Most proposals reuse 80% of the same content — company info, approach, bios, references, past work — yet teams rebuild from a blank page every time. Taliferro built TODD to read the RFP, pull what's already been written, and hand back a draft instead of a cursor blinking on an empty document. The writing was never the bottleneck. The rebuilding was.
Co-Founder Taliferro
If your process for responding to RFPs starts with a blank document, you're already wasting time.
When the deeper issue is stalled execution, system design that removes drag shows how Taliferro turns execution work into working execution, and the execution-first operating model keeps the work tied to outcomes instead of activity.
Most proposals reuse 80% of the same content—company info, approach, bios, references, past work. But instead of reusing, most teams rebuild. From scratch. Every time. That's hours lost on formatting, copying, and checking version history.
That's not strategy. That's busywork.
When I talk to teams that struggle with RFPs, it's not because they lack expertise. It's because they lack a system. Everyone scrambles to find the last good proposal. No one remembers which version had the strongest messaging. By the time the draft is done, half the team is burned out and the deadline is too close to polish it.
I wanted TODD to read the RFP like a person would—pull out the key pieces, connect them to past proposals, and suggest a draft.
See how TODD drafts outreach and follow-ups from structured templates to keep proposals and communication consistent.
Now it does exactly that:
No guessing. No digging. Just a solid draft ready to refine.
Before TODD, I spent 6–10 hours on every proposal. Most of that wasn't writing—it was hunting, formatting, stitching. Now, I spend 1–2 hours reviewing, editing, and tailoring. That's it.
And I'm more consistent. My responses don't miss key points. My tone stays aligned. And I never scramble at the last minute.
Every time I finalize a proposal, TODD learns from it. So the next draft is even tighter. It's not just automation—it's accumulation. Smarter each time.
If you're still writing from scratch, you're spending too much time on what's already been written.
TODD flips the process. It gives you a strong draft out the gate—so you can focus on winning, not formatting.
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