BLUEPRINT CODE AICONFIGURATORS
DISCIPLINE
Interactive commerce tools
TOOL TYPES
Six, combinable
WORKED EXAMPLE
PP-AV — five connected tools, live
ISSUE
2026

Product logic wearing an interface.

A configurator is not a 3D viewer with a price underneath. It's your product rules, your margin and your expertise, encoded once and then given away to every customer at the same quality — including the ones who arrive at eleven at night when nobody's answering the phone.

Tool register
RefTool typeWhat it decidesLive example
TT-01Guided selectorWhich product, from a long catalogueProjector Selector
TT-02Specification builderWhat a whole system should containCinema & Hi-Fi Planner
TT-03Compatibility checkerWhether these things work togetherScreen Finder
TT-04Real-time 3D configuratorHow the finished item will look3D Cabinet Configurator
TT-05Quote & CPQ builderWhat it costs, formallyCinema specification output
TT-06Advisory layerWhat to do when the customer doesn't knowAudio Designer — "guide me"

SHEET 01 — TOOL TYPES

Six shapes, mixed to fit the sale.

Most businesses need two or three of these, not all six. Which ones depends entirely on where your customers currently get stuck — and that's usually obvious from the questions your sales team answers most often.

Every example below is a tool we built for our own retail business and still operate today.

TT-01

Guided selector

Plain-English questions in, a short shortlist out, with the reason each item was chosen. For catalogues too large or too technical to browse.

LIVE EXAMPLEProjector Selector — matches to room, throw distance and light
TT-02

Specification builder

Assembles a complete multi-item system rather than a single product. The customer leaves with a plan, not a basket of guesses.

LIVE EXAMPLECinema & Hi-Fi Planner — room in, full specification out
TT-03

Compatibility checker

Stops the wrong combination before it reaches checkout. Cheaper than the return, and considerably cheaper than the review.

LIVE EXAMPLEScreen Finder — material, gain and geometry against the room
TT-04

Real-time 3D configurator

For products where finish and proportion carry the price. Live materials, live geometry, no render queue and no imagination required.

LIVE EXAMPLE3D Cabinet Configurator — finishes, sizes and options
TT-05

Quote & CPQ builder

Turns a configuration into a document a business can act on — priced, saved, shared, sent, and picked up again three weeks later.

LIVE EXAMPLECinema specification — save, email or buy outright
TT-06

Advisory layer

The route for customers who can't answer the first question. Handles "I don't know" without dead-ending them or handing them to a form.

LIVE EXAMPLEAudio Designer — a dedicated "guide me" path

Two of these have a dedicated guide: 3D product configurator development and guided selling & product recommendation tools.

SHEET 02 — THE CONNECTED SYSTEM

The tools are the easy part. Connecting them isn't.

Five separate tools that each ask the same six questions is five abandoned sessions. The architectural decision that makes the difference is storing the customer's answers once, in a shared profile, and letting every tool read from it.

Each tool stays short. Collectively they behave like one system that remembers you.

A room measured in the planner is still measured when the customer reaches the screen finder an hour later.

PP-AV — SCHEMATIC
01Room Planner
02Audio Designer
03Projector Selector
04Screen Finder
053D Cabinet
SHARED CUSTOMER PROFILERoom dimensions, seating, light, budget, layout, choices already made — written once, read by every tool.
OUTPUTOne complete specification
HAND-OFFBasket, saved quote or enquiry

SHEET 03 — UNDER THE SURFACE

Where these projects usually fail.

Rarely on the rendering. Almost always on the commercial rules — the combinations that can't be built, the discount that applies differently than anyone wrote down, the configuration that reaches the warehouse in a form nobody can pick.

One real example: a volume discount that counts units rather than distinct products. Trivial to state, easy to implement backwards, and wrong in a way that only shows up in the margin report months later.

CUSTOMER-FACING
  • Responsive guided journeys, built mobile-first
  • Live visual feedback as options change
  • Alternatives offered when something won't work
  • Save, share and return to a configuration
  • One readable summary at the end
COMMERCE ARCHITECTURE
  • Pricing authority on the server, never in the browser
  • Product and compatibility rules held as data, not code
  • WooCommerce, Shopify or API hand-off to checkout
  • Configurations that reach fulfilment in a pickable form
  • Structured so an AI advisory layer can be added later

SHEET 04 — BUILD LEVELS

Four levels, priced in public.

Scope and price are fixed against a written technical specification at kick-off. Full rates, add-ons and retainers sit on the schedule.

01 / CFG

Foundation configurator

One product family. Focused option logic, live preview and lead capture.

£2,500 — £7,500
02 / ADV

Advanced configurator

More rules, dynamic pricing and quotations, or one system integration.

£7,500 — £15,000
03 / PRO

Professional suite

Multiple connected tools, commerce integration, PDFs, CRM and trade pricing.

£15,000 — £30,000
04 / DXS

Enterprise digital showroom

Shared data, several tools, portals, CPQ, AR, AI or enterprise integration.

FROM £35,000

Every configurator build starts with a Prototype Sprint. Optional add-ons — AR, trade portal, AI recommendations, cinematic rendering — are listed on the schedule of rates.

HOW EVERY BUILD STARTS

Prototype Sprint.

Before committing to a full build, we create a working prototype of your product in one to four weeks—something real in a browser, not a slide deck.

SprintPriceWhat a full version would normally cost
One-week Focus Sprint£625Standard value: £2,500–£4,000
Two-week Prototype Sprint£1,125Standard value: £4,000–£7,500
Three-week System Sprint£2,000Standard value: £7,500–£15,000
Four-week Advanced Sprint£3,000Standard value: £15,000+

WHAT YOU GET

  • One real product, configurable and interactive
  • A single core option path — the one that matters most to your sale
  • Real materials and finishes, not placeholders
  • Technical feasibility notes and recommended architecture
  • Fixed quote for the full build

HOW IT WORKS

We recommend the appropriate Sprint based on the complexity of the intended production system. If you proceed within 90 days, your Sprint fee is credited in full against the agreed build price.

Final build pricing depends on product logic, visual assets, integrations, commercial outputs and the level of production refinement required. Plus VAT.

PROVE IT BEFORE WE BUILD IT

START HERE

What question does your sales team answer most often?

That question is usually the tool. Send it to us, along with the product and how you currently sell it, and we'll tell you which of the six shapes above fits — and whether you need one or three.