Predictika · Fare gate station orders

An AI sales agent's fare gate order quote, checked before it goes out

An AI sales agent prepares a quote for a station order of paddle-door fare gates: the number of stations and gates, the wide accessible gates, the panel material, the ticket readers, options such as the sensor array, fare-evasion detection, hands-free entry and remote management, the support tier and term, the spares, the delivery and the discount. Before it goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks it against a declarative model of how these choices fit together, and returns a verdict, every reason and the totals it computed.

Scope: One station order for paddle-door fare gates: gates, wide gates, panels, readers, options, support, spares, delivery and discount. See everything this validator covers

This validator models station orders for the fare gate and its options, not just the scenarios shown below.

  • Gates and stations — the number of stations, the gates needed for them and the wide accessible gate each station needs.
  • Panels and readers — laminated glass, polycarbonate or stainless-steel mesh panels, and EMV, magnetic stripe, barcode and mobile ticket readers, at least one of which is needed.
  • Options that depend on each other — the sensor array, fare-evasion detection, ultra-wideband hands-free entry, passenger displays, staff tablets, remote management, predictive maintenance and the outdoor weather kit.
  • Support, spares and discount — the support tier and term, the spares percentage, installation, and the discount limits with the approval above 5 percent.

Any fare gate station order that touches these rules is in scope — not only the scenarios pictured here. Not covered: other Cubic fare products. The product and option names come from public Cubic pages; every rule, limit and price in this validator is modeled from comparable fare gate programs and is not published by Cubic. The prices are illustrative.

The AI sales agentBuilds the quote from the conversation with the customer and says it is ready to send.
Predictika validatorChecks every rule at once and returns the verdict, each finding, and the computed figures.

6 scenarios in 2 groups · each group runs from the agent’s first attempt to the outcome · click one to switch

What the agent proposes

The AI sales agent says

Illustrative agent statement. The validator receives the structured request below.

Proposing agent: AI sales agent (scripted)

Before sending, the agent must call Recorded run

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Where rules-based CPQ gets it wrong
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Our assessment of what a typical rules-based CPQ (product rules, price rules and validation rules, as in Salesforce CPQ) does with the same cases. It is a judgment about effort and reliability, not a claim that nothing can be built.

    
What the validator caughtTypical rules-based CPQPredictika
Options that only work togetherOnly with workarounds
Fare-evasion detection needs the sensor array, hands-free entry needs mobile tickets, and predictive maintenance and Premium support need remote management, so each pair needs its own rule.		The options are fields of one order and every dependency is checked together on every call.
A fix that breaks another choiceOnly with care
Adding the sensor array to satisfy fare-evasion detection is not allowed behind stainless-steel mesh panels, so one fix can create a new problem.		Panel, sensor array and detection are checked together, so a resubmission shows exactly what is left.
Counts that depend on the stationsOnly with workarounds
Each station needs at least two gates and one wide accessible gate, and the wide gates cannot exceed the gates ordered, so the limits move with the number of stations.		The minimums are computed from the stations on every call.
Approvals that stack on top of blocksOnly with workarounds
A discount above 5 percent, hands-free entry, outdoor stations and a long support term need a person while other problems stop the order, and a person should see them all at once.		Blocks and approvals are all reported together, so one problem never hides another.
Totals that follow every optionOnly with care
The hardware, spares, installation and support totals change with each option, the discount and the support term.		The totals are computed in the model from the order on every call.

  

  

    
What this validator catches: findings from its test cases
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Every rule is checked on every call, in any order the choices arrive; one problem never hides another. Blocking findings stop the quote; approval findings need a person to sign off; everything else is computed.

    
1The order has no ticket reader; choose at least one of EMV, magnetic stripe, barcode or mobile.
2The order needs at least 1 station; it has 0.
3The order has 7 gates for 4 stations; each station needs at least 2 gates, so 8 are required.
4The order has 0 wide accessible gates; each of the 4 stations needs at least one.
56 wide accessible gates cannot exceed the 4 gates ordered.
6FLARE fare-evasion detection runs on the sensor array with integrated cameras; add the sensor array.
7Ultra-wideband hands-free entry needs mobile ticketing enabled.
8Ultra-wideband hands-free entry is a new capability and needs an engineering review for this site.
9Predictive maintenance needs remote monitoring and configuration.
10Premium support is delivered through remote monitoring; add remote management.
11Stainless-steel mesh panels obstruct the cameras of the sensor array; use glass or polycarbonate panels.
12Outdoor stations need the outdoor weather kit.
13Outdoor stations need a site environment review.
14The outdoor weather kit is ordered for an indoor station.
15Support runs 1 to 10 years; the order has 0.
16Support of 8 years is longer than 7 years and needs a pricing review.
17Spares are 2 to 10 percent of hardware; the order has 1 percent.
18250 gates is above 200 and needs a production slot review.
19A discount of 12 percent is above 5 percent and needs sales management approval.
20A discount of 20 percent is outside 0 to 15 percent.

  

  

    
Scenarios and results
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The recorded result of the validator for each scenario on this page: the request the AI agent sent, the verdict, and every finding, in the order they appear above.

