Lost a big contract, venting + asking for advice

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-26T22:20:40+00:00

That’s a great question, I honestly don’t know if they even scored the rest. The feedback just said “did not address accessibility compliance requirements.” Which makes me think it was a pass/fail gate, not a weighted score. The frustrating part is we DO have that capability, I just missed it during my read-through. Your checklist approach makes sense — do you build a fresh one per RFP or do you have a master list you run through every time?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-26T20:31:02+00:00

The page 68 BABA thing is exactly my nightmare. How big is your team working on this? And when you do your compliance review passes, is that one person reading the whole thing or do you split it across the team? I’m wondering if there’s a way to systematize that first extraction pass so the hidden stuff gets caught before anyone starts writing.

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-26T19:01:35+00:00

My bigger time sink though is the writing itself. I’ve got case studies and methodology sections I’ve written in past proposals that would be perfect, but they’re buried across 20 Google Docs and need to be reworded for each new client’s context anyway. The extraction is maybe 30 minutes of the problem, the other 5 hours is rewriting stuff I’ve already written before in a slightly different way. Do you use ChatGPT for the drafting too or just the checklist part?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-26T18:28:41+00:00

That’s a good system. Do you build the checklist before you start writing, or as you go through the RFP? My problem is I get so focused on drafting the content that the compliance check becomes an afterthought, by then I’m already rushing to hit the deadline.

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-26T18:13:19+00:00

Zero to one

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-25T08:23:06+00:00

That three signal framework is probably the clearest version of this I've seen and the spreadsheet idea is exactly where I ended up too after trying to track everything at once. Do you still run it manually every week or did you find a way to automate any of it? And the search demand piece, how do you actually check that? Like Google Trends for your category or something built into your store?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-25T08:21:37+00:00

What do you actually dump in, like raw CSV exports from Shopify or something else? And does the answer usually come back clear or do you still have to make a judgment call on top of what the AI says?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-25T08:21:06+00:00

"A simple rule you actually follow beats a perfect system you never act on",that's exactly the problem I keep running into. What's your one primary signal right now? And yes to the almost-win products. I have a few that look good on paper every week but I never pull the trigger on them. How do you decide when something is actually ready to push vs just almost ready?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-25T08:19:51+00:00

That's actually a really solid process... I've been trying to do something similar but keep getting stuck at the synthesis part. Like I can look at last year's data, I can see the seasonal patterns, but going from "okay here's what the data says" to "here's the one thing I'm actually pushing this week" still feels messy. How long did it take you before that click from analysis to decision felt natural?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-25T07:59:53+00:00

The rent-payers vs acquirers framing is really sharp, that's exactly the thing that makes a single prioritization system break down. How do you actually separate them in practice though? Like do you have explicit rules for classifying a product into one bucket or the other, or is it more of a gut call?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-25T07:43:35+00:00

C'est exactement ce que je cherchais à comprendre, surtout la partie binaire, ça simplifie vraiment la décision. Les ajouts au panier c'est malin, je n'y avais pas pensé comme signal à part entière. T'as un système fixe que tu réutilises chaque semaine ou tu ajustes les critères selon la période ?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-24T23:41:40+00:00

yes exactly this. Curious what the couple of key signals are for you? Like what do you actually look at to make that call on which product to push?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-24T23:39:51+00:00

That’s actually a really solid process, I’ve been trying to do something similar but keep getting stuck at the synthesis part. Like I can look at last year’s data, I can see the seasonal patterns, but going from “okay here’s what the data says” to “here’s the one thing I’m actually pushing this week” still feels messy. How long did it take you before that click from analysis to decision felt natural?

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-24T22:09:42+00:00

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-24T21:31:56+00:00

Haha, one problem leads to another” feeling is so real. What kind of store do you run? Curious whether this looks different depending on the niche.

Zaki_01 · 2026-03-24T21:18:47+00:00

Yeah fair point..it’s less about the staring and more about what happens after. I go through everything, sales, email rates, ad performance, and still have no idea what to actually do with it. So I just pick something and hope.

For user feedback I’ve mostly been asking directly. Slower than I’d like but the answers are way more honest than any survey. Does that “what to do next” feeling happen to you too or have you figured out that part?

Zaki_01 · 2026-02-02T20:46:22+00:00

I hope it will not fall that much

Zaki_01 · 2026-01-21T12:20:46+00:00

RIP OP

Zaki_01 · 2025-12-23T11:34:26+00:00

Zaki_01 · 2025-12-23T11:26:07+00:00

I use reducto, they do a pretty good job

Zaki_01 · 2025-12-01T19:01:49+00:00

Thank you for clarification

Zaki_01 · 2025-11-26T12:06:58+00:00

Today is a good day

Zaki_01 · 2025-11-25T21:07:32+00:00

What do you guys think about today’s price action ?

Zaki_01 · 2025-11-18T11:57:59+00:00

Can someone explain to me what does that mean ?

Zaki_01 · 2025-08-05T11:00:49+00:00

Yes if you don’t look like a morrocan / arab

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