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The Workbench.

Six working tools, every one built with AI coding tools and our method — and none of them for sale. These are demos of what we teach BD teams to build for themselves. Run them, then learn to build your own.

The demo floor

Every bid moves through the same steps, and each step here is a working demo — built in days with AI coding tools plus the method we teach, which is the point. They do the mechanical work; they don’t make the call. A person owns every judgment, and soon each tool gets a “build this yourself” video to prove it.

To run one:your work email and a short acknowledgment (these are demos, paste only what you’re permitted to, keep the decisions human). Runs are capped per month because each one costs real inference money; sign-in arrives with accounts. The three deciding tools at the bottom need nothing at all.
01

The Shredder — frwrd.shred

working demo · run it free below

Paste Sections L, M, and C. Every “shall” comes back as one row you can defend — atomized, sourced, and flagged where the solicitation goes silent. It splits the compound requirements people miss, and it tells you when the RFP contradicts itself.

Run a free shred →

02

The Matrix — frwrd.matrix

working demo

The working compliance matrix, as the Excel table your team lives in: the customer’s own numbering kept, exact wording one obligation per row, where each answer goes, what a good response includes, and the evidence to gather — plus Owner and Status columns, blank on purpose.

See the Matrix →

03

The Plan Builder — frwrd.plan

working demo

The kickoff, produced. It takes the requirement, the scoring criteria, and what your firm actually brings, then returns a section plan detailed enough to draft from: objective, win themes, proof points with their evidence, the outline in the evaluator’s order, and the gaps you have to close first.

See the Plan Builder →

04

Preflight — frwrd.preflight

working demo

Before anyone senior spends an hour on it. Every requirement graded answered, partial, or missing, with the sentence that answers it — and a read on whether an evaluator could score what you wrote at all.

See Preflight →

05

The Evaluation Board — frwrd.eval

working demo · first evaluation free

Ten evaluator personas and an internal color team, each scoring your draft the way a real board reads — built from protest decisions and source selection procedure. The debrief, before you submit.

Meet the board →

06

Editorial — frwrd.edit

working demo

It cuts the words that perform without proving and keeps the claim. The claims register, the cross-volume contradiction sweep, the sentences an evaluator has to read twice. Nothing you promised gets dropped.

See the editorial pass →

Want one of these for your own workflow?

Start with a Build with AI session — $1,500 flat, up to five people: bring the step where your process leaks, and we build a working tool on it together — with the safeguards — so you leave with the tool and the ability to make the next one.

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Why none of this is for sale

Not directly, anyway. You don’t want ours. You want one you control, built for your needs, that you know how to update on the fly. We teach you to make it.

Your workflow is the edge

Buying tools makes sense for most shops. But if your process is your advantage — how you engage pre-opp, what your reviews demand, the promises you track — renting the median process erodes it. Teams like that should build, and now they can.

Built in a week, on purpose

Everything on this floor was built in about a week with AI coding tools and the method we teach. That speed is the demonstration: your BD team, with the right training and safeguards, can do this — and keep doing it as your workflow changes.

Tools extract, transform, and accelerate. People decide.

Every tool grades, flags, and organizes; none of them makes the bid call, sets the win themes, or submits. The final product is a person’s call, and here is why. When you build your own, that gate goes in first.

Free, and staying free

We don’t charge for what we can give everyone at once. Three deciding tools live on this page — no login, no email. If they tell you to walk away from a bid, walk away. That’s the tool doing its job.

An honest bid/no-bid read

Eligibility
Do you meet every hard requirement to even be considered?
Set-aside, NAICS / size standard, certifications, clearances, registrations.
Eligibility
Is the work squarely in what you actually do?
The core of the requirement, not an adjacent stretch you'd have to learn on the job.
Past performance
Can you cite relevant, recent past performance at this size and scope?
Work an evaluator will accept as proof you've done this before.
Customer intel
Did you know this was coming before the solicitation dropped?
Relationships, shaping, a sources-sought response — not finding it cold on SAM.
Competitive position
Is there an incumbent, and how is the RFP written?
Requirements wired to one vendor's strengths are a signal the race is decided.
Competitive position
Do you have a real discriminator — a reason they'd pick you?
Something specific and provable, not 'quality and commitment.'
Capacity
Can you produce a compliant, competitive response by the deadline?
The people, the hours, and the reviews — without torching the rest of the business.
Economics
If you won, is the contract worth what it costs to chase and deliver?
B&P to pursue, margin at the likely price, and the strategic value of the logo.
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Live opportunity radar — grants.gov

    Sometimes the answer isn't us

    Are you deciding what AI should change in how you pursue and propose?

    Do you expect to bid more than once in the next year?

    Do you already have a proposal team in-house?

    Is your bidding steady and year-round (vs. in bursts)?

    Is this a billion-dollar must-win with a premium budget?

    From running demos to building your own

    Start with one step

    A Build with AI session takes the step where your process leaks and turns it into a working tool, together, in about two hours. You keep the tool and the recording. Most teams find the second tool takes an afternoon.

    Then the whole team

    Build challenges on your own clock, ground-up cohorts, and courses that start from the free videos of each demo here. The destination is a team that builds what it needs, adapts it, and shares it — with the review gates that keep judgment human.

    What we never automate:the bid decision, the win themes, the price, and anything that reaches a customer without a person’s name on it. Every tool we teach has that gate built in.

    Start with the free ones.

    A free shred every month and a free first evaluation — enough to know whether the bench earns a place in your next pursuit before a dollar moves.