Compare options

Turn quotes, requirements, or candidate options into a comparison that supports a decision.

Best for

Comparing vendor quotes, tools, or service packages.
Revisiting an analysis when the budget or requirements change.

Skills & plugins

Choose the capabilities available in your environment:

Capability	Purpose
Spreadsheet editing	Organize data, calculate costs, and revise workbooks.
File access	Read quotes, requirements, and existing analyses.

Starter prompt

EvoX · Cowork

Compare the options in the attached material against [decision requirements]. Use consistent cost and time definitions. Preserve source data and explain each option's strengths, limitations, and missing information. Present a comparison table with a brief recommendation and its tradeoffs. If there is not enough information to recommend an option, list what I need to confirm first.

Confirm each step

Before you start

Provide the quotes and requirements together. Explain the budget, mandatory conditions, and whether cost, service, or another factor matters most.

You can attach an existing comparison and specify what to update. Creating or editing a workbook requires spreadsheet support in your environment; see Skills & Plugins for relevant extensions.

What to expect

EvoX organizes the material, aligns the comparison criteria, and explains the reasoning behind its recommendation. Change a condition to see whether the conclusion should change too.

Here is an example conversation:

EvoX

◌ Example conversation

Cowork

Turn these quotes into a comparison of cost, service, and limitations against our requirements. Keep the original quotes, explain the recommendation, and list information the vendors still need to provide.

Read Vendor quotes.xlsx

Read Requirements.docx

Aligned the criteria and organized the workbook

The quotes use a consistent comparison basis. Source data, the comparison, and open questions are kept separately, with tradeoffs and missing information explained in the recommendation.

Option comparison.xlsx

Add a separate scenario for a higher budget without changing the original analysis. Explain which options become eligible and whether the recommendation should change.

Added the scenario and checked dependent calculations

A budget scenario has been added with updated eligibility and recommendation notes. The original quotes and baseline analysis are unchanged.

Option comparison-revised.xlsx

Check cost units, calculations, and missing information after delivery. If a workbook is generated, open it to verify formulas and references.

Make it your own

Change a condition

Change the budget to [new budget] and keep the other requirements unchanged. Preserve the new analysis separately and explain which eligibility decisions and recommendations changed.

Add an option

Add the attached option to the existing comparison. Use the same criteria and explain its main differences from the others without changing source data.

Change priorities

For this decision, prioritize [factor]. Revisit the tradeoffs among options that still meet mandatory requirements. Do not invent scoring weights.

Collect open questions

List the missing information that could affect this decision. Group questions by option so I can follow up with the relevant people.

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