What it is
A commitment is the promise a season is run to. It names a slice of the business (a category, a collection, a sales channel, a lifecycle, a family or a curated collection), a window (a boxed season with a start and an end, or a rolling one that stands until it is amended), and five numbers with a basis each: availability floor, sell-through pace, margin floor, buy envelope and chase reserve. A boxed window may add a sixth, the terminal stock ceiling. It is declared, then signed off, and from then on Tightly defends it: every Monday the verdicts engine measures what traded against what was declared and writes the verdict down.
Before a boxed window opens, the agreed book is scored against the commitment as well, because pre-season orders are the season's first truth.
How Tightly decides it
Tightly never invents a commitment. A planner declares one on Declare, which opens the buying budget and the buying reserve at Tightly's suggestions and leaves the floors and the pace for you to type. Every declared number carries its basis: own history, an analog cohort, a prior book, an aggregate, a house convention where nothing can be measured, today's position where no history was archived, or unanchored. Accepting a suggestion and typing over it are both recorded, with the difference.
A declaration lands Awaiting a second signature and owns no money until it is signed off. Who may sign is your own setting: with one admin, that admin may sign their own declaration; with more than one, a different admin must sign by default, and money bands can name a role that must sign above an amount. Every declare, amendment, approval, close and retirement is a new version on a record that is never edited; an amendment is a new version with a receipt, never a change to the old one. Two commitments may never own the same dollar in the same window. Closing or retiring frees the money the same instant; nothing is deleted and no stock moves.
The words on the face
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Awaiting a second signature | Declared, not yet signed; it owns no money and is scored by nothing |
| Signed off | Signed; the envelope is armed. Before the season it reads Signed off · book open or Signed off · book not started, from the agreed book |
| Proposing | The autonomy rung: the engines put figures forward and a person approves; never a status |
| Pre-season, In season, Closed | Where the season sits, read from the window each night |
| Continuity | A rolling commitment that has not closed, on the Declaration |
| Retired | Closed with no successor named |
| The five | The five declared numbers as one row set, each with a standing word |
The commitment is read on All commitments (the book), in its own room, on the desk where the buy is worked, and on Home and Today where a decision waits on you.
What you can do about it
Declare, in four steps, with a compile preview that writes nothing. Amend, which is a new version. Sign off, the second signature. Release the chase, spending the reserve against a named winner. Retire, closing a commitment, with or without naming the ones that take over. Close, once a boxed window has passed its end, which scores the season and records where what is left goes. Each act is a version with a receipt, and none of them deletes anything. Ask Tightly inside a commitment answers with that commitment in view.
Glossary line
A commitment is a season's promise: a scope, a window and five declared numbers with a basis each, signed off, owning its own money and scored every week against what traded.