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Notes from the proposal desk

On RFP response quality, expiring claims, and what actually separates a won proposal from a lost one.

RFP process · 7 min read

Expiring claims, not bad writing, are the real RFP risk

Most post-mortems on a lost or flagged RFP blame the writing. The actual failure is almost always a claim that was true when it was first written and stopped being true sometime before submission.

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Win/loss analysis · 6 min read

What win/loss data actually teaches you, if you bother to log it

Most teams collect win/loss reasons and then never touch them again. Here's what changes when that data actually feeds back into what gets drafted next time.

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Security questionnaires · 8 min read

Security questionnaire fatigue is a process problem, not a volume problem

The number of security questionnaires isn't the issue — most of them ask overlapping versions of the same forty questions. The issue is that nobody's reusing the answer, verified, from three weeks ago.

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