Proposal drafting

From blank page to winning proposal, faster.

Tenderbolt builds your V0 from your own past work, structured around what the client actually asked for.

  • First draft built from your knowledge base, not from scratch
  • Structured around the client's exact requirements
  • Every source traceable, yours to sharpen
AI proposal drafting software showing a structured V0 built from a knowledge base

Trusted by 200+ SMEs, mid-market, and enterprise teams.

  • AFPA
  • APAVE
  • Crit
  • Diot Siaci
  • France Sécurité
  • Generix
  • Geolithe
  • Kelio
  • Lefebvre-Dalloz
  • Manutan
  • PLG
  • Roux TP
  • Sapian
  • Sigma RH
  • Training Orchestra

The blank page is the most expensive part of every bid

Before a word is written, hours are already gone. Finding the right past proposal, extracting the relevant sections, restructuring for a new client. That's before anyone writes anything new.

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  • Hours lost before writing starts

    Hunting for the right past proposal, extracting useful sections, adapting structure. All before a word is written.

  • Copy-paste that doesn't fit

    Reused content that isn't tailored to this client's requirements creates weak proposals that read like templates.

  • Knowledge stuck in silos

    Your best work lives in a folder no one can find under deadline pressure.

  • Inconsistent quality at volume

    Quality depends on who is writing, how much time they have, and which past proposals they happen to find.

  • Senior experts on junior tasks

    Your best people spend hours on structure and sourcing instead of the differentiation that actually wins bids.

A structured first draft, built from your best work

Tenderbolt does the grunt work. You do the winning. A solid V0, fully traceable, ready to sharpen.

Map what the client needs before writing starts

Tenderbolt reads the tender and maps exactly what the client is asking for.

  • Client requirements extracted section by section
  • Scoring criteria identified and weighted
  • Mandatory elements flagged
  • A clear response structure before anyone opens a document
Tenderbolt reading a tender and extracting the key requirements

Right content from your past work, pulled automatically

The right content from your past work, pulled automatically.

  • Past proposals, case studies, technical references
  • Methodology and approach documents
  • Team CVs and credentials
  • Every source linked, nothing invented
Knowledge base interface listing tender documents with checkboxes and filters

A structured first draft, built around the client

A structured first draft built around the client's requirements, not a blank page.

  • Sections organised around the scoring structure
  • Content drawn from your knowledge base, attributed to its source
  • Gaps flagged where your knowledge base has nothing
  • Every source linked, every gap explicitly flagged
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Right expert on each section, from day one

The right expert on each section, coordinated from the start.

  • Sections assigned to contributors as soon as the V0 is ready
  • Comments, edits and approvals in one workspace
  • Version history tracked throughout
  • No more email chains or conflicting Word documents
Team coordinated on a tender response in Tenderbolt

Without Tenderbolt vs. with Tenderbolt

Without Tenderbolt

  • Starting from a blank page or a recycled template

  • Proposal quality depends on who's available

  • Hours chasing experts for the right content

  • Copy-paste errors and references to previous clients

  • No traceability — hard to review and validate

  • New team members take months to produce good proposals

With Tenderbolt

  • A structured first draft built from your actual knowledge base

  • Consistently high-quality first draft, every time

  • AI retrieves relevant past answers automatically

  • Precise, clean content with no legacy contamination

  • Every sentence traced to its source document

  • New hires productive from day one

Write better proposals in less time

Less time on structure. More time on what wins.

Start from a V0, not from zero

A structured first draft built from your best work, ready before your first team meeting.

Tailored to this client, every time

Built around the client's actual requirements and scoring criteria, not a recycled template.

Your experts on what matters

Structure and sourcing are handled. Your team's time goes into the differentiation that wins bids.

+25% win rate. Better proposals from day one.

The Saône riverfront in Lyon with the Fourvière basilica at sunset

A business services group was losing bids not on price but on proposal quality: generic structure, reused content, senior experts arriving too late in the process to make a real difference. With Tenderbolt, the V0 is ready before the first team meeting. Experts spend their time on client-specific differentiation instead of building structure from scratch. Their win rate on contested bids went up 25%.

+25%

win rate on contested bids

€1.45B

in tenders managed by Tenderbolt customers

70%

time saved on proposal drafting

From tender to V0 in three steps

Upload the tender, get a structured first draft, sharpen it with your team.

Upload the tender

  • Drop in the full RFP or tender pack. Tenderbolt maps the client's requirements, scoring criteria and structure.

Review the V0

  • A structured first draft, each section built from your knowledge base and traceable to its source. Gaps are flagged, nothing is invented.

Assign, sharpen and submit

  • Assign sections to the right experts, add client-specific differentiation, and submit a proposal that reads like it was written for this client alone.

Don't take our word for it.

See how Tenderbolt transforms their tender responses

Public Works1,200 employees

“Tenderbolt had a very concrete impact with a 7x ROI. Teams save precious time to focus on substance and operations.”

Hervé L.
Head of Studies
Software420 employees

“Tenderbolt saves us an average of 34 hours per RFP, and it's also a guarantee of reliability for our responses.”

Nathalie I.
Chief Revenue Officer
IT Services800 employees

“We increased our success rate by 25% by doing better analysis upfront and personalizing our proposals.”

Christian N.
CEO

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Stop starting from scratch

Book a demo and see how Tenderbolt builds your next proposal V0 from your own knowledge base.

Frequently Asked Questions

Discover how Tenderbolt accelerates the entire tender response process with AI.

A V0 is your first structured draft: sections in place, requirements addressed, content sourced. It is not the finished proposal. It is the base your experts sharpen into one. Starting from a V0 rather than a blank page is where most of the time saving happens, and where most of the quality improvement comes from.
No, and that is intentional. Tenderbolt builds the structure, sources the content from your knowledge base, and gives you a solid V0. The differentiation, the client-specific argument, the expertise that makes a proposal win: that stays with your team. We do the grunt work. You do the winning.
It reads two things: the tender, to understand what the client is asking for and how they will score it; and your knowledge base, to find the most relevant content from your past work. Every section of the V0 is built from the intersection of those two inputs.
Yes. Technical proposals and mémoires techniques are among the most time-intensive documents in any bid process, precisely because they require deep sourcing from past technical work. Tenderbolt handles the structure and sourcing so your technical experts focus on what only they can add.