Bid Team Member
Every requirement found. Every answer built on fact.
SEQUESTO is the agentic operating system for the people who write, coordinate and manage bids. James, your AI bid agent, reads the full tender, drafts from your approved content and keeps every instruction in play, so your time goes on strategy and quality.
Who this is forBid writers, bid executives, bid coordinators, bid administrators, proposal writers, bid managers and tender managers working within a bid team.
The challenge
What gets in the way of a strong bid
- 01
Requirements are scattered across the tender pack
The ITT, specification, appendices, pricing schedule and clarification log all carry requirements, and they rarely follow the same format. Building a compliance matrix by hand takes days, and one missed requirement can make a bid non-compliant however strong the rest of the response is.
- 02
The right evidence is hard to find
The case study, policy or statistic you need exists somewhere, in an old bid, a shared drive or a colleague's inbox. Finding it, checking it is current and rewriting it for this buyer's question takes time you do not have before the deadline.
- 03
Contributors are busy and limits are tight
Subject matter experts send input late, in the wrong format and written as marketing copy. You then turn it into factual, evidenced answers that fit strict word or page limits, often in the last few days before submission.
How SEQUESTO helps bid teams
James reads, finds and drafts. You decide what wins.
SEQUESTO brings the buyer's documents and your organisation's knowledge into one workspace. James, the AI bid agent at the centre of SEQUESTO, reads the whole tender, holds every instruction in working memory and drafts answers from your approved content. Your knowledge library is kept separate from the buyer's documents, so every answer is built on sources you trust. You keep control of the strategy, the win themes and the final word.
01
Understand the tender in minutes, not days
James summarises the tender pack, extracts and classifies every requirement, and highlights gaps and ambiguities worth raising as clarification questions. You start writing knowing exactly what the buyer has asked for, and James remembers this in the project's working memory.
02
Draft from evidence you can stand behind
James searches your library in any language, matches content to each question and drafts in natural language (British English, German, Spanish and more) to the persona and word limit you set. Tell him once that a response must be anonymised and he applies that throughout.
03
Fill whatever the buyer sends, your way
James completes the buyer's own files, including questionnaires and complex forms, in the format they arrive. Workflows adapt to the way your team already runs a bid, so you work your way within the team's agreed process.
Relevant features
Built for the way bid teams actually work
Administration
Deadline and milestone extraction
Every date in the tender pack, pulled into one timeline that can also include internal deadlines automatically added.
Clarification question identification
Identify inaccuracies in documentation in minutes.
Clarification log
Every question asked and every answer received, in one place.
Requirement assignment with due dates
Send each requirement to the right person or team, with a date attached.
Contributor reminders
Automatic nudges, so you stop chasing colleagues by email.
Version control
Always know which draft is current and who changed what.
Instant overview of progress
Progress dashboards at both a project and user level so that you can see the progress of each tender, and of all your tenders at once.
Configurable dashboards
Configure any dashboard to show you the metrics you need to see.
Bid calendar export
Key dates sent straight to Outlook or Teams calendars.
Tender analysis
Tender pack summary
The whole tender pack on one page.
Requirement and question extraction and classification
Every requirement and question found, sorted and ready to answer.
Evaluation criteria and weighting analysis
See where the marks are before you write a word.
Go/no-go analysis
Know in minutes whether you can evidence a winning response, using a go/no-go template or creating one from scratch.
Addendum change detection
See exactly what changed when the buyer reissues documents.
Scope and specification breakdown
The services, volumes and locations the buyer wants, set out plainly.
Contract term highlights
Key terms, liabilities and KPIs flagged for commercial review.
Buyer language analysis
Pick up the words and priorities the buyer repeats, so your answers mirror them.
Lot and stage mapping
Multi-lot and multi-stage tenders untangled into a clear structure.
Compliance
Clarification question identification
Identify clarification questions to address potential areas of non-compliance.
Compliance matrix generation
A compliance matrix built from the tender, not by hand.
Answer coverage checking
Confirm every answer responds to every part of the question.
Word and character limit tracking
Stay inside every limit while you write, not after.
Pass/fail question flags
The questions that could rule you out, flagged first.
Submission document checklist
Every certificate, policy and form accounted for before submission.
Format rule checks
Font size, page limits, file naming and file type rules pulled from the instructions and checked against your response.
