From the client's real estate to a costed proposal
The pre-sales tool for integrators, IT service providers, hosters and managed service operators: from an RVTools import or agent collection, model the entire engagement — integration, man-days, licenses, hardware, shared hosting — and generate the target architecture, the costing and deliverables under your brand.
- RVTools import · 5 minutes
- Provider catalogs pre-integrated
- Deliverables under your brand
The whole engagement, modeled in one tool
From the client's real estate, every building block of your offer is sized and costed: the infrastructure and the services around it.
Proven technical blueprints
Capitalize on your reference architectures: blueprints validated by your architects, reused deal after deal so sizing never starts from scratch.
Structured offer catalog
Your compute, storage, license and service SKUs, with per-provider prices, discounts and currencies. The shared basis of every quote.
Automatic estate sizing
RVTools import or agent collection: three sizing scenarios generated instantly, oversized VMs flagged along the way.
Auto-generated target architecture
The architecture diagram — nodes, switches, storage arrays — is generated and sized automatically, ready to drop into the proposal.
Technical and financial costing
Hardware, licenses, integration man-days, hosting: a complete OPEX / CAPEX quote, with 3-year TCO and line-level discounts.
Scenarios side by side
Renewal, migration, cloud or shared hosting: cost several options side by side and guide the client to the right one.
White-label deliverables
PDF, PowerPoint and Excel generated under your guidelines — logo, colors, master slides. It is your proposal that reaches the client.
Optimization and carbon
Occupancy rates, consolidation and carbon footprint per scenario: differentiating arguments in the response.
Costing in 7 steps
From data source to financial proposal: a guided wizard built for pre-sales teams
Source
Select the deal, import the client's RVTools file or enter the requirements manually.
Catalog
Choose the provider and the domains to cost: infrastructure, network, licenses.
Sizing
Automatic sizing across three scenarios, oversized VMs flagged.
Storage
HCI (RAID 5/6), Ceph (3-way, EC) or SAN array profiles, with usable-capacity ratios.
Design
Adjust components, quantities and discounts; add licenses and options.
Services
Add integration man-days and configure the deliverables' branding.
Financials
Quote review, internal validation and PDF, PPTX, XLSX export generation.
Source
Select the deal, import the client's RVTools file or enter the requirements manually.
Catalog
Choose the provider and the domains to cost: infrastructure, network, licenses.
Sizing
Automatic sizing across three scenarios, oversized VMs flagged.
Storage
HCI (RAID 5/6), Ceph (3-way, EC) or SAN array profiles, with usable-capacity ratios.
Design
Adjust components, quantities and discounts; add licenses and options.
Services
Add integration man-days and configure the deliverables' branding.
Financials
Quote review, internal validation and PDF, PPTX, XLSX export generation.
A complete proposal — sizing, costing, deliverables — in under 30 minutes
The target architecture, generated automatically
Sizing from the real estate, three consolidation ratios, HCI / SAN / Ceph profiles — and the diagram ready for the proposal
Comfort
Comfortable margins for critical production environments. vCPU:pCPU ratio of 3:1.
Balanced
Optimal balance between performance and cost. vCPU:pCPU ratio of 4:1, recommended by default.
Dense
Maximum density for dev/test environments. vCPU:pCPU ratio of 5:1.
HCI / SAN profiles
- RAID 1 (mirroring) — 50% usable
- RAID 5 (default) — 75% usable
- RAID 6 (FTT=2) — 66% usable
Ceph profiles
- 3-way replication — 33% usable
- Erasure Coding 4+2 — 66% usable
- Erasure Coding 8+3 — 72% usable
Advanced options
- N+1 redundancy for failover
- Oversized VM detection
- Configurable capacity buffer
- Multi-provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, private catalogs)
A quoting engine built for pre-sales
Per-provider SKU catalog, discounts, currencies, TCO projections: the technical and financial costing of the whole engagement
Line-level discounts
Apply percentage discounts on each component, with a configurable duration.
