Stealth[length=3mm]},ultra thick,PhantomSlate] (recon.east) -- (buy.west); \node[font=\scriptsize\bfseries,text=PhantomSlate] at (0,1.98) {query and purchase are decoupled}; \draw[densely dashed,thick,PhantomCyan!90!black] (recon.south east) .. controls +(1.15,-0.95) and +(-1.15,-0.95) .. (buy.south west); \node[note] at (0,-0.65) {The platform sees behavior proxy $\hat q$, while true demand response $d(p\mid\theta)$ stays latent.}; \end{tikzpicture} \vspace{0.25em} \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\scriptsize\sffamily, card/.style={draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=4pt,minimum width=3.85cm,text width=3.55cm,minimum height=1.4cm,align=center}] \node[card,fill=PhantomInk,text=white] at (-4.05,0) {\large$\mathrm{COI}(\pi)=\mathbb{E}[P]-\underline p$\\[-0.05em]\footnotesize pricing power KPI}; \node[card,fill=PhantomCyan!16,text=PhantomSlate] at (0,0) {\Large\bfseries$-9{,}014$\\[-0.05em]\footnotesize revenue units\\per +0.1 contamination}; \node[card,fill=PhantomIndigo!12,text=PhantomSlate] at (4.05,0) {\large$\lim_{N\to\infty}\mathrm{COI}=0$\\[-0.05em]\footnotesize theorem-level pressure}; \end{tikzpicture} \vspace{0.15em} {\footnotesize\textbf{Implication:} if quote discovery and purchase split, standard session-based pricing overestimates willingness to pay.} \stagebar{1} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{The thesis answers one chain: mechanism \(\to\) signal \(\to\) control} \begin{enumerate}[<+->]\setlength{\itemsep}{0.45em} \item \textbf{Mechanism (SQ2):} independent reconnaissance pushes realizable price toward the order-statistics floor. \item \textbf{Signal (SQ1):} human and agent sessions are behaviorally separable from trajectories alone. \item \textbf{Control (SQ3):} the session score feeds a robust pricing learner under contamination uncertainty. \end{enumerate} \vspace{0.35em} \stagebar{1} \end{frame} \section{Platform Development} \begin{frame}{Stage 1: We built a dual-loop platform to observe behavior and price exposure together} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[ font=\scriptsize\sffamily, box/.style={draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=3pt,minimum width=2.5cm,minimum height=0.9cm,align=center}, arr/.style={-{Stealth[length=2.2mm]},thick,PhantomSlate} ] \node[box,fill=PhantomCyan!14] (actors) at (0,1.45) {Humans + Agents}; \node[box,fill=white] (web) at (2.9,1.45) {Next.js\\storefront}; \node[box,fill=white] (provider) at (5.8,1.45) {Pricing\\provider}; \node[box,fill=white] (redis) at (8.7,1.45) {Redis\\serve layer}; \node[box,fill=PhantomIndigo!10,minimum width=3.1cm] (kafka) at (4.35,-0.15) {Kafka topics\\behavior + price logs}; \node[box,fill=PhantomCyan!10,minimum width=2.8cm] (airflow) at (8.0,-0.15) {Airflow + worker\\batch updates}; \draw[arr] (actors) -- (web); \draw[arr] (web) -- (provider); \draw[arr] (provider) -- (redis); \draw[arr] (web.south) -- (kafka.north west); \draw[arr] (provider.south) -- (kafka.north east); \draw[arr] (kafka) -- (airflow); \draw[arr] (airflow.north) -| (redis.south); \draw[arr] (redis.west) to[bend left=35] (provider.east); \node[font=\tiny\itshape,text=PhantomSlate] at (2.2,-1.0) {Kappa: streaming telemetry}; \node[font=\tiny\itshape,text=PhantomSlate] at (8.1,-1.0) {Lambda: offline learning + refresh}; \end{tikzpicture} \vspace{0.35em} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item Every quote has a matching behavioral context in the log stream. \item The same architecture supports reproducible stress tests before any live deployment. \end{itemize} \stagebar{2} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Dataset card: compact, labeled, and experiment-ready} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.60\textwidth} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[ font=\scriptsize\sffamily, chip/.style={draw=PhantomInk!40,rounded corners=2pt,inner sep=2.7pt}, body/.style={anchor=west,text width=6.0cm,align=left,font=\scriptsize} ] \node[draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=5pt,fill=white,minimum width=6.85cm,minimum height=4.45cm] at (0,0) {}; \node[anchor=west,font=\footnotesize\bfseries,text=PhantomInk] at (-3.2,1.72) {WhoClickedIt