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YES

As of 13 August 2026, AI can suggest a price for your sales proposal.

Most people should hand this to a purpose-built tool.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsThe supplied tool data gives no price for a human pricing service or for the commercial software listed.

If this goes wrong: you submit a price that loses the deal or leaves too little margin to deliver the work.

What to actually do

  1. Use a tool built for this

    The route this page recommends

  2. Do it yourself

    Second choice

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your current price list, cost sheets and any approved discount or margin rules, and gather the proposal scope, deliverables, delivery timeframe and supplier costs.
    2. Paste the client brief and the gathered commercial information into the prompt, separating confirmed facts from assumptions and leaving unknown figures marked as unavailable.
    3. Ask the chatbot to calculate conservative, target and premium options, and to list every missing input that could materially change the recommendation.
    4. Compare the drafted calculations against your cost sheets and price list, checking units, quantities, VAT treatment, delivery time and any discount or margin rule.
    5. Ask the chatbot to recalculate after correcting the figures, then remove any claim about client budget, competitor pricing or market rates that you cannot support.
    6. Choose the price that fits your approved commercial policy, obtain any required internal approval, and paste the selected figure and scope into the sales proposal.

    Prompt

    Suggest a price for this UK sales proposal using only the information I provide. Do not invent costs, market rates, competitor prices, client budgets, taxes or margins. First list any missing inputs that could materially change the price. Then calculate the delivery cost, show the assumptions, and give three options labelled conservative, target and premium. For each option, show the total price in pounds, estimated margin if the necessary figures are available, what is included, the main commercial risk and when it would be appropriate. Keep the recommendation separate from the calculations. Do not present an estimate as a fact. Flag any assumption I must confirm before sending the proposal. Context: [describe the client and their stated needs]. Scope and deliverables: [paste the scope]. Internal labour and supplier costs: [paste costs or state that they are unavailable]. Expected delivery time: [paste timeframe]. Approved price list or margin rules: [paste rules]. Previous comparable work: [paste examples if available]. Client constraints or budget: [paste only what the client has actually stated].

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know what this client will actually pay unless the client has told you.
  • AI cannot reliably judge the value of an unusual outcome, a strategic account or a politically sensitive negotiation.
  • AI cannot replace your approval process or decide how much delivery risk your business should accept.
  • AI can make a neat recommendation from incomplete costs, so an unsupported assumption can look like a precise price.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, stakes of error and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT calculate a price for my sales proposal?
Yes. Give it your scope, costs, delivery assumptions and approved pricing rules, and it can calculate options and show the arithmetic. Check every input against your own records before using the figure.
Can AI tell me what my client will pay?
No. It can compare scenarios using information you provide, but it cannot know an undisclosed budget or the client’s willingness to pay. Treat any market or value assumption as unverified unless you have evidence for it.
Is it safe to use AI to price a proposal?
It is suitable for calculations and scenario planning, not for handing over the commercial decision. This is not professional advice. For a serious or high-value pricing decision, ask your finance lead, accountant or commercial adviser to check it.
What information does AI need to suggest a proposal price?
Provide the deliverables, quantities, labour and supplier costs, delivery timeframe, approved margins or discounts, VAT treatment and any client constraints they have actually stated. Mark unknown figures as unknown rather than asking the model to fill them in.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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