Multi-currency
Quote in EUR, USD or GBP; provider rates are converted automatically.
Reserved & On-Demand
Compare On-Demand, 1-year Reserved and 3-year Reserved rates for each SKU.
Proportionality rules
Licenses calculated per VM, per node, per physical core or per allocated TB.
SKU dependencies
Product dependencies are managed automatically (e.g. vSAN requires vSphere).
TCO projections
Monthly, annual and 3-year TCO, with breakdown by component and by type.
White-label commercial deliverables
PDF, PowerPoint and Excel generated under your brand — ready to reach the client
PDF proposal
The reference document: executive summary, architecture, detailed costing and carbon footprint.
- Custom logo and brand guidelines
- AI summary (technical, executive, flash)
- Component and cost details
- Carbon metrics
- Terms and conditions
PowerPoint deck
Presentation-ready slides, built on your brand guidelines and master slides.
- PPTX template with your master slides
- Summary, architecture and financial slides
- Integrated charts
- Timeline and next steps
- AI narrative per slide
Excel costing
The line-by-line detail for the buyer: summary, components, sizing, financials.
- Global summary tab
- Detail by component and quantity
- Sizing: SKU, vCPU, RAM, occupancy
- Financial breakdown and TCO
- Editable formulas
AI narratives for every audience
The proposal's argument, written automatically — technical for the IT team, executive for leadership, commercial for the pitch
For each quote, AI writes a prospect profile, a technical narrative, an executive summary, a sales argument and a compliance analysis (ISO, HDS, SecNumCloud) — embedded in the deliverables, under your brand.
Prospect enrichment
AI analyzes the prospect's website and writes a 500-word commercial profile to prepare the deal.
Technical narrative
Detailed 600-1000 word analysis: context, proposed architecture, strengths of the response.
Executive summary
Business summary of 300-500 words: ROI, financials, strategic benefits.
Sales argument
A 400-600 word pitch: pain points, differentiation, added value of the engagement.
Compliance analysis
Report of 500-800 words: security, regulatory, certifications (ISO, HDS, SecNumCloud).
The time your pre-sales team gets back
Compare the manual process (Excel + PowerPoint) with the automated workflow
Save up to
days / month
based on 10 monthly quotes
| Task | Manual | Automated | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Client estate analysis | 3-5 days | 2 hours | -90% |
| Sizing | 2-3 days | 15 minutes | -95% |
| Costing | 1-2 days | Instant | -98% |
| Deliverable generation | 2-3 days | 30 minutes | -92% |
| Scenario comparison | 1-2 days | 10 minutes | -96% |
| Carbon report | 1 day | Automatic | -100% |
The journey of a deal with Solution Architect
From the client's real estate to the delivered proposal
Collect the client's estate
RVTools, LiveOptics or agent collection. The real estate — VMs, hosts, storage, OS — becomes the working basis of the deal.
Qualify the requirements
Client constraints (SLAs, compliance, sovereignty, budget), AI prospect enrichment, scope of the engagement.
Model the engagement
Proven blueprints and offer catalog: sized target architecture, integration, man-days, licenses, hardware, shared hosting.
Compare the scenarios
Renewal, migration, cloud, shared hosting: the costed options side by side — cost, risk, carbon — to guide the client's choice.
Deliver the proposal
White-label PDF, PPTX and XLSX deliverables, AI narratives, internal validation workflow — the proposal goes out to the client.
Carbon footprint, an argument in the response
Each scenario also costs its environmental impact — a differentiator in tenders
Each scenario automatically includes its footprint: power consumption per server, annual CO2 impact and tangible equivalents (trees, cars). Everything you need to document the CSR section of your response.
Frequently asked questions
No. Provider catalogs (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle) are pre-integrated, and your private catalog — SKUs, negotiated prices, discounts — is imported and maintained in the platform. A first quote can be produced from a simple RVTools upload.
Ready to speed up your next proposal?
Cost a first deal for free from an RVTools import. Provider catalogs pre-integrated, deliverables under your brand from the very first export.