Predictika · EDA license bundle quotes
An AI sales agent prepares a license quote for a chip-design team: a tool bundle, a seat pool or pay-per-use credits (or both), delivery, term, any co-term with an existing agreement, an Ansys cross-portfolio add-on and a discount. Before it goes out, the agent sends it to Predictika, which checks it against a declarative model of the bundle and licensing rules and returns a verdict, every reason and the entitlement figures it computed.
This validator models license quotes for EDA tool bundles — not just the scenarios shown below.
Any bundle license quote touching these products or actions is in scope — not only the scenarios pictured here. Not covered: prices (none are published, so this validator produces no price build-up or line-item quote), contract terms beyond those listed, and any vendor CPQ platform. Assumptions: the bundle composition, seat maximums, minimum terms, delivery and add-on eligibility and discount limits are invented illustrative values.
6 scenarios in 3 groups · each group runs from the agent’s first attempt to the outcome · click one to switch
Illustrative agent statement. The validator receives the structured request below.
Proposing agent: AI sales agent (scripted)
Before sending, the agent must call Recorded run
What this means
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 caught | Typical rules-based CPQ | Predictika |
|---|---|---|
| A term that must end in the same month as an existing agreement (co-term) | Only with workarounds The existing end date has to be a field on the quote and the contract end computed from the start and the term; otherwise the check lives outside the quote. | The existing agreement date travels with the quote and is compared with the computed contract end on every call. |
| Which bundles can be bought as pay-per-use, a seat pool or a hybrid, and where each is offered as managed SaaS | Only with care Each bundle-and-model pair is its own product rule. It works, but every new bundle adds rules that someone must keep in step. | Eligibility comes from the bundle record, so a new bundle is a new row, not a new rule. |
| A quote that states a tool count different from the bundle | Only with care A validation rule can compare a stated figure with the bundle, but only if the stated figure is a field on the quote, which it rarely is. | The stated tool count travels with the quote and is compared with the bundle on every call. |
| Cross-portfolio review plus discount approval in one pass | Only with care Approval rules are easy one at a time. Several reasons at once usually mean several approval rules firing separately, each with its own message. | Every approval reason is listed together with the block reasons, in order of severity. |
| Every problem returned in one answer | Only with workarounds Rules tend to fire as the quote is saved or 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. |
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.
| 1 | Emulation (ZeBu Cloud) cannot be bought with pay-per-use credits; it is offered as a term-based seat license only. |
| 2 | the Ansys cross-portfolio add-on cannot be attached to Verification (VCS + Verdi). |
| 3 | Emulation (ZeBu Cloud) is not offered as a managed SaaS environment; it is bring-your-own-compute only. |
| 4 | 0 seats is outside the 1 to 100 seats one quote can carry for this bundle. |
| 5 | a pay-per-use or hybrid quote needs a credit purchase of at least 1 thousand credits; the quote has 0 thousand. |
| 6 | a term of 11 months is below the 12 month minimum for a term-based seat license of this bundle. |
| 7 | a term of 61 months is longer than the 60 month maximum. |
| 8 | the quote is meant to co-term with an agreement ending 3/2028, but a term of 36 months from 11/2026 does not end in that month. |
| 9 | the quote states 4 tools in the bundle, but this bundle includes 3. |
| 10 | a discount of 30 percent is above the 25 percent limit that anyone can approve. |
| 11 | a discount of 20 percent is above the 10 percent a sales rep can give; it needs sales management approval. |
| 12 | attaching Ansys cross-portfolio tools to a Synopsys bundle needs a deal desk review of the combined entitlement. |
| 13 | 20 seats leaves under 10 percent headroom below the 20 seat maximum for this bundle; confirm the pool size with the customer. |
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.
The agent's request. Please quote the Emulation (ZeBu Cloud) bundle as pay-per-use credits (500 thousand credits), a 24 month term starting November 2026, delivered as a managed SaaS environment. The quote states 2 tools in the bundle. It is ready to send.
Verdict: Blocked.
The agent's request. Please quote the Emulation (ZeBu Cloud) bundle as a term-based seat license (6 seats), a 24 month term starting November 2026, using bring-your-own-compute delivery. The quote states 1 tool in the bundle. It is ready to send.
Verdict: Allowed.
The agent's request. Please quote the Digital Implementation and Signoff bundle as a term-based seat license (120 seats), a 36 month term starting November 2026, delivered as a managed SaaS environment, co-terming with our existing agreement that ends March 2028, with a 10 percent discount. The quote states 4 tools in the bundle. It is ready to send.
Verdict: Blocked.
The agent's request. Please quote the Digital Implementation and Signoff bundle as a term-based seat license (120 seats), a 17 month term starting November 2026, delivered as a managed SaaS environment, co-terming with our existing agreement that ends March 2028, with a 10 percent discount. The quote states 3 tools in the bundle. It is ready to send.
Verdict: Allowed.
The agent's request. Please quote the Multiphysics Signoff (Ansys RedHawk-SC, Totem, HFSS) bundle as a hybrid of seats and pay-per-use credits (30 seats and 200 thousand credits), a 12 month term starting November 2026, delivered as a managed SaaS environment, with a 30 percent discount. The quote states 3 tools in the bundle. It is ready to send.
Verdict: Blocked.
The agent's request. Please quote the Multiphysics Signoff (Ansys RedHawk-SC, Totem, HFSS) bundle as a term-based seat license (30 seats), a 24 month term starting November 2026, using bring-your-own-compute delivery, with a 20 percent discount. The quote states 3 tools in the bundle. It is ready to send.
Verdict: Needs approval.
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