Mobile CPQ demo

Five minutes well spent

Four things to try, whatever the product is today.

• Try something impossible. A combination the rules do not allow, or a number outside the range. The demo says no, says why, and shows what to change. A spreadsheet would have sold you something the factory cannot build.
• Change your mind early. Swap one of the first choices and watch later options appear and disappear. That chain of dependencies is the whole reason manufacturers buy CPQ.
• Watch the number. Every choice carries a price. The total follows as you go, and nobody at the factory has to work it out.
• Go all the way. The proposal is a live page with the configuration, the price and the specification, the kind of thing a salesperson sends from the customer's site. It is the only step that asks for an email, so it has somewhere to go.

What is behind it

One core and two ways in. The core is a constraint solver that holds the product rules: what fits what, what requires what, what excludes what. It decides what can be built, and the price comes from the same model.

On some days a language model sits in front of it. It understands what you ask for, asks back when it has to, and reasons about what a buyer of this product actually needs. The model may talk. The solver decides. A chatbot alone will happily describe a product that does not exist; with the solver underneath it behaves like your best salesperson on a good day.

On the other days the way in is a 3D view. Every choice redraws the product, so you see what you are buying while the rules keep it buildable. It is the same idea as a live drawing in every quote, running in your browser.

Why we built it

Manufacturers are putting their product knowledge online, often in a simplified version: what can be combined, what it costs, what a dealer or a customer can order without calling the factory. Dealers and customers have started to expect it. We built these demos to show what that feels like on a real product, with the real rules intact, rather than describe it.

We wrote about what it means for a sales team in Mobile CPQ and self-service, and about where the rules come from in our guide to the CPQ configurator.

Where it comes from

cpq.se is a Tacton reseller and implementation partner, and we work with sailsrep.ai as a reasoning layer on top of Tacton CPQ. That is how SWIFT Home Lifts runs it today, and how HMF Cranes is rolling it out to their dealers on top of the Tacton model we built with them.

We say this plainly because the page would be dishonest otherwise. If you are choosing a CPQ platform, start with our vendor comparison, where we are equally open about where we come from.

Want this for your product?

Twenty minutes is enough. Bring one product family and a rough count of its options, and we will tell you what it takes to get a demo like this running on your own catalogue. Pick a time, leave your name and email, and if you have a link to the product, add it so we can look before we talk.

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