Comparison · 2026SEQUESTO vs AutogenAI: AutogenAI Writes the Draft. SEQUESTO Runs the Whole Bid.
AutogenAI is bid writing software: it analyses the tender and turns an outline into a first draft. SEQUESTO does the whole bid: James, our AI bid agent, reads the tender pack and sets out the key dates, assigns the work, writes the full response, tailors the CVs, builds the presentation, fills the buyer's forms and gathers every certificate into one zip, ready to upload. One workspace, set up around your process, with every answer traceable.
Honest Positioning
Where Each Platform Shines
AutogenAI is a good fit if you…
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Common Frustrations
Where AutogenAI Runs Out of Room
Based on AutogenAI's published material and its G2 reviews (4.3 out of 5 from 177 reviews), checked November 2026. G2's summary of those reviews lists the learning curve as the most common complaint (18 mentions), followed by user difficulty (15), an interface users do not find intuitive (12), a steep learning curve (11) and learning difficulty (10). Reviewers also describe drafts that need heavy rework and documents they cannot fill in the tool. These are the situations where, in our view, a writing-first tool asks the most of a bid team.
AutogenAI Writes the Draft. The Buyer's Documents Are Still Yours.
On G2, AutogenAI users say they cannot use it to fill in the client's documents, cut and paste because there is no PDF integration, and finish the layout in other tools. AutogenAI's own help centre says there is no flow yet for a revised RFP, and lists its submit stage as still being delivered. The rest of the bid happens somewhere else: the buyer's Word, Excel and PDF forms filled by hand, the CVs rewritten for this buyer, and the certificates renamed and zipped the night before the deadline. In SEQUESTO, James fills the buyer's own files, hands them back in the buyer's format and gathers every attachment into one zip, in the same workspace as the response.
A Powerful Tool Your Experts Have to Learn
Five of AutogenAI's most frequent complaints on G2 are about learning it: the learning curve, user difficulty, a non-intuitive interface. One reviewer compares it to learning a new language, and others say tools they had learned keep moving as the interface changes. Most people on a bid are experts who open it twice a month. In SEQUESTO the company sets the process, and each person works it their own way: James adapts to their role and their language, and an expert sees only the questions assigned to them. Our team sets the aOS up around your process after a one-hour session.
A Fluent Draft Still Has to Be Checked
AutogenAI's drafts read well, and reviewers say so. They also describe answers that are generic or verbose and need heavy rework, source references that are not always accurate, and facts from one bid rewritten as if they were company policy. Other languages go through a Translate action. James drafts from your past bids, policies, CVs and certificates, writes directly in the tender's language, shows for every answer what it was based on and how it was built, and checks every requirement against the finished document before the bid is marked complete.
Feature Comparison · Checked November 2026 · Grey = not in AutogenAI's published material
SEQUESTO vs AutogenAI, Feature by Feature
Plan, Assign and Track Every Bid
Every Document the Buyer Asks For, Not Only the Draft
Built Around Your Team, Traceable to the Source
Where AutogenAI Wins
AutogenAI is built for bid writing, and it shows. Users rate it 4.3 out of 5 on G2 across 177 reviews and praise the time it saves on a first draft and its customer success team. It analyses the tender into a compliance matrix and checklist, prepares a bid/no-bid pack, drafts each section from a storyboard and reviews the draft against the requirements. It exports to Word, InDesign and PowerPoint, and finds new UK public tenders on portals such as Find a Tender. Its list of certifications is long: ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials Plus, FedRAMP High and IRAP among them. For a writing team producing long narrative bids, in UK public sector or US federal work, it does the job. But writing the draft is one step of a bid. SEQUESTO runs all of them.
Migration
Switching From AutogenAI: How It Works
Bring Your Past Bids and Documents
Export your AutogenAI library and past bids if you want to keep them. You don't have to: SEQUESTO works from any file, past bids, policies, CVs, certificates and slide decks, with no question-and-answer pairs to build first.
Drop It Into the Knowledge Hub
Upload Excel, Word, PDF, images or slide decks, in any language, or connect SharePoint and Google Drive. Everything is converted and indexed automatically: no preprocessing, no tagging, no mapping answers to questions.
We Tailor It to You
Our team does this step for you. In a one-hour session you walk us through how you work, and we set the aOS up around it: your process, your tone of voice, your personas, the properties you track and your dashboards. Nothing to build on your side. Included on every plan.
