Agentic Proposal Development The AI Proposal Writer That Plans and Builds Your Whole Bid Package

The AI agent starts by reading the full solicitation and creating planning files: requirements extraction, compliance matrix, evaluation factor mapping, win strategy, and gap analysis. Then it writes structured proposal volumes, with sections organized around evaluation factors and subfactors, using those planning files as its guide. Every section traces back to specific requirements. If you follow a Shipley-style or other capture methodology, you can provide your own instructions and the agent will adapt to your process.

Planning before writing. The agent reads every page of the solicitation — Sections A through M — and extracts every requirement, evaluation criterion, and compliance clause into structured planning files before drafting anything. The compliance matrix becomes the checklist for the entire proposal. For past performance, the agent searches your actual award history and cites real contracts with agencies, amounts, and dates — it never fabricates experience. Every claim in the proposal is grounded in solicitation language or your documented company data.

The agent reads Section L submission instructions and factors word counts, page limits, and formatting constraints into the proposal outline during the planning phase. When writing volumes, it respects those limits and structures content accordingly. If limits are tight, it prioritizes the highest-weighted evaluation factors.

The compliance matrix maps every requirement from the solicitation to the specific proposal section that addresses it — requirement, source reference, proposal section, and status. CLEATUS generates it during the planning phase before writing begins, then uses it as a checklist throughout the proposal. Every section is written to address its mapped requirements. You can review it yourself to verify full coverage before submission.

Every proposal opens with a Proposal Plan: a step-by-step checklist built from your specific solicitation, from "Review the solicitation" through "Format and assemble." Clicking a step generates ready-to-send prompts for that stage, and "Draft all" runs a step's prompts in sequence. Steps check themselves off as documents draft, forms fill, and compliance verifies, so you always know exactly where the proposal stands and what comes next.

CLEATUS handles it. New amendments flow into the Contract Documents tab of your proposal workspace automatically, exactly as they arrived. The agent then reads the amendment, works out what changed (requirements, forms, page limits, deadlines, evaluation criteria), reopens exactly the Proposal Plan steps the change invalidates, and reports what changed and why. Nothing is deleted: completed work stays in place, and only the affected steps move back to in progress so you can bring them in line with the amendment.