Eleven versions of one RFP
One per vendor, each retyped, each one somehow missing the question you actually needed answered. Then the venue asks for it again in their own format.
And if you have planned a few
One per vendor, each retyped, each one somehow missing the question you actually needed answered. Then the venue asks for it again in their own format.
One priced per person, one per day, one with the service charge in a footnote and the room block on page four. So you rebuild all of them in the same spreadsheet you rebuilt last time.
Four of nine have come back. You are the reason the other five eventually will, and that is a fortnight of your month spent being a reminder.
Calm to your Chaos
Describe the event once. Categories, criteria and a drafted RFP per vendor are ready the same afternoon — you read them and press send.
Sourced live against maps and the open web, with the place, the rating and the address it actually found. Not the five venues already in your contacts.
Every reply is read, PDFs included — packages, per-person rates, service charge, tax — and laid out side by side with the line each figure came from.
See it run
How it works
A sentence, or answer a few questions instead.
Venue, F&B, AV, transport — with criteria for each.
Searched live, with the place and rating it found.
Sent in your organisation's name, not ours.
Packages, per-person rates, service charge, tax.
Side by side, and the budget adds itself up.
Why it exists
This is not a general-purpose tool that discovered events. It was built by people who have run them, and it shows in the things it does not need explaining to it.
From the people who run events
I briefed it on a Monday and had nine venues shortlisted with RFPs drafted before lunch. That used to be my whole week.
It caught a service charge buried on page four of a quotation. I had already missed it twice reading the same PDF.
The comparison table is the bit I did not know I needed. Three venues, same lines, no spreadsheet.
Nothing went out without me reading it first, which is the only reason I trusted it with client-facing mail.
Sourcing used to mean the five venues already in my contacts. Now it means the right one.
Every figure shows the line it came from. My finance team stopped asking me to justify the budget line by line.
It’s not about ideas.Scott Belsky
It’s about making ideas happen.