Stepscale offers a business development platform tailored for architecture, engineering, and construction firms to automate the end‑to‑end RFP process. It continuously sources relevant public and private procurement opportunities, scores them for fit, and generates submission‑ready proposals, reducing the hundreds of hours typically spent on bid research, evaluation, and drafting.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Architecture, engineering, and construction firms spend over 100 hours each month manually searching, evaluating, and preparing responses to public RFPs and private pursuit opportunities. This effort consumes senior staff time that could be dedicated to billable project work and often leads to missed or poorly prepared bids.
Solution
Stepscale provides an AEC‑focused business development platform that automates the end‑to‑end bid workflow. The system continuously crawls major procurement portals and scores each opportunity against the firm’s capabilities, surfacing only the most promising leads. Integrated go/no‑go scorecards let teams assess fit, scope risk, and alignment with past projects before committing resources. For selected opportunities, Stepscale generates a draft proposal populated with relevant project data, schedules, and Gantt charts, automatically formatted to the firm’s template and exportable as Word or PDF. This reduces manual effort, frees senior staff for revenue‑generating activities, and improves win rates on bids and contracts.
Target Audience
Primary users are business development managers, principals, and senior staff at architecture, engineering, and construction firms that pursue public procurement and private project opportunities.
Features
- Daily automated sourcing of RFPs from MERX, BC Bid, CanadaBuys, and provincial systems with firm‑specific fit scoring
- Competitive intelligence module that tracks recent wins and bid amounts in target categories
- Customizable go/no‑go scorecards for requirement fit, scope risk, and past project alignment
- AI‑driven proposal drafting that pulls project details, schedules, and Gantt charts into a pre‑configured template
- One‑click export to Word or PDF with auto‑formatting and support for addenda updates