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BidHawk AI: AI-Powered Proposal Evaluation for Customer Success

We are passionate about customer success!

"Never sell a PowerPoint when you can actually show the customer it works..."

- President, Simplified Logic, Inc.

We build BidHawk AI to provide...
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    Ease of Use
    If my mother can't use it...
    it is not ready.
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    Low Cost
    Pay for what you need...
    when you need it.
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    Useful Results
    Enable faster reviews
    and better decisions

Experience has been a great teacher...

“I happen to believe that all innovation comes, not from market research or carefully crafted focus groups, but from pissed-off people.”
- Tom Peters, Re-Imagine!
This quote was a passive mention by Tom Peters. This was not promoted as a key observation, idea, or point to reflect on - you could have easily missed it while reading.

We have been on both sides of the coin... BUYER and SELLER. Those experiences motivated the creation of BidHawk AI. Specifically, to help both BUYERS and SELLERS navigate and review proposals faster and make better decisions regarding their engagements.
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Inconsistent Perspectives
Team evaluations were often not inline with requirements.

Diverse opinions and feedback were causing problems.

Bad decisions were happening.
High Pressure Reviews
Proposal reviews cycles were never predictable. Reviewers were often voluntold to support - regardless of other work.

Team reviews felt a fire-drill vs a well structured activity.

Things were not working

Frustrations with the Status Quo

We had been on both sides of the table:

Our frustrations increased every engagement.
The sources of our pain were fundamental:
  • Business Development, and
  • Procurement / Acquisition
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Our Pivotal Moment
Our pain was obvious. We needed to accelerate and justify reviews, engagements, and make faster decisions.

It was time to build!
Distractions vs Benefits
We already had internal and vendor collaboration tools that were working. (Google, etc.)

New platforms meant new processes - duplicating efforts.

We couldn't buy productivity.

No Real Solutions Existed

Bespoke Platforms were adding to our problems:
Pre-defined processes and workflows produced dashboards proclaiming the platform victories - not ours.
  • High expense for infrequent needs
  • Existing processes needed improvement - not replacement
  • Integration and security headaches
  • Initial excitement quickly became disappointment
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Prioritize Ease of Use
We built BidHawk AI so that our own mothers could login and get results in less than 5-minutes.

No joke, that was our CEO's objective for BidHawk AI.
Support Infrequent Use
No one lives in a purpose-built platform on a daily basis.

Established processes don't need re-imagined or altered, they just need to work better.

Do one (1) thing well!

We built a Tool... everyone needs.

BidHawk AI solves the core problems by delivering:
  • Simple Drag-and-Drop User Experience (UX)
  • Consistent AI Digital Subject Matter Expert (SME)
  • Executive Summarizations - backed with details
  • Costs inline with usage - no monthly overheads
  • Secure & Responsible AI benefits
  • No BS writing/editing/collaboration gimmicks
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Overwhelmed Purchasing Officer
Motivation

Buyer Overload

As a buyer, we knew that every Request for Information, Proposal, or Quote (RFI, RFP, RFQ) required a LOT of work by everyone involved.

Large organizations require proper due diligence to ensure decisions are complaint with cost, schedule, and performance expectations.

Internal teams struggle to evaluate vendor solicitation responses.

Enterprise systems were all promise and no delivery.

We needed to accelerate reviews ... and engage with confidence.
Motivation

Missed Opportunities

Our business development team was focused on growth and capture - and every customer has special needs/expectations.

Mistakes were being made - regularly.

Templated responses, over marketing, and glossing over customer specific requirements rarely won business.

We needed a solution to help us identify what was right and wrong before we submitted to our customers.
Procurement Team looking at Bad News about their Proposal Reviews
Internal conflict over vendor proposals and reviews
Motivation

Rearview Mirrors

Customer decisions not to use your company are the worst! #ugh

Everyone starts asking questions, pointing fingers, and making excuses.
  • What did we do wrong?
  • What was missed or misunderstood?
  • What did our customer not see?
Effective post-mortems are a critical exercise that are rarely done.
Why? They take a lot of time... and everyone is focused on the next thing.

Early reviewers pointed out they need to do this... and makes that possible!
In Closing...
We built BidHawk AI to help others navigate the messy-middle frustrations we ourselves experienced as buyers and sellers.

BidHawk AI combines real-world perspectives and experiences with the latest AI models to help our customers quickly align, confirm, and deliver real value.

We sincerely hope you agree! 👍