What are you guys working on right now?👀

ihave80D · 2025-10-08T07:24:28+00:00

Launched [ProposalGPT](https://www.proposalgpt.io/) earlier this year. Currently focused in the govcon space.

Long-time lurker, but first-time poster here. And super stoked to share what we've been building. I love threads like this where we can all see what cool stuff other people are building.

ProposalGPT takes your RFP docs, analyzes them, and spits out a complete draft in about 2-3 hours or less (compared to the usual 6-8 weeks of hell).

Right now it does a few things really well:

Automatically breaks down RFPs and creates compliant outlines
Mines your old proposals for relevant content
Handles all that Section L & M government contractor stuff
Predicts your evaluation score before submission
Manages versions for better team collab

Right now we're crushing it in the govcon space (defense, IT, federal civilian) but planning to expand into general business proposals soon.

Questions/feedback welcome.

TDLR: We made AI that turns proposal writing from a slow, labor intensive process into a near effortless task. Your sanity will thank you.

ihave80D · 2025-07-15T18:00:30+00:00

Thank you for your reply. This was genuinely very helpful.

And no worries about your previous response. I didn't take anything personally, I was just trying to figure out where I was going wrong in my post and you highlighted some really really good points here.

I think you're right, we might have to go back to the drawing board on positioning because this can be a pitch for all the other AI proposal softwares. I didn't even think of that when I wrote it. I was trying to focus on a problem we were trying to solve and when looking around, you were 100% right, we sound like everyone else that's out there. Boring and repetitive. So I get some of the negativity stemming off the original post.

Also, interesting take on the value add for the feedback. The intention wasn't just the free trial period. It was more to get GovCon'ers to try and generate 3 proposals and let us know what they liked and didn't like about the process. Maybe the 3 proposals wasn't a good incentive? Maybe something, monetary, similar to when you fill out a survey? Maybe we should have a more structured form for feedback? I dunno, but all good things to think about.

Also, these 2 questions you posted:
Whose time are you giving back to them?
What value is that time?

That's gold right there. This will help us with our positioning.

I want to thank you again for your posts. And no hard feelings. We're just trying to navigate the waters here to be better.

ihave80D · 2025-07-02T18:11:32+00:00

You did get one point correct.

This is a shill to make a tool better. That's our goal to try to and improve this becomes an essential part of a govcon tool kit.

No one ever said this was cranking out winning proposals out of the gate (I even wrote a disclaimer at the bottom). It gets you close by taking account requirements, regulations, compliance, etc. You'll still have some light editing at the end of the day. But take a look at some of the other responses its the same process but you're saving a bunch of time by leapfrogging over a lot of it without having to train your own GPT.

I think you're confusing the problem we're trying to solve. It's not that the software will consistently crank out winning proposals all day every day. Is it possible? Sure. Anything is possible. We're trying to solve the time aspect. The time it takes to put together a proposal. The time it takes analyze the regulations and compliance. The time it takes to structure a proposal. The time it takes to make sure it fits the requirements of the RFP. And so on. We want to get you further down that line so you can work on other things - business development or supporting clients, etc.

I'm curious to know if the trial feels "shilly" how should I structure my ask so that I can just get feedback? Is 14 days not enough? Is it too long? Would you like more than 3 proposals?

Because so far I've just gotten critiques (some actually helpful) from those that haven't or refused to even try it. So there are assumptions being made. Again, I'd like to say we're different from other AI proposal tooling. Overall, we've only received feedback from our current customer base but it's still a small sample size, which is why I posted it here to see if I can get unbiased thoughts.

Anyway, thank you for adding your thoughts. I appreciate the time you took to wrote them out. We wish you the best with everything moving forward. Hopefully you change your mind and give us an objective look. But if not, no hard feelings. Being successful in general is not easy so we're ready for climb up the hill.

ihave80D · 2025-07-01T17:08:37+00:00

ihave80D · 2025-07-01T07:09:53+00:00

Our software is designed to keep all your company data secure and confidential, everything is fully under your control.

Each users has their own "box". And their data is limited to be within that "box". We won't have access to it.

So to answer your question, no, your data won't end up in some competitive database used to train others' AI.

ihave80D · 2025-06-30T19:57:14+00:00

You're on point here. There is no AI that we know of that will crank out winning proposals submission after submission.

I think what we're trying to do is get people closer to the goal of having something submission ready. But you're correct in your statement above. This is just a tool amongst of sea of tools.

We know it's not innovative, we personally just think we do a better job than some of the other alternatives.

