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Win the right opportunities, with less senior time.
Stepscale finds relevant opportunities, helps you decide which to pursue, assembles the evidence, and drafts proposals you can trust.
The pursuit today
How architects & prime consultants win business.
Across firms, chasing new opportunities looks the same, and most of it is still manual.
Source
Scan Biddingo, MERX, Ariba, and municipal sites, then filter noisy alerts by hand.
Qualify
Weigh workload, experience, geography, liability, and timelines, mostly on intuition.
Assemble
Line up subconsultants, then dig through old folders for projects, résumés, and boilerplate.
Produce and submit
Draft, check claims and compliance by hand, lay it out, and submit through the portal.
Afterward, little gets tracked: who won, at what fee, against whom, or what to reuse next time.
Where the time goes
The hard part is everything around the writing.
Opportunities buried in noise
Alerts are noisy and scattered across Biddingo, MERX, Ariba, and municipal sites. Keyword filters miss your real fit.
Go/no-go in people’s heads
Workload, experience, geography, liability, timelines, and competition, all judged from memory. A $1M project can demand $5M in indemnity.
Drafting burns senior time
The principals running the firm are the ones writing proposals. Generic tools save typing, not judgment.
AI you cannot trust
It misattributes projects, repeats itself, and promises things you cannot deliver. Every line needs checking.
Evidence is scattered
Past proposals, résumés, and drawings live across Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, and people’s heads.
The team is its own project
Finding subconsultants, chasing credentials, and leveling responses. Consultant teams are heavily scored.
How Stepscale helps
Not just faster proposals. The whole pursuit.
From the first opportunity to the intelligence you reuse on the next.
Find the right opportunities
One ranked feed from sources like Biddingo, MERX, Ariba, and municipal sites, matched to your services and past projects.
Decide with evidence
Fit, experience, geography, liability, timelines, and competition in one view. Go/no-go becomes repeatable.
Assemble the evidence fast
Past proposals, sheets, résumés, and drawings, searchable. References are a search, not a hunt.
Draft in your voice
Grounded in projects you have delivered, cited to the source, with no commitments you cannot keep.
Review before you submit
Checked against every mandatory requirement, with repetition and overpromises flagged.
Learn from every opportunity
Who wins with each buyer, how crowded it is, and who beat you. The next call gets sharper.
From a firm like yours
Built into how Arc Studio wins.
“Stepscale has meaningfully elevated our operations for proposal drafting and analysis of financial and legal, enabling our team to work more efficiently without sacrificing depth or quality.”
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