Price calculator assistant

An AI-powered assistant that helps users with price calculations for laptops

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the challenge

For this project, the challenge was to create an automated tool that could support calculations of the value of second hand laptops for the pricing team of a secondhand IT asset broker.

This project was initiated by Planbit, a company that, amongst other activities, buys and sells IT assets like laptops. They were seeking a tool to help them predict values before buying assets, by harnessing the power of AI.

For this project I was granted access to a large dataset with records of historical data about laptop sales. Several approaches were explored to use this data to make price predictions. I landed on the automation tool called n8n, in which I designed a custom workflow. I also designed the dashboard for users.

The end result was a webapp which allowed users to either chat with a chatbot assistant or upload a file with laptops listed. In the n8n backend, both historical data and live web searches were combined to provide an accurate estimation of a laptop value, powered by LLM integration. Authentication for login and easy data addition were developed in the workflow as well.

Even though Planbit has opted for a custom ML model for more accurate predictions, they were pleased with the solutions I developed, giving them a glance at the possibilities of agentic workflows like these.


year

2025

timeframe

3 months

tools

n8n

category

Personal Project

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The n8n workflow
The n8n workflow
The n8n workflow

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My role

My role within this project was to find a way to make use of AI to assist Planbit in their calculations for laptop price predictions. I experimented with different tools and landed on n8n, which I used to build the agentic workflow. This marked my first experience in building AI powered tools and opened my view of the possibilities.

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i'm open for freelance projects, feel free to email me to see how we can collaborate

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i'm open for freelance projects, feel free to email me to see how we can collaborate