Ducker Carlisle Expands Consulting with 8 New AI Strategy & Solution Offerings

Includes Pre-Packaged Bidding, Pricing and Other Solutions Customizable and Deployable in Just 8 Weeks

DETROIT, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ducker Carlisle, a U.S.-based global market research, strategy consulting and M&A advisory firm, today announced eight new AI-enabled solutions focused on quickly driving top-line growth and bottom-line efficiencies for manufacturers in heavy industries. The solutions slash AI implementation timelines by as much as 75% and include AI-powered RFP response preparation, quote development, cross-system data extraction, product pricing, invoice management and workflow automation as well as Gen AI-based lead generation and strategic AI use case identification.

Developed by Ducker Carlisle's dedicated SparkWise Solutions team, the new offerings combine the SparkWise group's deep AI expertise including building AI projects at Google with Ducker Carlisle's 30+ years of helping optimize business for clients in the automotive, heavy equipment, building and construction, industrial and materials sectors. All eight solutions are designed to serve organizations in these industries as well as private equity firms' portfolio clients in the same markets.

The suite includes six pre-packaged AI solutions built specifically to boost sales revenue, trim bottom-line costs, and enable customization and deployment by the SparkWise team in as little as eight weeks. Early adopters have seen results including a $36M increase in annual incremental revenue from improved RFP wins, identification of $1+M in invoicing mistakes, and six-figure savings associated with reducing manual data collection.

• The SparkWise BidMaster utilizes AI to automate the majority of RFP proposal preparation, enabling users to focus on tailoring their responses to the requesting organization's requirements in order to improve win rates.
• The SparkWise QuoteMaster generates bids in seconds by using AI to automate deal sourcing, data extraction and quote assembly.
• The SparkWise Librarian leverages AI to eliminate time-consuming manual data collection across multiple legacy systems and other data silos.
• The SparkWise PriceGenius expedites pricing of SKUs such as automotive spare parts by employing AI to provide recommendations based on live price data points, avoiding tedious SKU-by-SKU research and helping ensure timely price adjustments to maximize margins.
• The SparkWise ContractNavigator uses AI to manage procurement, including manually checking sourcing agreements, contracts and invoices for errors as well as automatically generating invoices and purchase orders.
• The SparkWise SmartFlow automates repetitive manual business processes using LLM-powered automated agents and solutions to help improve productivity and reduce errors.

The new offerings also include:

• The SparkWise CXAIOptimizer, which helps increase client visibility and new lead generation through AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude AI that are now competing with traditional search engines.
• The SparkWise Igniter, which helps clients identify, quantify and prioritize the most productive AI use cases and includes a strategic roadmap with timelines and tech/data readiness evaluation. Clients wishing to proceed can also engage Ducker Carlisle to build custom solutions leveraging SparkWise templates, AI workflows and other proprietary building blocks for rapid deployment.

"Only 22% of companies have advanced beyond the AI proof-of-concept stage, and only 4% are creating substantial business value. That's because they aren't focusing on areas where AI can quickly move the needle in terms of the bottom-line results," said SparkWise's Fabien Cros, former Data & AI Country Lead for Manufacturing at Google. "We have built our new AI solution suite to help clients initiate and scale their AI journey in a way that ensures that every engagement has rapid, meaningful business impact."

All solutions are hosted in the client's cloud/IT environment to mitigate cybersecurity risks. For more information, email [email protected].

About Ducker Carlisle

Ducker Carlisle is a global market research, strategy consulting and M&A advisory firm that helps many of the world's largest companies and private equity firms optimize business performance and accelerate growth across complex markets. Founded in 1961 with offices across North America, Europe and Asia, the firm provides a unique continuum of services to deliver custom, industry-centric solutions enabling clients to maximize business results. For more information, visit Ducker Carlisle I Twitter I LinkedIn

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