An AI sales agent's ropeway concept quote, checked before it goes out

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.

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. Speed, capacity, stations and options: A D-Line gondola with 10-passenger cabins, 65 decimeters per second and seat heating

The agent's request. Please quote a D-Line gondola with 10-passenger cabins: 2,400 meters long with a 600 meter rise, 4 intermediate stations, a design speed of 6.5 meters per second, a departure every 7 seconds, 60 vehicles and a target of 3,000 passengers per hour, with seat heating. It has 600 passenger places in total and a net price of 18,600,000 dollars. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Blocked.

• Rope speed above the model limit. The design speed of 65 decimeters per second is above the 60 this model is quoted for.
• Hourly capacity above the model limit. With this departure interval of 7 seconds the line would carry more than the 4,500 passengers per hour this model is quoted for.
• Too many intermediate stations. 4 intermediate stations are quoted; this model is quoted with up to 3.
• Too few vehicles for the line. 60 vehicles cannot fill the line at this speed and departure interval.
• Seat heating only on chairlifts. Seat heating is quoted only for chairlift models.
• Stated net price does not match. The quote states a net price of 1,860,000,000 cents; the illustrative prices give 1,880,000,000 cents.

2. Speed, capacity, stations and options: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

The agent's request. Please quote a D-Line gondola with 10-passenger cabins: 2,400 meters long with a 600 meter rise, 0 intermediate stations, a design speed of 6 meters per second, a departure every 8 seconds, 100 vehicles and a target of 3,000 passengers per hour. It has 1,000 passenger places in total and a net price of 13,840,000 dollars. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Allowed.

• Order summary. 100 vehicles, 1,000 passenger places, list price 13,840,000 dollars, net price 1,384,000,000 cents.

3. Cabin, options and discount: A D-Line gondola with 8-passenger cabins with doors, a carpet and a 30 percent discount

The agent's request. Please quote a D-Line gondola with 8-passenger cabins: 2,400 meters long with a 600 meter rise, 0 intermediate stations, a design speed of 6 meters per second, a departure every 8 seconds, 100 vehicles and a target of 4,500 passengers per hour, with a loading carpet, sliding doors, and a 30 percent discount. It has 700 passenger places in total and a net price of 9,730,000 dollars. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Blocked.

• Cannot reach the target passengers per hour. At a departure interval of 8 seconds the line cannot reach 4,500 passengers per hour.
• Loading carpet only on chairlifts. A loading carpet is quoted only for chairlift models.
• Sliding doors only on TRI-Line. Electronic sliding cabin doors are quoted only for TRI-Line.
• Discount outside 0 to 25 percent. The discount of 30 percent is outside the 0 to 25 percent range.
• Stated seat count does not match. The quote states 700 passenger places in total; the vehicles give 800.
• Over 4,000 passengers per hour. A target of 4,500 passengers per hour needs a station capacity review before the quote is released.

4. Cabin, options and discount: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

The agent's request. Please quote a TRI-Line: 2,000 meters long with a 700 meter rise, 0 intermediate stations, a design speed of 7.5 meters per second, a departure every 9 seconds, 60 vehicles and a target of 4,000 passengers per hour, with sliding doors, and a 10 percent discount. It has 1,200 passenger places in total and a net price of 26,028,000 dollars. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Allowed.

• Order summary. 60 vehicles, 1,200 passenger places, list price 28,920,000 dollars, net price 2,602,800,000 cents.

5. Line geometry and bike carriers: A 4,800 meter D-Line chairlift with bike carriers

The agent's request. Please quote a D-Line 6-place chairlift: 4,800 meters long with a 1,300 meter rise, 0 intermediate stations, a design speed of 5 meters per second, a departure every 6 seconds, 160 vehicles and a target of 3,000 passengers per hour, with bike carriers, and a 15 percent discount. It has 960 passenger places in total and a net price of 8,092,000 dollars. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Blocked.

• Line longer than the model limit. The horizontal length of 4,800 meters is above the 4,500 meters this model is quoted for.
• Vertical rise above the model limit. The vertical rise of 1,300 meters is above the 1,200 meters this model is quoted for.
• Too few vehicles for the line. 160 vehicles cannot fill the line at this speed and departure interval.
• Bike carriers only on D-Line gondolas. Bike carriers are quoted only for the D-Line gondola models.
• Discount above 10 percent. A discount of 15 percent is above the 10 percent a sales engineer can give; a regional director should approve it.

6. Line geometry and bike carriers: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

The agent's request. Please quote a D-Line gondola with 10-passenger cabins: 4,800 meters long with a 1,300 meter rise, 0 intermediate stations, a design speed of 6 meters per second, a departure every 8 seconds, 200 vehicles and a target of 3,000 passengers per hour, with bike carriers, and a 8 percent discount. It has 2,000 passenger places in total and a net price of 21,141,600 dollars. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Allowed.

• Order summary. 200 vehicles, 2,000 passenger places, list price 22,980,000 dollars, net price 2,114,160,000 cents.

The text of the narrated walkthrough, step by step.

1. Welcome to a demo of Predictika's Validator. An AI sales agent prepares a concept quote for a ropeway: a D-Line chairlift or gondola, a 3S gondola or a TRI-Line. Before it goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks it against a declarative model of the product lines and returns a verdict, every reason and the figures it computed.
2. I will start with the first request by the agent.
3. The agent says. Please quote a D-Line gondola with 10-passenger cabins: 2,400 meters long with a 600 meter rise, 4 intermediate stations, a design speed of 6.5 meters per second. It has 600 passenger places in total and a net price of 18,600,000 dollars. The rest of the request is on screen.
4. Before it goes out, the agent calls the validator.
5. Blocked, with six findings, all in one answer. The design speed of 65 decimeters per second is above the 60 this model is quoted for. With this departure interval of 7 seconds the line would carry more than the 4,500 passengers per hour this model is quoted for. 4 intermediate stations are quoted; this model is quoted with up to 3. The other three are on screen.
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.
7. What this shows: for stated seats and net price that must match the computed ones, a rules-based CPQ can do this only with workarounds.
8. Now the agent resubmits.
9. The corrected request. It changes the intermediate stations to 0, the design speed to 6, the departure interval to 8 s, the vehicles to 100, the seat heating to no, the stated passenger places to 1,000 and the stated net price to 13,840,000 dollars.
10. It calls the validator again.
11. This time the validator clears it.
12. All six earlier findings are cleared.
13. Six problems caught in one call, fixed in one pass, 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.