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AI Proposal Studio for Manufacturing. RFP response software for manufacturers' engineered projects

AI Proposal Studio is RFP response software for manufacturers that reads a buyer's request and every document attached, page by page, into a register of requirements. It asks three questions at most, writes the answer from your Knowledge and blocks, prices every line by code from your rate card and inventory, and a person approves and sends.

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RFP response software for manufacturers: each requirement marked must, want or nice, with its cover, real Zanus AI screen

Requirements

Each requirement of the request gets its own row, marked must, want or nice, with how the proposal covers it; an open must is yours.

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You“Engineering proposals above the manager's limit go to an administrator for approval.”

Lisa“Engineering proposals above the manager's threshold now wait for an administrator, with a reminder after one day. Apply?”

You talk. Lisa sets it up. Applied only on your yes.

How Manufacturing use it

1

A utility's 20-page request for a pump skid is read in full; each requirement lands in the register as must, want or nice.

2

A tender asks for a delivery date on a holiday; the tender response software keeps its checks red until the date moves to a business day.

3

A request arrives from a competitor's domain; nothing is read or sent until a person starts the reading or declines.

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What’s included

  • Proposals: every request on its eight steps, with the one next thing to do
  • New proposal: from your own words or a mail thread, in five steps on one page
  • A proposal open: the request, the register, the questions, the blocks, the price and the approval
  • Sent & tracking: opens, last activity, validity, state and the next step
  • Blocks & pictures: the blocks a proposal is made of, and pictures from your Images library
  • Reports: requested, sent, opened, won, lost, why we lose and what the checker caught
  • The customer’s page: accept with his options, ask a question, decline, download the PDF
  • Proposal Studio settings: who writes, who asks, who approves, the length, the prices and the doors

The RFP

AI RFP response software that keeps the buyer's words apart

Read page by page

The request and every attachment, scans included, become a register of what the buyer asked for, each line with its page and its priority.

Three questions at most

In an RFQ response for engineered projects, when something is missing, such as the duty point or the site voltage, the AI writes three questions at most, sent alone or by a person.

Priced by code

Deliveries with fixed prices, recurring service lines, options and milestone payments, all summed from your own lines, with cost and margin kept off the buyer's copy.

Every version kept

Each change makes a new version that needs a new approval; Compare shows two versions side by side for the sales engineer.

Questions & answers

AI Proposal Studio for Manufacturing: questions & answers

Can AI answer a manufacturing RFP point by point?

Yes. In the RFP answer mode each requirement is read into the register with its code, its words, the page it came from and its priority, then covered as kept, option, allowance, not offered or open. Your sales engineer settles any must-have still open or not offered before anyone approves.

Does the AI invent prices or lead times?

No. Every figure is a sum the software makes from your rate card and your inventory. With no priced line the proposal carries no price table and says so, and twenty checks, dates on business days among them, run before anyone approves.

Who sends the proposal?

Only a person, once it is approved. Your sales manager signs off proposals under the amount you chose, larger ones go to an administrator, and the AI itself sends nothing but the receipt and, where the department allows, its questions.

When does a request go here instead of AI Quoting?

A catalog order goes to AI Quoting. A project that needs a written solution, an engineered skid, a custom line or a multi-site service contract, comes to this proposal software for manufacturers, and a won proposal becomes a priced quote on your orders pipeline.

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Where next?

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Winner at CES 2026, ISE 2026 and TMCnet Enterprise AI Product of the Year.

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Awards & trade shows ›
TMCnet Enterprise AI Product of the Year 2026
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