RFP and Proposal Automation for Professional Services & Consulting Teams

Consulting and services organisations compete on expertise, credibility, methodology and delivery assurance – yet much of their proposal work involves repetitive drafting, assembling CVs, tailoring case studies, and managing long compliance sections. Cognaire Respond accelerates proposal creation, strengthens consistency, and ensures every submission reflects your best thinking and your best people.

Built for the way consulting firms bid, differentiate and showcase expertise

Answers you can trust, built for your workflow

Cognaire Respond combines knowledge automation, semantic search, and real-time reasoning to ensure every question is answered accurately and aligned with your unique content and compliance guidelines.

Ensure stylistic consistency across all proposal content

Large proposal teams often struggle with inconsistent tone and writing style, especially when multiple SME authors contribute. Respond’s language rules enforce consistent voice, structure, terminology and answer style across all sections.

Make CVs and case studies consistent, high-quality and bid-ready

Professional services firms rely heavily on CVs and case studies to demonstrate experience. Respond provides structured CV and case study management with full version history, centralised storage and easy tailoring for each bid.

Stop losing time rewriting methodologies, approaches and project examples

Consulting teams repeatedly describe their delivery methodology, project governance, risk management, change approach and tooling across every bid. Respond retrieves approved content from your governed corpus and drafts polished, client-ready answers in minutes.

How leading consulting firms stay ahead

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Reduction in drafting effort for methodologies, approach sections and repeatable proposal content. Clear, reusable content + multi-stage AI = faster turnaround.

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Faster completion of CVs, case studies and SME-driven content. Centralised CV/case library + AI tailoring dramatically reduces manual editing.

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Saved per major tender or framework submission. SMEs and bid managers spend time refining messaging – not assembling documents.

How consulting teams use Respond day-to-day

CVs, case studies and tailored capability statements – all in one place

Consulting firms differentiate themselves through their people and their project history. Respond streamlines the population, tailoring and updating of CVs and case studies to match the opportunity.

Analytics that improve predictability and bid velocity

Leaders track completion, bottlenecks, SME workload and content quality. Respond highlights missing content, corpus gaps and areas needing improvement, enabling continuous optimisation of reusable content.

Collaboration designed for multi-practice teams

Multiple service lines and subject matter experts contribute to the same bid without conflict. Assignment, progress tracking and real-time locking ensure smooth collaboration. The My Questions workspace enables SMEs to review content across multiple proposals without navigating between documents.

AI-drafted answers from your best methodologies, delivery frameworks and case studies

Respond uses your curated content – methodologies, artefact templates, delivery frameworks, sector-specific expertise, case studies, CVs, governance models and assurance processes – to draft high-quality, tailored responses.

One workspace for every proposal, tender and qualification pack

Bid managers, proposal writers, practice leads and SMEs work together on all types of questionnaires: RFPs, RFQs, capability statements, pre-qualifications, due-diligence packs, vendor assurance forms and government tenders.Import Excel, PDF, Word or portal text and Respond automatically extracts questions and organises them into topics.

How consulting teams use Respond day-to-day

Answers you can trust, built for your workflow

Cognaire Respond combines knowledge automation, semantic search, and real-time reasoning to ensure every question is answered accurately and aligned with your unique content and compliance guidelines.

Step 1: Import

Import your RFPs and questionnaires

Upload Excel, CSV or unstructured content such as tender portals, RFIs or government procurement packs. Respond identifies questions, groups them into topics and prepares them for answering.

Step 2: Draft

Draft high-quality, tailored answers using your curated methodologies and case studies

Select appropriate content sets (service line, capability, sector, practice area). Respond retrieves relevant corpus documents and drafts tailored, high-quality responses through its two-stage AI pipeline.

Step 3: Complete

Collaborate, refine and export

SMEs review answers, refine approach descriptions, validate case studies and ensure alignment with the client’s objectives. Post-answer review analysis identifies content gaps, risks and inconsistencies before submission.

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