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Auction Desk
Quality-adjusted second-price auctions for a closed ad marketplace
A working operator console for a publisher running their own ad inventory: define slots, accept bids from advertisers, run auctions with quality-weighted ranking and second-price clearing, and watch reserves and pacing keep the marketplace healthy.
Pipeline
Live system mapAuction clearing flow
Marketplace readiness
Advertisers
4
Slots
3
Bids
12
Runs
0
Operator decisions surfaced
Reserve prices
Per-slot floor below which auctions go unfilled. Health page recommends data-backed values.
Pacing
Each advertiser carries a daily budget and a smoothing factor that throttles per-auction bids.
Behavior modes
Advertisers can be truthful, shaded (×0.85), or auto-bid (capped by target CAC). Vickrey rewards truthful.
Workspace data operations
Reset workspace data
Clears auction workspace records, then reseeds representative auction baseline data.