dataset card}; \node[anchor=west,draw=PhantomInk!35,rounded corners=2pt,fill=PhantomCyan!10,inner xsep=4pt,inner ysep=3pt,font=\scriptsize\ttfamily,text=PhantomSlate] at (-3.2,1.22) {huggingface.co/datasets/velocitatem/whoclickedit}; \node[anchor=west,chip,fill=PhantomCyan!12] at (-3.2,0.65) {\textbf{Rows} 3874}; \node[anchor=west,chip,fill=PhantomCyan!12] at (-1.70,0.65) {\textbf{Cols} 42}; \node[anchor=west,chip,fill=PhantomCyan!12] at (-0.25,0.65) {\textbf{Sessions} 36}; \node[anchor=west,chip,fill=PhantomIndigo!12] (humanrows) at (-3.2,0.03) {\textbf{Human rows} 798}; \node[anchor=west,chip,fill=PhantomIndigo!12] at ([xshift=0.16cm]humanrows.east) {\textbf{Agent rows} 3076}; \node[body,text=PhantomSlate] at (-3.2,-0.68) {Flat schema and explicit actor labels simplify session-aware train/test splits.}; \node[body,font=\tiny\itshape,text=PhantomSlate!85] at (-3.2,-1.36) {Kafka provenance is retained for reproducibility and downstream analysis.}; \end{tikzpicture} \column{0.38\textwidth} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\scriptsize\sffamily, stat/.style={draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=5pt,minimum width=4.95cm,minimum height=1.33cm,align=center}] \node[stat,fill=PhantomInk,text=white] at (0,1.95) {\Large\bfseries 13 H / 16 A\\[-0.1em]\footnotesize labeled trajectories in thesis cohort}; \node[stat,fill=PhantomCyan!14,text=PhantomSlate] at (0,0.25) {\Large\bfseries 45\% / 55\%\\[-0.1em]\footnotesize human/agent trajectory split}; \node[stat,fill=PhantomIndigo!12,text=PhantomSlate] at (0,-1.45) {\Large\bfseries 2 streams\\[-0.1em]\footnotesize interaction + price-log records}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{columns} \stagebar{2} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Experimental design controls goals, not navigation paths} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.58\textwidth} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[ font=\scriptsize\sffamily, box/.style={draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=3pt,minimum width=3.65cm,minimum height=0.95cm,align=center}, arr/.style={-{Stealth[length=2.2mm]},thick,PhantomSlate} ] \node[box,fill=PhantomCyan!14] (tasks) at (0,1.8) {JTBD task pool\\hotel + airline modes}; \node[box,fill=white] (assign) at (0,0.55) {Random assignment\\mode + task + actor id}; \node[box,fill=PhantomIndigo!12] (run) at (0,-0.7) {Execution\\human or browser-use agent}; \node[box,fill=white] (logs) at (0,-1.95) {Session logs\\$e=(a,i,t,\mu,\delta)$ + quotes}; \draw[arr] (tasks) -- (assign); \draw[arr] (assign) -- (run); \draw[arr] (run) -- (logs); \end{tikzpicture} \column{0.40\textwidth} \begin{itemize}[<+->]\setlength{\itemsep}{0.55em} \item Agents run with \textbf{browser-use} and a model-swappable LLM router (default \texttt{gpt-5-mini}). \item Tasks are defined by outcomes, not scripted clicks, to preserve behavioral variety. \item Current release is stronger on hotel flows than airline flows. \end{itemize} \end{columns} \stagebar{2} \end{frame} \section{Distinguishability Construction} \begin{frame}{Stage 2: A behavior kernel is a compact signature of navigation dynamics} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.48\textwidth} \begin{block}{Definition} \[ \hat P(s'\mid s)=\frac{N(s,s')}{\sum_k N(s,k)} \] \end{block} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item Build one kernel per session, then prototypes for human and agent cohorts. \item Compare each incoming session to both prototypes with KL divergence. \end{itemize} \column{0.50\textwidth} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\scriptsize\sffamily] \node[draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=3pt,fill=PhantomCyan!12,minimum width=3.9cm,minimum height=0.85cm] (a) at (0,1.4) {page\_view}; \node[draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=3pt,fill=white,minimum width=3.9cm,minimum height=0.85cm] (b) at (0,0.25) {view\_item\_page}; \node[draw=PhantomInk,rounded corners=3pt,fill=PhantomIndigo!12,minimum width=3.9cm,minimum height=0.85cm] (c) at (0,-0.9) {add\_item\_to\_cart}; \draw[-{Stealth[length=2.2mm]},thick,PhantomSlate] (a) -- node[right,font=\tiny]{0.64} (b); \draw[-{Stealth[length=2.2mm]},thick,PhantomSlate] (b) -- node[right,font=\tiny]{0.31} (c); \draw[-{Stealth[length=2.2mm]},thick,PhantomSlate!70] (b.east) .. controls +(1.1,0.5) and +(1.1,-0.5) .. node[right,font=\tiny]{0.52} (b.east); \node[font=\tiny\itshape,text=PhantomSlate] at (0,-1.7) {Kernel rows encode ``what usually comes next.''