Stop burning hours on BD work. Win more RFPs, your way.
Your team shouldn't spend 20–40 hours hunting, reading, and assembling each proposal.
Stepscale finds the right opportunities, spots deal-breakers fast, and drafts
from your real projects—so you can focus on winning strategy and billable work.
TRUSTED BY STRATEGIC AEC FIRMS
“From identifying and evaluating RFP opportunities to drafting responses using our actual past project experience, Stepscale has quickly become our core BD platform that our team relies on every day.”
Bruce Johnston
Principal, Access Engineering
“We looked at the other platforms in this space and Stepscale was the only one built for how AEC firms actually work. The team behind it understands our world, the platform delivers, and we trust them with how we win RFP business.”
Stephen Boyd
Principal, Arc Studio
The problem
Your principals are spending 20–40 hours per proposal on work that should take days, not weeks.
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Hunting across fragmented portals
MERX, BC Bid, CanadaBuys checked manually. Noisy alerts. Missed opportunities.
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Reading dense RFP requirements
Parsing hundreds of pages to spot deal-breakers and hidden compliance demands.
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Digging for past projects & experience
Firm memory lives across drives, emails, and old proposals. No central index.
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Drafting & re-drafting responses
Writing approach, qualifications, and fee details from scratch every submission.
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Final compliance review & checking
Verifying every requirement addressed. Flagging gaps and addendums at the last minute.
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Non-billable principal hours
Senior staff pulled away from client work. BD becomes after-hours and weekends.
“We're able to spend more time on the strategic positioning that differentiates us and bring the client value, instead of hunting for old projects and typing the same qualification sections.”
The Solution
Stepscale Does What Generic AI Tools Can't.
Built specifically for AEC public procurement and private pursuit business development.
Source
Source
Find relevant RFPs scored against your firm's fit daily.
- Buyer intel and award amounts for similar projects
- Research for competitor recent wins and bid amounts in your category
- Fit scoring so your pipeline stays full of winnable bids
Evaluate
Evaluate
Know whether to bid before you spend a week on it.
- Customizable go/no-go scorecards per opportunity
- Requirement fit, scope risk, and past project alignment
- Shared evaluations for faster partner-level decisions
Research
Research
Pull the intel your team usually spends days chasing.
- Competitor recent wins, bid amounts, and category intel
- Sub-consultant recommendations and bid leveling
- Estimating and quoting grounded in past project data
Respond
Respond
Create a full draft based on your projects and standards.
- Customizable proposal draft with schedule and Gantt chart
- Auto-formatted into your company template
- Download as Word or PDF, add addendums and update quickly
Review
Review
Catch what the evaluator will catch before you hit send.
- Final review against the RFP and all addendums
- Flags missing sections, weak answers, and compliance gaps
- Add debriefs post-award to train Stepscale over time
From the field
Teams that upgraded to Stepscale.
“Stepscale has changed how our studio finds and approaches RFPs. We’re able to spend more time on the strategic positioning that differentiates us and bring the client value.”
Michael Dub
Dub Architects
“We brought Stepscale in to give our business a real edge and it delivered. Our past project knowledge is instantly accessible, and our team is focused on high-value work instead of searching from scratch.”
Sean Martin
Sean.ca
“I use Stepscale daily and nothing else does what it does. Their search, review, and drafting tools are the best we’ve used. We’re turning around work faster, with better content.”
Chris Spagnolo
Garnet Group
Product
The All-in-One Business Development Platform
Opportunities, Responses, Assistant, and Document Library work together to win you more business.
Customers
For Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Firms
AEC teams use Stepscale to manage and grow their RFP/RFQ business pipeline.
Where to from here
Let’s run your next RFP live.
Share a recent opportunity, see every step from search to first draft using your past projects.
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30-min tailored demo
With a real, recent opportunity.
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Hands-on onboarding
Your firm, your projects, your RFPs.
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Immediate ROI
Measurable hours saved within 30 days.