The system watches your RFP sources, flags every fit, and turns proposal drafting from a multi-week scramble into a few focused days.
A San Francisco urban planning firm cut proposal time from 2 to 4 weeks to 2 to 4 days, running a weekly RFP pipeline across six sources.
Debra McClaughry builds AI systems for proposal-driven firms. A former fractional COO with 35 years of operations experience in construction and professional services, she works with 2 to 30 person firms in urban planning, civil engineering, environmental consulting, architecture, and construction contracting to put AI into their proposal, RFP, and compliance workflows. Oklahoma based, nationwide via Zoom.
Most principals know AI could help with proposals and RFPs. What they do not have is time to set it up, a clear first move, or confidence it will hold up under client and compliance scrutiny. That gap is not a technology problem. It is an implementation problem.
AI should make proposal work faster and more consistent. For proposal-driven firms, the pipeline, the drafting, and the compliance documents are where the most principal time comes back.
A 30-minute Zoom session that maps the highest-value AI opportunities in your proposal, RFP, and compliance work, ranked by time saved and revenue protected. You leave with a prioritized list and a clear first move.
$500, credited in full toward any engagement
How It WorksEvery week I scan six procurement sources matched to your practice areas and geography and deliver one curated, fit-flagged report. When the bottleneck moves from finding work to responding fast enough, the Proposal Pipeline System adds templates, automated documents, and team training.
Start: $2,000/month, no setup fee
Full system: $7,500 setup plus $2,500/month
Every major workflow rebuilt over four to six weeks across proposals, compliance documents, client deliverables, and business development. Your team is trained on each system as it ships, with a custom prompt library built for your work.
$15,000 flat
How It WorksDebra McClaughry is not a tech consultant. She is an operations professional with 35 years of experience running business systems, managing teams, and solving the kind of problems that show up in service businesses every day. She started using AI from the operator's seat, not the developer's seat, and she builds from there.