Know the right price before negotiation and protect every margin point.
Know what the product should cost before you negotiate.
Start AntCosting DemoThe buyer pain AntCosting addresses
Comparing a new quote with last year's price does not show whether either price is right.
Small buyers rarely have internal GSD, material-cost, and regional factory-cost teams.
Cost sheets mix EXW, FOB, CIF, logistics, overhead, and margin inconsistently.
Product construction is not translated into transparent labor operations.
Material prices, consumption, MOQ, and wastage assumptions are difficult to challenge.
Historical customs values are often treated as exact product cost despite major comparability gaps.
Direct financial and operating value
- Build a transparent bottom-up should-cost before supplier negotiation.
- Separate product cost, origin charges, logistics, duty, and landed-cost assumptions.
- Identify the highest-value cost-engineering opportunities by component.
- Reconcile a parameter estimate with historical market evidence without blending their provenance.
- Set an opening position, target range, and review threshold using explicit assumptions.
AntCosting creates an explainable cost view from product construction, GSD operations, material consumption, benchmark prices, manufacturing conditions, and historical trade proxies. It gives a small or medium buyer fact-based negotiation power without presenting an AI estimate as a supplier quotation.
How AI, sourcing data, and experts contribute
AI
Extracts structured construction from specifications, asks only commercially relevant clarification questions, proposes GSD operation sequences and consumption assumptions, finds comparable benchmark records, and explains variance and negotiation priorities.
Sourcing data
GSD benchmarks, material-price evidence, and historical trade proxies keep every should-cost component traceable to its source.
Experts
Generated operations stay labelled AI Estimated until an expert marks them Expert Reviewed, and expert judgment separates explainable scope differences from a genuine negotiation opportunity.
Primary workflow
Define the cost structure and manufacturing scenario
Estimate SMV and CM from garment construction
Estimate BOM cost from material price and consumption
Compare parameter and historical estimates and approve a negotiation range
Connected to the rest of the platform
Inputs from other modules
- From AntConception: the approved specification, BOM, materials, construction, quantity, tests, and risks.
Outputs to downstream modules
- To AntSourcing: the approved target FOB range, opening negotiation position, review threshold, cost-driver breakdown, required manufacturing processes, and unresolved validation questions.
Explainability, evidence, and buyer control
- Every cost component opens its formula, source, assumptions, and confidence.
- AI Estimated and Expert Reviewed status remain visibly distinct at every stage.
- Parameter and historical trade estimates are shown side by side, never averaged into one unexplained number.
- Buyer overrides retain history and propagate recalculation downstream.