An AI sales agent's group meeting 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. Contract form and group terms: An Express Meeting Agreement for a 60-room group with a 25 percent attrition allowance

The agent's request. Please quote a Express Meeting Agreement group at Hilton Hotels and Resorts: 60 rooms at peak for 3 nights with 2 complimentary rooms, 80 attendees, food and beverage of $70 per person per day, a meeting room rental of $5,000 and a group rate of $200, with a 25 percent attrition allowance, a cutoff 30 days before arrival and 5 days of free cancellation. The quote states 180 room nights, an event budget of $57,800 and 115,600 planner points. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Blocked.

• Express Meeting Agreement budget over the limit. The Express Meeting Agreement covers events with budgets up to 50,000 dollars; this event budget is 57,800 dollars. Use the standard group contract.
• Express Meeting Agreement block too large. The Express Meeting Agreement is modeled for blocks of up to 50 rooms at peak; the quote has 60.
• Express Meeting Agreement cancellation notice. The Express Meeting Agreement allows cancellation without penalty up to 8 days before arrival; the quote offers 5 days.
• Attrition allowance too high. An attrition allowance of 25 percent is over the 20 percent maximum used in this model.

2. Contract form and group terms: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

The agent's request. Please quote a standard group at Hilton Hotels and Resorts: 60 rooms at peak for 3 nights with 2 complimentary rooms, 80 attendees, food and beverage of $70 per person per day, a meeting room rental of $5,000 and a group rate of $200, with a 10 percent attrition allowance, a cutoff 30 days before arrival and 30 days of free cancellation. The quote states 180 room nights, an event budget of $57,800 and 115,600 planner points. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Allowed.

• Block summary. 60 rooms at peak for 3 nights, 180 room nights, 57,800 dollars event budget, 115,600 planner points, 80 attendees.

3. Brand limits: A Hampton conference of 200 with 8 rooms and complimentary rooms

The agent's request. Please quote a standard group at Hampton: 8 rooms at peak for 3 nights with 6 complimentary rooms, 200 attendees, food and beverage of $30 per person per day, a meeting room rental of $5,000 and a group rate of $120, with a 10 percent attrition allowance, a cutoff 30 days before arrival and 30 days of free cancellation. The quote states 24 room nights, an event budget of $25,880 and 51,760 planner points. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Blocked.

• Limited-service group minimum. A group at Hampton, Hilton Garden Inn or Homewood Suites needs at least 10 rooms on the peak night in this model; the quote has 8.
• Attendees exceed the property. 200 attendees exceed the 150 this brand of property is modeled to host.
• Complimentary rooms over ratio. 6 complimentary rooms is more than 1 per 40 room nights; the group has 24 room nights.

4. Brand limits: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

The agent's request. Please quote a standard group at Embassy Suites: 60 rooms at peak for 3 nights with 4 complimentary rooms, 200 attendees, food and beverage of $55 per person per day, a meeting room rental of $5,000 and a group rate of $170, with a 10 percent attrition allowance, a cutoff 30 days before arrival and 30 days of free cancellation. The quote states 180 room nights, an event budget of $68,600 and 137,200 planner points. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Allowed.

• Block summary. 60 rooms at peak for 3 nights, 180 room nights, 68,600 dollars event budget, 137,200 planner points, 200 attendees.

5. Credit, points, cutoff and stated points: A group with a master-bill credit, bonus points, a short cutoff and a planner points total

The agent's request. Please quote a standard group at Hilton Hotels and Resorts: 40 rooms at peak for 3 nights with 2 complimentary rooms, 80 attendees, food and beverage of $70 per person per day, a meeting room rental of $5,000 and a group rate of $200, with a 10 percent attrition allowance, a cutoff 10 days before arrival and 30 days of free cancellation, a 8 percent master-bill credit, 130,000 Hilton Honors bonus points. The quote states 120 room nights, an event budget of $45,800 and 90,000 planner points. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Blocked.

• Cutoff date too close. The room block cutoff is 10 days before arrival; at least 14 days are needed.
• Master-bill credit too high. A master-bill credit of 8 percent is over the 5 percent maximum used in this model.
• Bonus points over the cap. 130,000 Hilton Honors bonus points is over the 100,000 cap used in this model.
• Stated planner points do not match. The quote states 90,000 planner points; two points per dollar of the event budget give 91,600.

6. Credit, points, cutoff and stated points: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

The agent's request. Please quote a standard group at Hilton Hotels and Resorts: 40 rooms at peak for 3 nights with 2 complimentary rooms, 80 attendees, food and beverage of $70 per person per day, a meeting room rental of $5,000 and a group rate of $200, with a 10 percent attrition allowance, a cutoff 21 days before arrival and 30 days of free cancellation, a 3 percent master-bill credit, 50,000 Hilton Honors bonus points. The quote states 120 room nights, an event budget of $45,800 and 91,600 planner points. It is ready to send.

Verdict: Allowed.

• Block summary. 40 rooms at peak for 3 nights, 120 room nights, 45,800 dollars event budget, 91,600 planner points, 80 attendees.

The text of the narrated walkthrough, step by step.

1. Welcome to a demo of Predictika's Validator. An AI sales agent prepares a group room block and meeting quote for a Hilton brand hotel, on either the standard group contract or the Express Meeting Agreement. Before it goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks it against a declarative model of the contract forms and group terms and returns a verdict, every reason and the room nights, event budget and planner points it computed.
2. I will start with the first request by the agent.
3. The agent says. Please quote a Express Meeting Agreement group at Hilton Hotels and Resorts: 60 rooms at peak for 3 nights. The quote states 180 room nights, an event budget of $57,800 and 115,600 planner points. The rest of the request is on screen.
4. Before it goes out, the agent calls the validator.
5. Blocked, with four findings, all in one answer. The Express Meeting Agreement covers events with budgets up to 50,000 dollars; this event budget is 57,800 dollars. Use the standard group contract. The Express Meeting Agreement is modeled for blocks of up to 50 rooms at peak; the quote has 60. The Express Meeting Agreement allows cancellation without penalty up to 8 days before arrival; the quote offers 5 days. The other one is on screen.
6. The validator returned four 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 contract forms with their own limits, a rules-based CPQ is error-prone for this.
8. Now the agent resubmits.
9. The corrected request. It changes the contract to standard group contract, the attrition allowance to 10 percent and the free cancellation to 30 days before arrival.
10. It calls the validator again.
11. This time the validator clears it.
12. All four earlier findings are cleared.
13. Four 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.