Predictika · Lam Research Kiyo and Flex etch quotes

An AI sales agent's etch tool quote, checked before it goes out

An AI sales agent drafts a quote for a Lam Research etch tool: Kiyo (conductor) or Flex (dielectric) chambers on the 2300 or Sense.i platform, with chillers, a spares kit and a service plan. Before it goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks the chamber, platform, power, node, export and service rules, compares the total and throughput the quote states with the computed ones, and returns every finding together with the line-item quote. This is an illustrative model built from Lam Research's public product information with fictional configuration limits and prices; it is not Lam Research's internal rule set.

Scope: Lam Research Kiyo (conductor) and Flex (dielectric) etch tools on the 2300 and Sense.i transfer platforms, with chillers, spares kit and service. See everything this validator covers

This validator models one product line: Lam Research Kiyo (conductor) and Flex (dielectric) etch chambers configured on the Lam 2300 or Sense.i transfer platform, with process chillers, a spares kit and a service plan. It handles any quote involving these products, not only the scenarios shown on this page.

  • Covered: chamber and platform fit — Kiyo for conductor and Flex for dielectric applications, which chambers are offered on which platform, the chamber count against the platform maximum, and one chiller per chamber.
  • Covered: facility power and throughput — the power the tool needs (platform, chambers and chillers together) against the customer's facility, and tool throughput (chambers times wafers per hour) against the requirement.
  • Covered: node qualification and export control — nodes below 7 nm needing an advanced chamber, advanced chambers blocked at export-restricted destinations, and trade-compliance review for any restricted destination.
  • Covered: service, delivery and the quote — Premium service needing four or more chambers and the full spares kit, a service term of 1 to 5 years, lead time against the need-by date, the agent's discount authority, the line-item quote, and the total and throughput the agent states.
  • Not covered — Lam's deposition, clean and other non-etch tool families; chambers sold apart from these two platforms; chamber-level process recipes; and real Lam prices, lead times or published configuration limits. Other areas can be added.
  • Labeled as assumptions — prices, power per chamber, wafers per hour, lead times, the chamber counts each platform allows, which chambers are offered on which platform, the 7 nm qualification line, the 5 percent and 12 percent discount limits and the service and spares percentages are invented illustrative values, not Lam data.
The AI sales agentBuilds the etch tool 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 4 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

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
A chamber on a platform that does not offer it, or too many chambersOnly with care
A compatibility table per chamber and platform, kept by hand, and the maximum count is a separate validation rule on the quantity. A quote built from the wrong platform goes through.		Which chamber is offered on which platform, and the count limit, are part of the model; both are checked on every call.
Facility power summed across platform, chambers and chillersOnly with workarounds
Price rules do not sum attributes across selected parts; the power check is usually done in code or by an engineer after the quote is sent.		Power is computed from the platform, chambers and chillers and compared with the facility figure on the same call.
Node qualification and export control keyed to chamber attributesOnly with care
The rule has to be written per chamber SKU and per destination, so a new chamber needs new rules; any gap lets an advanced chamber ship to a restricted destination.		Advanced or not is an attribute of the chamber; the node and destination rules apply to every chamber, present or future.
Premium service prerequisites (four chambers and the full spares kit)Only with care
Dependency rules between the service tier, the chamber count and the spares choice, fragile when any of the three changes.		The prerequisites are checked together, and each failure comes back as its own finding.
A stated total or throughput that does not match the computed figureOnly with care
A validation rule can compare a stated figure with a calculated field, but only if the stated figure is a field on the quote, which it rarely is.		The stated total and throughput travel with the quote and are compared with the computed ones 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.

    
15 chambers need 5 chillers; the quote has 3.
2A 5 nm node needs an advanced chamber; Kiyo C series conductor etch is qualified for 7 nm and above.
3A discount of 14 percent is above the 12 percent limit that no agent can exceed.
4A discount of 8 percent is above the 5 percent an agent may give alone.
5A service term of 6 years is outside the 1 to 5 years offered.
6Advanced-node etch chambers cannot ship to an export-restricted destination.
7Flex E series dielectric etch does not match a Conductor etch application; conductor etch needs a Kiyo chamber and dielectric etch needs a Flex chamber.
8Flex H series high aspect ratio etch is not offered on the Lam 2300 transfer platform.
9Lead time of 38 weeks exceeds the 30 weeks available.
10Premium service requires a tool with at least 4 chambers.
11Premium service requires the full on-site spares kit.
12Stated throughput does not match: the agent stated 120 wafers per hour; the validator computes 108.
13Stated total does not match: the agent stated $18,220,680.00; the validator computes $18,215,680.00.
14The destination is export-restricted; trade-compliance license review is required.
15The quote has 5 chambers, outside the 1 to 4 the Lam 2300 transfer platform supports.
16The tool needs 458 kW but the facility provides 400 kW.
17Tool throughput of 108 wafers per hour is below the 120 required.