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15 Jun 2025
  • Website Development

Stop Writing Proposals from Scratch

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By Tyrone Showers
Co-Founder Taliferro

If your process for responding to RFPs starts with a blank document, you're already wasting time.

Most proposals reuse 80% of the same content—company info, approach, bios, references, past work. But instead of reusing, most teams rebuild. From scratch. Every time. That's hours lost on formatting, copying, and checking version history.

That's not strategy. That's busywork.

The real problem: no system

When I talk to teams that struggle with RFPs, it's not because they lack expertise. It's because they lack a system. Everyone scrambles to find the last good proposal. No one remembers which version had the strongest messaging. By the time the draft is done, half the team is burned out and the deadline is too close to polish it.

This is why I made TODD proposal-aware

I wanted TODD to read the RFP like a person would—pull out the key pieces, connect them to past proposals, and suggest a draft.

Now it does exactly that:

  • Parses the RFP and finds required sections
  • Matches them to similar past responses and inserts content
  • Flags anything missing so I don't overlook details
  • Outputs a clean draft I can review—not write from scratch

No guessing. No digging. Just a solid draft ready to refine.

How it saves me time

Before TODD, I spent 6–10 hours on every proposal. Most of that wasn't writing—it was hunting, formatting, stitching. Now, I spend 1–2 hours reviewing, editing, and tailoring. That's it.

And I'm more consistent. My responses don't miss key points. My tone stays aligned. And I never scramble at the last minute.

Bonus: It learns as I go

Every time I finalize a proposal, TODD learns from it. So the next draft is even tighter. It's not just automation—it's accumulation. Smarter each time.

Final word

If you're still writing from scratch, you're spending too much time on what's already been written.

TODD flips the process. It gives you a strong draft out the gate—so you can focus on winning, not formatting.

Tyrone Showers