Cross-reference checks
Answers that refer to appendices or other sections point to documents that actually exist.
Knowledge and content
Semantic library search
Find the right evidence by meaning, not by keyword.
Library kept separate from buyer documents
Answers built on your sources, never blended with the buyer's, whilst reflecting client terminology in answers if desired.
Case study matching
The case study that scores, matched to the question.
CV matching
Automatically identify the most appropriately qualified and experienced candidate for the project, and populate a unified, anonymised CV template.
Direct use of source documents
Use your documents as they are, without building a Q&A bank first.
Content expiry alerts
Know when a policy, certificate or statistic is out of date.
Winning answer capture
Return every submitted answer to the library for next time, or analyse it first based on scored answers.
Writing
Agentic first drafts
A complete first draft from your own approved content.
Personas
Write in any voice, corporate, professional, personable or a mixture, by sector or buyer, with sector-specific terminology.
Working memory across the tender
Say it once and James applies it throughout the bid, including every instruction given in the tender.
Natural language
Answers that read as though a person wrote them. James speaks over 30 languages.
Question deconstruction
Break each question into its scoring elements before drafting.
Win theme threading
Your win themes carried through every answer.
Easy drafting
Work on your answers in one tool, with no need to share documents outside SEQUESTO for SME (subject matter expert) input.
Evidence prompts
Flags where a claim needs a figure, a case study or a named example to back it up.
Social value and sustainability drafting
Responses to social value questions, with commitments drawn from what you have already delivered.
Executive summary drafting
A summary that reflects the whole response, written last and written well.
Editing
Rewriting to word count
Cut to the limit without losing the points that score.
Anonymisation
Remove company references across the whole response in one instruction.
Marketing copy conversion
Turn contributors' marketing copy into factual, evidenced answers.
Consistency checking
The same facts, figures and names in every answer.
Evaluator review
Review each answer as an evaluator would score it, before the buyer does.
Tracked suggestions
See every suggested change and accept the ones you want.
Collaboration with SMEs
Each SME's contribution happens within SEQUESTO, fully tracked and to a deadline.
Collaboration
Shared project workspace
The whole team in one place, working on the same version.
Section ownership
Every section owned, every owner clear.
Allocate tasks to SMEs
Have James assign the right tasks, reviews and questions to the right SMEs automatically.
SME input requests
Ask contributors the right question, in the format you need back.
Review and approval tracking
Reviews and sign-offs tracked against the deadline.
Personal workspaces
Organise your work your way, within the team's process.
Personal dashboard
Each participant has their own dashboard showing all open tasks and activities.
Compilation
Buyer file completion
Answer in the buyer's format, whatever they send.
Complex PDF form filling
Complex forms completed without retyping.
Template export
Final documents in your template, ready to submit.
Spreadsheet and table completion
Questionnaires and schedules filled cell by cell, including dropdown menus.
Page count preview
See how an answer will sit on the page before formatting.
Submission pack assembly
Every document named, ordered and ready to upload.
Portal-ready outputs
Answers formatted for pasting into portals with character limits and no formatting.
Multilingual
Cross-language search
Find the answer in any language held in your library.
Built-in translation
Answer a Dutch tender from English content.
Prioritised library search
Search your own country's library first, then the rest of the business.
Local terminology
The right terms and spelling for each market.
Regional spelling
British, American or international English applied consistently.
Evaluation
Elevated red review
Conduct a red review based on the tender instructions, scored by an objective reviewer.
Scoring evaluation
Evaluation-based response once scoring is received from the client. Automatically update answers based on client feedback.
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Explore →See James work on a real tender.
Bring a live or past tender to a demo and see how quickly you get from tender pack to first draft.
FAQ
Questions from bid team members
James can draft complete responses from your approved content, working through the tender with strategic personas trained to think like a bid writer. You keep the final word on what goes to the buyer, reviewing and refining each answer and deciding where the win themes land.
James drafts from your own knowledge library, which is held separately from the buyer's documents. That separation stops buyer content and your content being blended together, a common problem when general purpose AI tools are used on complex tenders. Every draft is built on sources your organisation has approved, and you review each answer before submission.
Yes. Workflows adapt to your team's bid process rather than imposing a fixed one, and each writer can organise their own workspace within that process. You can start with the way you work today and refine it over time, so your team does not need to change its way of working: SEQUESTO adapts to your preferred and proven process.