Predictika · HCM suite quotes

An AI sales agent's HCM suite quote, checked before it goes out

An AI sales agent prepares a quote for an HCM suite: the modules (HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Benefits and add-ons), the country, headcount and hourly employees, time clocks, the support tier, the implementation type, the term, the discount and the annual total the quote states. 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 annual total it computed.

Scope: One HCM suite quote: modules and add-ons, country, headcount, time clocks, support tier, implementation, term, discount and the stated annual total. See everything this validator covers

This validator models the whole module family and its commercial terms, not just the scenarios shown below.

  • Modules and dependencies — HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent and Benefits, with the modules that need HR or Workforce Management as the base.
  • Add-ons — Wallet and on-demand pay, which need Payroll in supported countries, and Absence, Scheduling, Labor Planning and time clocks with their dependencies.
  • Service levels — the support tier and the implementation type, each with a headcount limit.
  • Commercial terms — minimum headcount, the term, discount levels that need approval or are not allowed, payroll outside the native countries, very large deployments, and the stated annual total compared with the modeled one.

Any HCM quote that touches these rules is in scope — not only the scenarios pictured here. Not covered: other Dayforce products and services. The module names come from public Dayforce pages; Dayforce does not publish its prices or compatibility rules, so every dependency, limit, support rule and price in this validator is modeled from comparable HCM suites and is not published by Dayforce.

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
Modules that depend on other modulesOnly with workarounds
Talent and Benefits need HR, Absence and Scheduling need Workforce Management, and Labor Planning needs Scheduling, a chain of dependencies between separate choices.		All dependencies are checked together on every call, in either direction.
Add-ons available by countryOnly with care
Wallet is available for two countries and on-demand pay for most, both only with Payroll, so one choice changes what another allows.		Country, Payroll and the add-ons are fields of one quote and are checked together.
Limits that depend on headcountOnly with care
Enterprise support, Accelerated implementation and the number of time clocks each depend on the number of employees.		Headcount is compared with every limit on every call.
Blocks and approvals at onceOnly with workarounds
A discount or a shorter term needs a person while a missing module stops the quote, and both should be seen together.		Blocks and approvals are reported together, so one problem never hides another.
A stated total that must match the computed oneOnly with workarounds
The annual total depends on every module, the support tier, headcount and the discount, so a separate rule must recompute it and compare it with the stated figure.		The stated total is a field of the quote and is compared with the computed one 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.

    
1Talent is quoted without Dayforce HR as the employee record.
2Benefits is quoted without Dayforce HR as the employee record.
3Dayforce Wallet requires Dayforce Payroll and is quoted only for US and Canada payrolls in this model.
4On-demand pay requires Dayforce Payroll in a supported country; the quote does not meet that.
5Payroll outside the US, Canada, UK and Australia is delivered through global payroll partners; a person should confirm country coverage.
6Absence Management is quoted without Dayforce Workforce Management.
7Labor Planning is quoted without Scheduling.
820 time clock(s) are quoted without Dayforce Workforce Management.
9121 time clocks is more than one per 10 employees (1,200 employees).
10Enterprise support is offered to organizations of 500 or more employees in this model; the quote has 400.
11Accelerated implementation is limited to 1,000 employees in this model; the quote has 1,200.
12The quote lists 1,300 hourly employees but only 1,200 employees in total.
13The quote covers 40 employees; this model sells to organizations of 50 or more.
14The term is 6 months; the minimum is 12.
15A term of 24 months is shorter than the standard 36; a person should confirm pricing.
16The discount is 31 percent; the maximum is 30.
17A discount of 25 percent needs sales leadership approval.
18The quote states an annual total of 300,000 dollars; the quoted modules and discount give a different total.
1930,000 employees is a very large deployment; a person should review the implementation plan.

  

  

    
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. UK mid-size employer quote: A 400-employee UK quote with Talent, Wallet, Labor Planning, Enterprise support and a 35 percent discount

    
The agent's request. Please quote Dayforce Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Wallet and Labor Planning for 400 employees in the UK (200 hourly), 10 time clocks, Enterprise support, Standard implementation, a 24-month term and a 35 percent discount. The quote states an annual total of $84,240. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • Talent needs HR. Talent is quoted without Dayforce HR as the employee record.
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  • Wallet needs Payroll in the US or Canada. Dayforce Wallet requires Dayforce Payroll and is quoted only for US and Canada payrolls in this model.
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  • Labor planning needs Scheduling. Labor Planning is quoted without Scheduling.
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  • Enterprise support needs 500 employees. Enterprise support is offered to organizations of 500 or more employees in this model; the quote has 400.
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  • Discount over the limit. The discount is 35 percent; the maximum is 30.
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  • Short term needs approval. A term of 24 months is shorter than the standard 36; a person should confirm pricing.
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2. UK mid-size employer quote: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote Dayforce HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Wallet, Scheduling and Labor Planning for 400 employees in the UK (200 hourly), 10 time clocks, Premium support, Standard implementation, a 24-month term and a 25 percent discount. The quote states an annual total of $118,800. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • Wallet needs Payroll in the US or Canada. Dayforce Wallet requires Dayforce Payroll and is quoted only for US and Canada payrolls in this model.
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  • Discount needs sales approval. A discount of 25 percent needs sales leadership approval.
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  • Short term needs approval. A term of 24 months is shorter than the standard 36; a person should confirm pricing.
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3. UK mid-size employer quote: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote Dayforce HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Wallet, Scheduling and Labor Planning for 400 employees in the US (200 hourly), 10 time clocks, Premium support, Standard implementation, a 24-month term and a 25 percent discount. The quote states an annual total of $118,800. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Needs approval.