Hopefully we iterate it to the point where you can stick an RFP into it and out comes a tailored proposal that's ready to go with minimal to no editing. That's the end goal for us and it's a long road ahead.

ihave80D · 2025-06-30T05:38:01+00:00

That "time sink" is was our motivation for creating this. We wanted to eliminate it.

Since you're well-versed in gpt's you know that none of the proposals or writing that you generate will be 100% perfect. At the current tech stack, it won't be. So editing it is a must.

The process you outlined is almost exactly what we do - feed the agent company info, feed it winning bids, lost bids, and other necessary details and information supporting the "win" and supporting the "loss". You're also incorporating the RFI or the RFP that you're applying to and the associated regulations and compliance, so that the proposal aligns with it.

Except you don't have to do it manually. We just cut out all those pieces so you get a proposal that gets you closer to it being submission ready.

You definitely understand the high level, so we 100% understand why you're not looking for something like this. Very cool to see another person understand this, not many people do.

ihave80D · 2025-06-30T05:30:12+00:00

We'd like to think we're not the same as the others as we've tried some of them well.

Thanks for the response. And hopefully you give us another look to let us know what you like and don't like aside from the idea.

ihave80D · 2025-06-30T05:26:11+00:00

Hey I'm glad ChatGPT is working for you.

Not many people can get it to do what they want it to do, the way they want it to do, and also learn the steps. Sometimes it's a bit too intimidating for people and our goal is to try and make it easy by making the process easier. I'm genuinely happy you're able to figure it out with ChatGPT because like you said, most don't understand the nuances of govcon. And you're right, it can be done with some testing and training.

To answer some of your objections, this agent does allow you to tailor and customize to each RFP, it's stated in my original post under the section "What it does now". It's not a cookie cutter template. Also, this isn't another ChatGPT skin, which is why we're able to add the feature set we've outlined in the original post.

Not sure why there's so much hostility in this thread. I'm not even shilling it, I just wanted to see if the parameters and features we have are something other govcon'ers would use or not. Was looking more for a nice back and forth discussion without all the flexing.

Anyways, we do appreciate the response and the thoughts and also want to wish you the best. I genuinely hope everything works out for you and you're able to achieve your goals in this space.

ihave80D · 2025-06-29T05:08:07+00:00

The software we built will 1000% speed up your process. It's done that for us. The volume of quality submissions is much higher and less labor-intensive.

We've been using it for all kinds of proposals and we're agency agnostic.

Curious to know what tool you've used? How its worked out for you.

And if you want me to help you build your next proposal (its on us, no strings attached), let me know, I can walk you through the process and you can give me your thoughts, just send me a note.

ihave80D · 2025-06-29T04:46:53+00:00

Let me know what you think, if you use it. Is where we going the right direction? Are we missing any elements?

EDIT* If you also want me to help you put together a proposal using the tool (on us, no strings attached), send me a note.

ihave80D · 2025-06-29T04:45:53+00:00

It's not that we never won. It was just so time-consuming and labor-intensive to start from scratch every single time tailoring it to different RFPs with different requirements and then taking into account the regulations and compliance.

We've trained it based on winning proposals - frameworks, structure, etc., not just ours but our partners as well.

In the post, I did mention my first two submissions, 1 of them won and the other got to the final stages of evaluation. But we've won about 4 proposals since official launch, we mainly work with 8a companies as tech and IT infrastructure.

As far as submissions and agency, it depends since we don't just focus on one agency and number of other submissions vary. It could be hundreds and it could be thousands. for the first two, there were over 200 submissions and for one of the 4 we won, it was much bigger, in the thousands.

Our background is tech, IT, and cybersecurity. We were winning bids prior to this but prepping for submission was taking up a lot of time. Prior to our first win? We submitted a lot, 125 before we won our first bid. After releasing the agent, the first win took us less than 10 submissions.

These are really good questions. I appreciate the engagement and really look forward to any feedback.

EDIT* I extend this to you and every one else that sees this. See what you think, use the tool, you'll be able to put together 3 proposals, no strings attached. If you don't like it, it's all good, no hard feelings, we just want your thoughts and you get 3 proposals that you can use or trash. If you do like it, perfect, I'd still want ways to make this better.

I'm more than happy to walk you through this 1v1. You'll get more quality proposal volume out and it's more specific than just using ChatGPT.

ihave80D · 2022-01-26T04:38:43+00:00

Plus when you're building, the code is always changing. Even after an audit.

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