Predictika · Smart parcel lockers

An AI sales agent's parcel locker quote, checked before it goes out

An AI sales agent assembles a Parcel Pending by Quadient standard indoor or outdoor locker system for a customer: control towers, locker towers, door sizes, awnings, RFID reader and video surveillance. Before the quote goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks it against a declarative model of the public Parcel Pending spec sheets and returns a verdict, every reason and the figures it computed.

Scope: Parcel Pending by Quadient standard indoor and outdoor locker systems: tower models, door counts by size, site conditions, awnings, RFID and video options. See everything this validator covers

This validator models the public Parcel Pending by Quadient spec sheets for the standard indoor system, the standard outdoor system and the video surveillance system, not just the scenarios shown below.

  • Towers and doors — the number of doors of each size (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, H-Small, H-Medium, Jumbo, Ultra, OS-3) that each tower model provides, checked against the doors the order needs, and against the total the quote states.
  • Control tower — the D13 and D6 are the towers with the touchscreen, scanner and keypad; a quote needs at least one.
  • Indoor or outdoor — the D2 tower with Jumbo doors and the awnings appear only on the outdoor spec sheet; operating temperature (indoor 41 to 95 F, outdoor -13 to 122 F) and indoor humidity (up to 80 percent) are checked against the site.
  • Awnings — standard or short awning, with short awnings for D-series towers only.
  • Options — the RFID reader for campus sites only, and video surveillance stored in the cloud on an Ethernet connection or on the camera SD card on a GSM connection.
  • Parcel weight — the maximum weight per door size (33 lb for Small, Medium, H-Small and H-Medium; 44 lb for Large and X-Large).

Any standard locker quote that touches these rules is in scope — not only the scenarios pictured here. Not covered: prices (Parcel Pending publishes none), custom or non-standard systems, colors and wraps, mounting and anchoring, power and network requirements beyond the connection type, and the weight limits for Jumbo, Ultra and OS-3 doors.

The AI sales agentAssembles the locker quote from the conversation and says it is ready.
Predictika validatorChecks every rule at once and returns the verdict, each finding, and the computed figures.

7 scenarios in 3 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
Door counts that come from the tower models, in nine door sizes, with different towers on the indoor and outdoor sheetsOnly with care
Each tower-by-size cell becomes a product rule or lookup row; the door totals per size are sums over the selected towers, and the indoor and outdoor sheets differ.		The tower quantities are added up per door size on every call and compared with the doors the order needs.
Site limits that depend on indoor or outdoor (temperature range, humidity, awnings, the D2 tower)Only with care
The limits differ by environment, so each is a conditional rule that must be written and kept in step with the spec sheets.		Each limit is checked against the environment chosen on the same quote.
Options that depend on the site: RFID on campus only, video storage by connection type, short awnings on D-series towers onlyOnly with workarounds
These are dependencies between an option and a site or tower choice; a rules-based CPQ often handles them with several selection rules or scripts that fire at different steps.		The options and the site are checked together, so each mismatch is reported in the same answer.
Every problem returned in one answerOnly with workarounds
Rules tend to fire as a step is completed, so a rep often fixes one error and meets the next.		All findings come back together, whatever order the choices arrived in.

  

  

    
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 D2 tower with Jumbo doors is listed only on the outdoor locker spec sheet; the quote is for an indoor system.
2The quote has no control tower; the D13 and D6 are the control towers with the touchscreen, scanner and keypad.
3The towers on the quote have 14 Small doors and the order needs 15.
4The towers on the quote have 8 Medium doors and the order needs 9.
5The towers on the quote have 4 Large doors and the order needs 5.
6The towers on the quote have 0 X-Large doors and the order needs 1.
7The towers on the quote have 17 H-Small doors and the order needs 18.
8The towers on the quote have 6 H-Medium doors and the order needs 7.
9The towers on the quote have 0 Jumbo doors and the order needs 1.
10The towers on the quote have 0 Ultra doors and the order needs 1.
11The towers on the quote have 0 OS-3 doors and the order needs 3.
12The quote states 24 doors but the towers on it add up to 26.
13Indoor lockers operate between 41 and 95 F; the site ranges from 35 to 80 F.
14Indoor lockers operate between 41 and 95 F; the site ranges from 60 to 100 F.
15Indoor lockers operate at up to 80 percent non-condensing humidity; the site has 85 percent.
16Outdoor lockers operate between -13 and 122 F; the site ranges from -20 to 90 F.

  

  

    
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. Options: An outdoor quote with a short awning on an S-series tower, cloud video on GSM and RFID at a retail site

    
The agent's request. Please quote a Parcel Pending outdoor locker system for a retail site, where the temperature ranges from 20 to 90 F and the humidity is 60 percent. The towers are 2 x D6, 1 x S6, 1 x D2 and the order needs 2 Small, 9 Medium, 2 Large, 4 X-Large, 2 Jumbo doors. The quote has a short awning, cloud video surveillance, a GSM connection and an RFID reader, and the heaviest parcels are 20 lb in the Small and Medium doors and 30 lb in the Large and X-Large doors. The quote states 20 doors. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • Short awning only on D-series towers. Short awnings are available only for D-series towers; the quote has 1 S-series, M23 or OS-3 towers.
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  • RFID reader is for campus only. The RFID reader option is for campus sites only.
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  • Cloud video needs Ethernet. Cloud video storage needs an Ethernet connection at the locker; the site connection is GSM.
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2. Options: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote a Parcel Pending outdoor locker system for a retail site, where the temperature ranges from 20 to 90 F and the humidity is 60 percent. The towers are 2 x D6, 1 x S6, 1 x D2 and the order needs 2 Small, 9 Medium, 2 Large, 4 X-Large, 2 Jumbo doors. The quote has a standard awning, cloud video surveillance, an Ethernet connection, and the heaviest parcels are 20 lb in the Small and Medium doors and 30 lb in the Large and X-Large doors. The quote states 20 doors. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Allowed.

