Bad Bids Cost More Than You Think
The warning signs were in the solicitation - a certification you don't hold, an insurance threshold you don't meet, past performance that doesn't match the scope. Verdict finds them before you commit a proposal team to a pursuit you were never going to win.
RFP ANALYSIS • PRIME, SUB OR PASS • OPPORTUNITY BRIEFING • DELIVERABLES LIST • RISKS TO PRICE
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Build Your Company Profile
Verdict builds your company profile from the documents you already have.
How Verdict Works
From your own documents to a recommendation you can take into a bid review.
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Drop In the Solicitation
Zip folders, PDF, DOCX, Excel — however it lands. Verdict reads every page and gets to work immediately.
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See What Decides It
The requirements that actually decide this pursuit, with the conditions behind the call.
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See the Evidence
An opportunity briefing and the deliverables list, ready to put in front of leadership.
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Decide, and Keep the Receipts
Bid as prime, team as a sub, or pass. Every decision stays on record, so you can show your work months later.
Why you can take this into a bid review
Three properties most AI tools in this category don't have.
Traced to the source
The requirements behind the call are traced back to the solicitation, so you can check them against the source yourself.
Double-checked before you see it
Verdict checks each judgment a second time before showing it to you. If the two checks don’t agree, it tells you your documents don’t settle the question, and what would.
Run history
Every run is preserved as generated, citing the solicitation by document and page. Months later, you can still show why.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Verdict recommend whether we should pursue an RFP?
Verdict reads the solicitation against your company documents and returns a clear recommendation: bid as prime, team as a sub, or pass, with the conditions that decide it. It names the requirements that actually decide the pursuit and shows what your documents do or don't demonstrate against each one. When the call is close, Verdict names the top reasons and what would change it.
Can Verdict help us identify specific compliance or qualification gaps?
Yes. Verdict names the requirements your documents don't currently support — a missing certification, an insurance threshold, an absent past-performance record — and traces each one back to the solicitation. It also tells you what to fix before you submit, including claims in your own materials that don't hold up. Where no path to satisfying a requirement is evident, Verdict says so plainly rather than presenting a gap as manageable.
What does a Verdict report actually contain?
An opportunity briefing on what the buyer is buying, how they will evaluate, and the key dates. The deliverables list — every deliverable the proposal must include, in one list. The requirements that decide the pursuit. Questions to send the buyer before the Q&A deadline, and the risks to price into the bid, each with a way to handle it. You can download the full report as a PDF.
How does the scope summary improve our bidding workflow?
Solicitation packages are dense and repetitive. Every Verdict run summarizes what the solicitation actually asks for — requirements, contract size, and submission timelines — drawn from the source documents, so your team can understand the scope without reading the package end to end. Word export is coming.
What can we upload, and does Verdict cover state and local solicitations?
Upload the full solicitation and your own company documents:
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PDF: .pdf. Scanned or image-only pages are read by OCR.
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Word: .docx, .doc (older Word) and .rtf.
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Excel: .xlsx, .xlsm (with macros) and .xls (older Excel).
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PowerPoint: .pptx and .ppt.
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Text: .txt, .csv, .md and .markdown.
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Photos and scans: .jpg/.jpeg, .png, .tif/.tiff and .heic/.heif (iPhone photos), all read by OCR.
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Email: .msg (Outlook) and .eml.
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Web pages: .html and .htm.
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Zip files: for RFP uploads, Verdict opens the zip and keeps every file inside it that’s on this list. A zip is a container, not a file type in its own right.
Scanned pages and images are read with text recognition, which can misread poor copies. Verdict covers federal, state and local solicitations.
Is our company data secure?
Your documents are stored on Google Cloud infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest, and isolated per customer. Data is only stored inside the United States. Access is 2 factor authenticated. Your documents and reports are not accessible to Verdict support unless you grant access. Your documents are never used to train AI models.
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