Consulting & Advisory
Consulting proposals won on your people.
Win on your people and your track record, not on reformatting them. In a consulting bid, the buyer scores your team, your references and your approach. Yet most of the bid team's week goes into finding the right case study, rewriting CVs into the buyer's template and chasing partners for their section. James, SEQUESTO's AI bid agent, does that work, so your partners spend their time on the approach that wins.
Who this is forBid managers, proposal managers and practice coordinators in management consulting, engineering consultancies, audit, legal and advisory firms.
The Challenge
Why consulting bids eat billable hours
The right reference, somewhere
The buyer asks for three projects of similar scope in the public sector in the last five years. The project sheets sit in old bids, on a shared drive and in a partner's memory.
CVs in a new template, every time
Each buyer wants its own CV format, its own word count and sometimes anonymised names. Twelve CVs are rewritten by hand, from five versions of each.
Partners chased by e-mail
Strategy, digital, finance and legal each own a section. The bid manager chases them between client meetings and stitches four writing styles into one response.
How it works
You set the approach. James does the assembly.
01
Read the buyer's criteria
James reads the RFP or tender and lists what the buyer will score: team, references, methodology, price, and the exact criteria for each. He writes the bid/no-bid brief in your format.
Analyse & qualify
02
Match your references and people
James searches past bids, project sheets and CVs by meaning, shows which references and consultants meet each criterion, and which fall short.
Reference mapping
03
Tailor, not stretch
He rewrites each case study and CV for this buyer, in the buyer's template and language, and anonymises them in one instruction if the tender asks. Facts come only from your documents, with the source shown.
Draft answers
04
Bring in each practice
Each partner sees only the sections assigned to them, in their own view. James drafts first, comments where input is still owed, and stitches the response into one voice.
Collaborate & reviewBefore and with SEQUESTO
| Before | With SEQUESTO |
|---|---|
| Searching old bids for a similar project | References matched to each criterion, with the gaps shown |
| Twelve CVs rewritten in the buyer's template | CVs tailored and placed in the buyer's template by James |
| Partners e-mailed a Word file | Each partner answers their own sections in SEQUESTO |
| Four writing styles in one response | One voice, in your firm's tone |
| The methodology rewritten from a blank page | Drafted from your past approaches, for this buyer's brief |
Worked example
A transformation programme for a public utility (illustrative)
An advisory firm receives a tender from a water utility for a finance transformation programme. The buyer asks for three references of comparable scope, CVs for a programme director and four consultants in its own Word template, and a 10-page methodology. James lists the award criteria and checks 60 past project sheets: four references meet every criterion. The bid manager picks three. James tailors them, rewrites five CVs into the buyer's template and drafts the methodology from two past programmes. The finance and digital partners each review only their sections. One consultant's CV lacks the certification the buyer asks for, so James reports it instead of guessing.
Relevant Features
Only in SEQUESTO
CVs and references, not only answers
Tailored to the buyer's criteria as part of the bid.
JamesThe buyer's template, filled in place
Reference tables, CV forms and pricing sheets, layout untouched.
Form filling
Partners only see what they need
Sections, pricing and day rates visible to the people you choose.
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In 30 minutes we show you the matched references, the tailored CVs and the methodology draft, from your own documents.
FAQ
Questions from consulting and advisory teams
No. James works from the CVs, project sheets and past bids you already have, in whatever version they are.
Yes. Ask once and James removes names and client references across every CV and the whole response.
Copilot helps one person write. James works inside the bid: he matches references to the buyer's criteria, writes into the buyer's template, assigns sections to partners and checks every requirement before the bid is called complete.
Yes. James writes in your firm's tone, follows your company and project rules, and every partner can edit the draft.