record-the-answer-and-close-the-ask

# Record the answer and close the ask ## What it does Records the number approved, the reason, the signer, the band and the quote version it was decided against, then tells the seller. The ask does not close until the quote is rebuilt on the approved number rather than the asked one. ## Where it happens The agent does this in two activities across one reference process. Each one names the activity as that process words it. - **Record the Decision** - `ref/rev/approve-a-discount`, activity 13 - [Approve a Discount](../../../../processes/revenue-operations/approve-a-discount.md) - **Tell the Seller and the Quote** - `ref/rev/approve-a-discount`, activity 14 - [Approve a Discount](../../../../processes/revenue-operations/approve-a-discount.md) ## What to record Per ask: the ask as the seller wrote it against a quote version, the band it matched on the table at the version in force, the signer and the delegate that band names, and the hour the clock started. Every line at its list price with the card version it was read from and the discount as a number. The margin at the asked price, with every line below the floor named. The evidence the seller supplied, what this customer, this segment and this product already got with the deals and dates it was given on, and what the discount does to the renewal price and to the next deal that cites it. Then the decision: the number approved, the reason in the signer's own words, the signer, the band, and the version of the quote it was decided against, with the quote rebuilt on the approved number rather than the asked one. Every escalation carries what the ask was waiting on when the clock ran out. That contract covers every activity this abstract agent takes on, and it is repeated in `com.agentcatalog.agent/RECORDS.md`. What the abstract agent does not do is in `com.agentcatalog.agent/NOT.md`.