    
    
      
  • Discount needs sales approval. A discount of 25 percent needs sales leadership approval.
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  • Short term needs approval. A term of 24 months is shorter than the standard 36; a person should confirm pricing.
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  • Price summary (modeled prices). 400 employees at 33 dollars per employee per month, 158,400 dollars a year before discount.
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4. UK mid-size employer quote: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote Dayforce HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Wallet, Scheduling and Labor Planning for 400 employees in the US (200 hourly), 10 time clocks, Premium support, Standard implementation, a 36-month term and a 10 percent discount. The quote states an annual total of $142,560. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Allowed.

    
    
      
  • Price summary (modeled prices). 400 employees at 33 dollars per employee per month, 158,400 dollars a year before discount.
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5. Large employer quote: A 1,500-employee quote with Accelerated implementation, 200 time clocks and on-demand pay in another country

    
The agent's request. Please quote Dayforce HR, Payroll, Workforce Management and on-demand pay for 1,500 employees in another country (800 hourly), 200 time clocks, Premium support, Accelerated implementation, a 36-month term and a 10 percent discount. The quote states an annual total of $388,800. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • On-demand pay needs Payroll. On-demand pay requires Dayforce Payroll in a supported country; the quote does not meet that.
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  • Too many time clocks for headcount. 200 time clocks is more than one per 10 employees (1,500 employees).
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  • Accelerated implementation size limit. Accelerated implementation is limited to 1,000 employees in this model; the quote has 1,500.
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  • Payroll outside native countries. Payroll outside the US, Canada, UK and Australia is delivered through global payroll partners; a person should confirm country coverage.
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6. Large employer quote: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote Dayforce HR, Payroll, Workforce Management and on-demand pay for 1,000 employees in Australia (800 hourly), 100 time clocks, Premium support, Accelerated implementation, a 36-month term and a 10 percent discount. The quote states an annual total of $259,200. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Allowed.

    
    
      
  • Price summary (modeled prices). 1,000 employees at 24 dollars per employee per month, 288,000 dollars a year before discount.
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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 an HCM suite: the modules (HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Benefits and add-ons), the country, headcount and hourly employees, 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 annual total 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 Dayforce Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Wallet and Labor Planning for 400 employees in the UK (200 hourly), 10 time clocks. The quote states an annual total of $84,240. 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 five findings and one approval, all in one answer. Talent is quoted without Dayforce HR as the employee record. Dayforce Wallet requires Dayforce Payroll and is quoted only for US and Canada payrolls in this model. Labor Planning is quoted without Scheduling. The other two are on screen.
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  6. The validator returned five blocking findings and one approval 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 limits that depend on headcount, a rules-based CPQ is error-prone for this.
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  8. Now the agent resubmits.
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  9. The corrected request. It changes the modules to HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, Talent, Wallet, Scheduling and Labor Planning, the support tier to premium, the discount to 25 percent and the annual total stated on the quote to $118,800.
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  10. It calls the validator again.
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  11. Still blocked, with one finding and two approvals, all in one answer. Dayforce Wallet requires Dayforce Payroll and is quoted only for US and Canada payrolls in this model.
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  12. Four findings cleared. Still blocking: Wallet needs Payroll in the US or Canada. One approval also remains for a person: short term needs approval. A new approval needs a person: discount needs sales approval.
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  13. The agent resubmits once more.
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  14. The revised request. It changes the country to the US.
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  15. It calls the validator once more.
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  16. Not blocked, but held for a person.
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  17. The one blocking finding is cleared; two approvals remain for a person: discount needs sales approval and short term needs approval.
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  18. The agent resubmits again.
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  19. The next revised request. It changes the term to 36 months, the discount to 10 percent and the annual total stated on the quote to $142,560.
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  20. It calls the validator yet again.
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  21. This time the validator clears it.
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  22. Both earlier findings are cleared.
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  23. Six problems caught in one call, fixed in three passes, and a clean $142,560 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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