    
1. Mesh-panel gate order: A fare gate order with FLARE on mesh panels, Premium support and too few gates

    
The agent's request. Please quote 7 gates for 4 stations, 2 of them wide accessible, with stainless-steel mesh panels, EMV and barcode readers, and fare-evasion detection and predictive maintenance. Support is Premium for 11 years, with 5 percent spares, supply and installation, and a 0 percent discount. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • Too few gates for the stations. The order has 7 gates for 4 stations; each station needs at least 2 gates, so 8 are required.
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  • Each station needs a wide accessible gate. The order has 2 wide accessible gates; each of the 4 stations needs at least one.
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  • FLARE needs the sensor array. FLARE fare-evasion detection runs on the sensor array with integrated cameras; add the sensor array.
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  • Predictive maintenance needs remote management. Predictive maintenance needs remote monitoring and configuration.
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  • Premium support needs remote management. Premium support is delivered through remote monitoring; add remote management.
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  • Support term out of range. Support runs 1 to 10 years; the order has 11.
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2. Mesh-panel gate order: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote 8 gates for 4 stations, 4 of them wide accessible, with stainless-steel mesh panels, EMV and barcode readers, and the sensor array, fare-evasion detection, remote management and predictive maintenance. Support is Premium for 7 years, with 5 percent spares, supply and installation, and a 0 percent discount. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • Stainless mesh blocks the sensor array. Stainless-steel mesh panels obstruct the cameras of the sensor array; use glass or polycarbonate panels.
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3. Mesh-panel gate order: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote 8 gates for 4 stations, 4 of them wide accessible, with polycarbonate panels, EMV and barcode readers, and the sensor array, fare-evasion detection, remote management and predictive maintenance. Support is Premium for 7 years, with 5 percent spares, supply and installation, and a 0 percent discount. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Allowed.

    
    
      
  • Order summary. 8 gates for 4 stations, hardware 507,200 USD after discount, contract total 1,054,976 USD (illustrative prices).
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4. Small station order: A small two-station order with readers missing, wide gates over the total and the discount too high

    
The agent's request. Please quote 4 gates for 2 stations, 6 of them wide accessible, with polycarbonate panels, no readers, and remote management and the outdoor weather kit. Support is Standard for 5 years, with 12 percent spares, supply and installation, and a 20 percent discount. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • No ticket reader selected. The order has no ticket reader; choose at least one of EMV, magnetic stripe, barcode or mobile.
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  • More wide gates than gates. 6 wide accessible gates cannot exceed the 4 gates ordered.
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  • Outdoor kit on an indoor station. The outdoor weather kit is ordered for an indoor station.
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  • Spares out of range. Spares are 2 to 10 percent of hardware; the order has 12 percent.
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  • Discount above limit. A discount of 20 percent is outside 0 to 15 percent.
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5. Small station order: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote 4 gates for 2 stations, 2 of them wide accessible, with polycarbonate panels, EMV and barcode readers, and remote management. Support is Standard for 5 years, with 5 percent spares, supply and installation, and a 12 percent discount. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Needs approval.

    
    
      
  • Discount above 5 percent. A discount of 12 percent is above 5 percent and needs sales management approval.
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  • Order summary. 4 gates for 2 stations, hardware 163,328 USD after discount, contract total 264,588 USD (illustrative prices).
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6. Small station order: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote 4 gates for 2 stations, 2 of them wide accessible, with polycarbonate panels, EMV and barcode readers, and remote management. Support is Standard for 5 years, with 5 percent spares, supply and installation, and a 5 percent discount. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Allowed.

    
    
      
  • Order summary. 4 gates for 2 stations, hardware 176,320 USD after discount, contract total 285,634 USD (illustrative prices).
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Narration transcript
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The text of the narrated walkthrough, step by step.

    
    
      
  1. Welcome to a demo of Predictika's Validator. An AI sales agent prepares a quote for a station order of paddle-door fare gates: the number of stations and gates, the wide accessible gates, the panel material, and more. Before it goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks it against a declarative model of how these choices fit together, and returns a verdict, every reason and the totals it computed.
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  2. I will start with the first request by the agent.
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  3. The agent says. Please quote 7 gates for 4 stations, 2 of them wide accessible, with stainless-steel mesh panels, EMV and barcode readers, and fare-evasion detection and predictive maintenance. Support is Premium for 11 years, with 5 percent spares, supply and installation, and a 0 percent discount. The rest of the request is on screen.
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  4. Before it goes out, the agent calls the validator.
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  5. Blocked, with six findings, all in one answer. The order has 7 gates for 4 stations; each station needs at least 2 gates, so 8 are required. The order has 2 wide accessible gates; each of the 4 stations needs at least one. FLARE fare-evasion detection runs on the sensor array with integrated cameras; add the sensor array. The other three are on screen.
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  6. The validator returned six blocking findings in one answer. A check that reads one field at a time would pass most of this; it shows only when the choices in the quote are checked against each other.
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  7. What this shows: for counts that depend on the stations, a rules-based CPQ can do this only with workarounds.
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  8. Now the agent resubmits.
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  9. The corrected request. It changes the gates to 8, the wide accessible gates to 4, the sensor array to yes, the remote management to yes and the support term to 7 years.
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  10. It calls the validator again.
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  11. Still blocked, with one finding, all in one answer. Stainless-steel mesh panels obstruct the cameras of the sensor array; use glass or polycarbonate panels.
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  12. Six findings cleared, but the change brings a different blocking finding: stainless mesh blocks the sensor array.
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  13. The agent resubmits once more.
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  14. The revised request. It changes the panels to polycarbonate.
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  15. It calls the validator once more.
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  16. This time the validator clears it.
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  17. The earlier finding is cleared.
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  18. Six problems caught in one call, fixed in two passes, and a clean quote. That is the value of Predictika's validator: catching mistakes before they reach the customer. Now you can try the other scenarios yourself.
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