Start a Full Bid the Next Day
Documents uploaded, one hour with us, and the aOS can be ready the next day, set up properly around your process. Then start on a live bid, from the tender pack and the go/no-go decision to the submission package, with every access, change and approval logged from the first submission.
Bring Your Past Bids and Documents
Export your AutogenAI library and past bids if you want to keep them. You don't have to: SEQUESTO works from any file, past bids, policies, CVs, certificates and slide decks, with no question-and-answer pairs to build first.
Drop It Into the Knowledge Hub
Upload Excel, Word, PDF, images or slide decks, in any language, or connect SharePoint and Google Drive. Everything is converted and indexed automatically: no preprocessing, no tagging, no mapping answers to questions.
We Tailor It to You
Our team does this step for you. In a one-hour session you walk us through how you work, and we set the aOS up around it: your process, your tone of voice, your personas, the properties you track and your dashboards. Nothing to build on your side. Included on every plan.
Start a Full Bid the Next Day
Documents uploaded, one hour with us, and the aOS can be ready the next day, set up properly around your process. Then start on a live bid, from the tender pack and the go/no-go decision to the submission package, with every access, change and approval logged from the first submission.
See How SEQUESTO Runs Your Bid Operation
Book a demo and see your next bid run end to end in SEQUESTO: from the tender pack and the go/no-go decision to the submission package, in one workspace.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
AutogenAI writes the draft; SEQUESTO runs the whole bid. AutogenAI analyses the tender, plans the response and drafts it section by section, for the bid team to finish and format. In SEQUESTO, writing is one part of what James, our AI bid agent, does. He also reads the tender pack and turns the key dates into tracked deadlines, assigns the work and follows up on what is missing, writes the full response, the executive summary and the cover letter, tailors CVs and references, builds the presentation from your template, fills the buyer's Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint files, and gathers the certificates and attachments into one zip, named the buyer's way. He drafts from any content you have, writes in the tender's language and shows for every answer how it was built. The company sets the stages, fields, workflows and dashboards without code, and each person works the bid their own way.
In our view, SEQUESTO. On G2, the complaints AutogenAI users mention most are about learning it: the learning curve, user difficulty and an interface they do not find intuitive. In SEQUESTO an expert who opens the bid twice a month sees their assigned questions and nothing else, in their own language, and James works in the role the company defined for them.
Yes. The company sets the process: stages, fields, document types and workflows, configured without code or copied from ready-made set-ups for public tenders, RFPs, security questionnaires and DDQs. It also decides who sees what: each team or person gets view or edit access to a project, a folder, a single document or a single question, a Knowledge Hub document or a dashboard, and James works inside the same permissions. Within that process, James works in the role the company defined for each person, remembers how they like to work and writes in their language. An expert who opens the bid twice a month sees their assigned questions and nothing else.
Yes. James drafts from your past bids, policies, CVs and certificates and shows, for every answer, the sources it used and how it was built, step by step. Every file created, moved, shared or deleted, every comment and every access change is on record with the person who did it and when, and every approval is logged. Before a bid is marked complete, James checks every requirement against the finished document and grades it as compliant, partial, missing or needing clarification. AutogenAI shows the sources it drew on; its published material does not describe showing how an answer was built, and some G2 reviewers say its source references are not always accurate.
In our view, SEQUESTO. A public tender is scored on documents written in the buyer's language: plans of approach, method statements and mandatory forms. James writes them directly in the tender's language, in 30+ languages, from content in any language, so a Dutch tender can be answered from an English or French library. AutogenAI's editor offers a Translate action; its published material does not describe drafting directly in other languages.
AutogenAI does not publish its prices. On G2, reviewers describe pricing on request, minimum seat commitments, onboarding fees and a licence for everyone who reviews a draft. SEQUESTO's plans are on our pricing page, with onboarding included on every plan.
In the EU or the US, as the customer chooses when the account is created, on every plan; the choice cannot be changed later. The AI runs in the same region, with full tenant isolation. Customer data is never used to train AI models. SEQUESTO is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited.
Yes, if you want to. Export your library documents and past bids and drop them into the Knowledge Hub, which accepts Excel, Word, PDF, images and slide decks and indexes them automatically. It isn't required: SEQUESTO drafts from any file, so past bids, policies, CVs and certificates work as they are, without question-and-answer pairs. Switching can go fast: upload your documents, walk us through your process in a one-hour session, and our team configures the aOS around your process, tone of voice, personas, properties and dashboards. It can be ready the next day, so you start on a full bid straight away. Onboarding is included on every plan.