Invisible Hand Technologies vs Zilliant CPQ

Invisible Hand Technologies is a web platform for consumer brands and CPG manufacturers that turns store-level retail data into pricing and promotion recommendations. It models demand by SKU, retailer, and local market, then simulates outcomes before recommending price changes. Promotion analysis separates incremental sales from subsidized volume to identify value-creating or margin-destroying activity. Root-cause analysis traces changes in sales, margin, or share to price, promotion, distribution, availability, or competition, down to individual stores. The platform monitors competitor pricing and promotion trends and shows out-of-stock conditions across retailers carrying a customer’s products. Its machine-learning engine combines store-by-store price, promotion, and availability data collected up to daily with internal, market, and third-party data. Recommendations appear in dashboards, alerts, and inspectable plain-language answers from an AI assistant. Users can question what is happening, why, and what to do next, and challenge the reasoning.

Zilliant CPQ is cloud-based quoting software for manufacturers and distributors managing complex products and pricing. It applies pricing strategy, margin targets and business rules during each quote, while configuration rules guide complex product choices to reduce errors and guesswork. Pricing logic, discounts and agreements are enforced in real time, and generated quotes reflect policy, margin targets and customer context. Workflow guardrails send only true exceptions for escalation. The product is available through web and API platforms and includes configuration rules, discount approvals, constraint modeling and scenario simulation. SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA integrations provide live pricing at header and line-item levels and can create SAP inquiries, quotes, sales orders, products, bills of material and production routings. Native connectors cover Salesforce CPQ, Oracle CPQ, SAP CPQ, Salesforce Commerce and SAP Commerce. SSO integrations use OAuth 2.0, SAML or OpenID Connect with several CRM platforms. SAP connections use secure encrypted links. Zilliant provides pricing on request.