}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{columns} \stagebar{3} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Human and agent kernels are separable in the controlled cohort} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.48\textwidth} \centering \textbf{Human transition structure}\par\vspace{0.2em} \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=0.46\textheight,keepaspectratio]{mdp_human.pdf} \column{0.48\textwidth} \centering \textbf{Agent transition structure}\par\vspace{0.2em} \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=0.46\textheight,keepaspectratio]{mdp_agent.pdf} \end{columns} \vspace{0.15em} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.32\textwidth}\centering\metriccard{-3.35}{mean gap (human)} \column{0.32\textwidth}\centering\metriccard{+1.65}{mean gap (agent)} \column{0.32\textwidth}\centering\metriccard{$p<0.001$}{Mann-Whitney rank test} \end{columns} \stagebar{3} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Two divergence scores become one continuous control signal} \centering \[ f(\tau') = P(A\mid\tau') = \sigma\!\left(\frac{\Delta_H-\Delta_A}{T}\right) \] \vspace{0.4em} \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\scriptsize\sffamily] \draw[very thick,PhantomSlate] (-4,0) -- (4,0); \draw[thick,PhantomSlate] (0,-0.16) -- (0,0.16); \node[anchor=north] at (-4,0) {human-like}; \node[anchor=north] at (4,0) {agent-like}; \node[anchor=north] at (0,0) {$\Delta_H-\Delta_A=0$}; \fill[PhantomCyan!75!black] (-2.2,0) circle (2.2pt); \fill[PhantomIndigo!75!black] (2.2,0) circle (2.2pt); \node[anchor=south,text=PhantomCyan!75!black] at (-2.2,0) {low $f(\tau')$}; \node[anchor=south,text=PhantomIndigo!75!black] at (2.2,0) {high $f(\tau')$}; \end{tikzpicture} \vspace{0.25em} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item Continuous scoring is used to steer contamination-aware pricing. \item The design target is guidance, not a hard user-level ban decision. \end{itemize} \stagebar{3} \end{frame} \section{Distributionally Robust RL} \begin{frame}{Stage 3: DR-RL trains against plausible contamination shifts, not one fixed world} \small \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.48\textwidth} \begin{block}{Ideal robust object} \[ \mathcal U_\epsilon(\hat P_N)=\{Q: W_p(Q,\hat P_N)\le\epsilon\} \] \centering robust against distribution shift around the empirical demand law \end{block} \column{0.50\textwidth} \begin{block}{Engine approximation used in experiments} \[ \mathcal A_{\epsilon_\alpha}(\alpha_0)=\{\alpha:|\alpha-\alpha_0|\le\epsilon_\alpha\} \] \centering small grid over $\alpha$ \;\textrightarrow\; inner worst-case candidate \end{block} \end{columns} \vspace{0.2em} \begin{alertblock}{Practical boundary} In code we solve a local robust loop around $\alpha_0$, not the full continuous Wasserstein adversary. \end{alertblock} \stagebar{4} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Reward composition penalizes leakage while guarding user experience} \[ r_t = {\color{PhantomInk}\underline{R(p_t,\hat Q_t)}} - {\color{PhantomCyan!95!black}\underline{\lambda\,f(\tau'_t)\,c_{\text{info}}}} - {\color{PhantomIndigo!95!black}\underline{\eta_{\text{ux}}\,UX(\tau'_t,p_t)}} \] \vspace{0.45em} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.32\textwidth} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\scriptsize\sffamily] \node[ draw=PhantomInk, rounded corners=4pt, fill=PhantomInk!12, minimum width=0.98\linewidth, text width=0.88\linewidth, minimum height=1.28cm, align=center, text=PhantomInk ] {\textbf{Revenue term}\\[-0.08em]keeps market objective explicit}; \end{tikzpicture} \column{0.32\textwidth} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\scriptsize\sffamily] \node[ draw=PhantomInk, rounded corners=4pt, fill=PhantomCyan!16, minimum width=0.98\linewidth, text width=0.88\linewidth, minimum height=1.28cm, align=center, text=PhantomCyan!95!black ] {\textbf{Leakage term}\\[-0.08em]scales with agent-likelihood score}; \end{tikzpicture} \column{0.32\textwidth} \centering \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\scriptsize\sffamily] \node[ draw=PhantomInk, rounded corners=4pt, fill=PhantomIndigo!16, minimum width=0.98\linewidth, text width=0.88\linewidth, minimum height=1.28cm, align=center, text=PhantomIndigo!95!black ] {\textbf{UX term}\\[-0.08em]discourages unstable pricing behavior}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{columns} \vspace{0.25em} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item Baseline experiments use a query-tax leakage surrogate for tractability. \item Supra-competitive anchor penalties are tracked as an additional safety rail. \end{itemize} \stagebar{4} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Computationally, wide sweeps are feasible only with aggressive optimization} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.47\textwidth} \centering {\Large\(4\times4\times3\times2\times2=\mathbf{192}\)}\\[0.25em] {\scriptsize algorithms $\times$ contamination $\times$ robustness $\times$ COI penalty $\times$ action grid} \vspace{0.5em} \metriccard{160 PFLOPS}{peak aggregate TPU budget}\\[0.45em] \metriccard{\textasciitilde180 days}{net compute logged in full study} \column{0.51\textwidth} \begin{block}{Hot-path rewrite impact} \centering \begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}} \toprule Mode & Before & After \\ \midrule Baseline step/s & 26.0 & 220.0 \\ Robust step/s & 7.2 & 136.0 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{block} \vspace{0.1em} {\footnotesize \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item pandas lookup bottlenecks replaced with array/JAX-style loops. \item Throughput gains (8.5$\times$, 19$\times$) made broad sweeps practical. \end{itemize}} \end{columns} \stagebar{4} \end{frame} \section{Results} \begin{frame}{Results: contamination hurts revenue; defended policies recover COI} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.62\textwidth} \centering \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=0.60\textheight,keepaspectratio]{final_focus_coi_by_alpha.pdf} \column{0.30\textwidth} \metriccard{-90{,}140}{baseline contamination slope}\\[0.3em] \metriccard{\textasciitilde3\%}{short-run revenue cost of defense}\\[0.3em] \metriccard{Regime-dependent}{COI gains strongest at harder settings} \end{columns} \stagebar{5} \end{frame} \section{Conclusions} \begin{frame}{Yes, with boundaries: we can defend margin integrity under agentic orchestration} \begin{columns}[T,onlytextwidth] \column{0.32\textwidth} \begin{block}{SQ1\;Distinguishability} \centering kernels are separable\\$p<0.001$ \end{block} \column{0.32\textwidth} \begin{block}{SQ2\;Theoretical impact} \centering COI erosion mechanism\\proved in baseline limit \end{block} \column{0.32\textwidth} \begin{block}{SQ3\;Mitigation} \centering robust control shifts\\COI/revenue/UX trade-off \end{block} \end{columns} \vspace{0.35em} \begin{alertblock}{Boundary conditions} Evidence is from a controlled platform and a small labeled cohort; this is mechanism validation, not full production external validity. \end{alertblock} \stagebar{6} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{What this implies for real pricing systems} \begin{itemize}[<+->]\setlength{\itemsep}{0.7em} \item \textbf{Financially:} untreated reconnaissance behaves like an information leak and can compress sustainable margins. \item \textbf{Operationally:} behavior-only session scoring can be wired into pricing without relying on device fingerprinting. \item \textbf{Strategically:} robust pricing should be calibrated by regime; there is no single penalty that wins everywhere. \item \textbf{Before deployment:} larger human baselines, governance review, and legal safeguards are mandatory. \end{itemize} \stagebar{6} \end{frame} \begin{frame}[plain] \centering \vfill {\LARGE\bfseries Thank you} \vspace{0.8em} {\large Questions and discussion} \vfill {\footnotesize\color{PhantomSlate!80}Appendix follows: COI theorem derivation, reward composition, and sample-size notes.} \vfill \end{frame} \appendix \input{defense_appendix} \end{document}