    
    
      
  • Door summary. 20 doors on the towers; the order needs 19; the quote states 20.
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3. Indoor site: An indoor quote with a Jumbo tower, too few Small doors and a hot site

    
The agent's request. Please quote a Parcel Pending indoor locker system for a site, where the temperature ranges from 60 to 100 F and the humidity is 50 percent. The towers are 2 x D13, 1 x D2 and the order needs 16 Small, 8 Medium, 4 Large doors. The quote has no awning, no video surveillance, an Ethernet connection, and the heaviest parcels are 20 lb in the Small and Medium doors and 30 lb in the Large and X-Large doors. The quote states 28 doors. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • Jumbo tower D2 is outdoor only. The D2 tower with Jumbo doors is listed only on the outdoor locker spec sheet; the quote is for an indoor system.
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  • Not enough Small doors. The towers on the quote have 14 Small doors and the order needs 16.
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  • Site temperature outside the indoor range. Indoor lockers operate between 41 and 95 F; the site ranges from 60 to 100 F.
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4. Indoor site: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote a Parcel Pending indoor locker system for a site, where the temperature ranges from 60 to 90 F and the humidity is 50 percent. The towers are 2 x D13, 1 x D18 and the order needs 16 Small, 8 Medium, 4 Large doors. The quote has no awning, no video surveillance, an Ethernet connection, and the heaviest parcels are 20 lb in the Small and Medium doors and 30 lb in the Large and X-Large doors. The quote states 44 doors. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Allowed.

    
    
      
  • Door summary. 44 doors on the towers; the order needs 28; the quote states 44.
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5. Control tower and parcels: Indoor towers with no control tower, a humid site and heavy parcels

    
The agent's request. Please quote a Parcel Pending indoor locker system for a site, where the temperature ranges from 60 to 80 F and the humidity is 85 percent. The towers are 1 x D18, 1 x D12 and the order needs 12 Small, 14 Medium, 4 Large doors. The quote has no awning, no video surveillance, an Ethernet connection, and the heaviest parcels are 20 lb in the Small and Medium doors and 50 lb in the Large and X-Large doors. The quote states 30 doors. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • No control tower. The quote has no control tower; the D13 and D6 are the control towers with the touchscreen, scanner and keypad.
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  • Site humidity above the indoor limit. Indoor lockers operate at up to 80 percent non-condensing humidity; the site has 85 percent.
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  • Parcel too heavy for Large and X-Large doors. Large and X-Large doors hold up to 44 lb; the heaviest parcel for them is 50 lb.
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6. Control tower and parcels: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote a Parcel Pending indoor locker system for a site, where the temperature ranges from 60 to 80 F and the humidity is 70 percent. The towers are 1 x D6, 1 x D18, 1 x D12 and the order needs 12 Small, 14 Medium, 4 Large doors. The quote has no awning, no video surveillance, an Ethernet connection, and the heaviest parcels are 20 lb in the Small and Medium doors and 50 lb in the Large and X-Large doors. The quote states 36 doors. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Blocked.

    
    
      
  • Parcel too heavy for Large and X-Large doors. Large and X-Large doors hold up to 44 lb; the heaviest parcel for them is 50 lb.
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7. Control tower and parcels: The agent resubmits after fixing the errors

    
The agent's request. Please quote a Parcel Pending indoor locker system for a site, where the temperature ranges from 60 to 80 F and the humidity is 70 percent. The towers are 1 x D6, 1 x D18, 1 x D12 and the order needs 12 Small, 14 Medium, 4 Large doors. The quote has no awning, no video surveillance, an Ethernet connection, and the heaviest parcels are 20 lb in the Small and Medium doors and 40 lb in the Large and X-Large doors. The quote states 36 doors. It is ready to send.

    
Verdict: Allowed.

    
    
      
  • Door summary. 36 doors on the towers; the order needs 30; the quote states 36.
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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 assembles a Parcel Pending by Quadient standard indoor or outdoor locker system for a customer: control towers, locker towers, door sizes, and more. Before the quote goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks it against a declarative model of the public Parcel Pending spec sheets and returns a verdict, every reason and the figures 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 a Parcel Pending indoor locker system for a site, where the temperature ranges from 60 to 80 F and the humidity is 85 percent. The towers are 1 x D18, 1 x D12 and the order needs 12 Small, 14 Medium, 4 Large doors. The rest of the request is on screen. The quote states 30 doors.
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  4. Before it goes out, the agent calls the validator.
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  5. Blocked, with three findings, all in one answer. The quote has no control tower; the D13 and D6 are the control towers with the touchscreen, scanner and keypad. Indoor lockers operate at up to 80 percent non-condensing humidity; the site has 85 percent. Large and X-Large doors hold up to 44 lb; the heaviest parcel for them is 50 lb.
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  6. The validator returned three 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 site limits that depend on indoor or outdoor (temperature range, humidity, awnings, the D2 tower), 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 towers to 1 x D6, 1 x D18, 1 x D12, the site humidity to 70 percent and the stated door total to 36.
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  10. It calls the validator again.
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  11. Still blocked, with one finding, all in one answer. Large and X-Large doors hold up to 44 lb; the heaviest parcel for them is 50 lb.
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  12. Two findings cleared. Still blocking: parcel too heavy for Large and X-Large doors.
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  13. The agent resubmits once more.
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  14. The revised request. It changes the heaviest parcel, Large and X-Large to 40 lb.
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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. Three 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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