RFP deconstruction
Extract requirements, deadlines, attachments, evaluation criteria, and hidden compliance asks.
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Workshop 02 / Proposals
Win More Bids with AI.
Build a repeatable AI-assisted proposal pipeline: faster first drafts, tighter compliance, and one voice across every section.
This workshop is designed for proposal managers, capture managers, and technical writers who need practical AI workflows without losing control of compliance, quality, or win themes.
The Problem
Proposal teams need speed without sacrificing compliance or voice.
RFPs are long, requirements hide in unexpected places, and proposal teams are often stitching together content from multiple authors under deadline pressure.
The right AI workflow accelerates the work while making review stronger: requirements are extracted, compliance is visible, drafts start from prior wins, and the response is red-teamed before submission.
The Pipeline
A repeatable workflow from RFP intake to red-team review.
Compliance matrix
Build a working matrix so nothing buried on page 47 gets missed.
Draft from prior art
Use prior winning material responsibly to create faster first drafts with the right proof points.
Red-team review
Review the proposal from an evaluator perspective before the real evaluator does.
Immediate Skills
What your proposal team learns to do.
Deconstruct any RFP
Turn long RFPs into a requirement inventory and decision-ready brief in minutes.
Harmonize voice
Bring sections from multiple authors into one consistent proposal narrative.
Build win themes
Translate differentiators into proposal structure, section framing, and evaluator language.
Review with discipline
Use AI to critique compliance, clarity, evidence, and evaluator fit.
Sample Agenda
A full-day proposal workflow build.
9:00 AM
Proposal process baseline
Map current bottlenecks, review cycles, source material, and compliance risk.
9:30 AM
RFP extraction
Extract requirements, evaluation criteria, deliverables, deadlines, and open questions.
10:45 AM
Compliance matrix
Create a working matrix and learn where human review matters most.
1:00 PM
Win themes and outline
Shape a proposal outline around evaluator priorities and your strongest proof.
2:30 PM
Draft from prior wins
Generate a first draft section from approved source material and review it critically.
3:30 PM
Red-team review
Use AI as an evaluator to identify gaps, weak claims, compliance misses, and unclear language.
4:15 PM
Reusable proposal playbook
Package the prompts, checks, and review steps into a repeatable team workflow.
What To Bring
The workshop is strongest with your real material.
- A representative RFP or draft RFP
- Prior winning proposal sections or approved boilerplate
- Evaluation criteria, compliance checklist, or capture notes
- Your preferred tools and any policy constraints
Start Here
Ready to make your proposal process faster and more controlled?
Send a short note about your proposal team, bid cycle, and the bottleneck you want to fix first.
Best fit: proposal teams that need speed, compliance visibility, better drafting, and stronger review.
Email Larry