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Craft

Discriminator vs. feature: which one moves the score

Two real RFP sections, same underlying win theme, different framings. Which framing evaluators picked, and the rule I extracted from comparing them.

Sarah Smith
Engineering

The async drafting worker pool, explained

How 40 concurrent draft sections get written without saturating the LLM budget or crashing the rate limiter. The worker pool, the budget enforcer, and the retry ladder.

The PursuitAgent engineering team
Team & Workflow

Thanksgiving week: how we staff three active pursuits

Our ten-minute Monday huddle that keeps the short week from collapsing. Three active pursuits, three owners, one rule about Wednesday at noon.

Bo Bergstrom
RFP Mechanics Feature

An anonymized winning proposal, torn down

A public-sector award with public artifacts. What won, what the scoring rubric rewarded, and three things a typical proposal team would have gotten wrong.

The PursuitAgent research team
Engineering

In preview: the post-mortem pipeline at submit close

The moment a proposal marks won or lost, PursuitAgent opens a structured post-mortem against the captured pair. In preview while the post-mortem template, reflection, and write-back loop mature toward general availability.

PursuitAgent
RFP Mechanics

The proposal post-mortem template: preview

A Wednesday teaser for next week's pillar. The fields that matter in a post-mortem template, and the one section most teams skip.

Sarah Smith
Procurement

Multi-tenant DDQ templates across customer accounts

How one SOC 2 answer shape generalizes across many customer tenants without leaking tenant-specific facts. The separation between template structure and tenant content, explained.

The PursuitAgent engineering team
RFP Mechanics

Past-performance library hygiene for year-end

Three questions that decide whether a past-performance entry stays in the library, gets rewritten, or gets retired. A December sweep that pays off in the Q1 pursuit wave.

Sarah Smith
Engineering

Tuning pgvector HNSW for proposal workloads

M, ef_construction, ef_search — the three knobs that decide retrieval latency and recall in a pgvector HNSW index. What we chose for PursuitAgent and why.

The PursuitAgent engineering team
Team & Workflow

The rolling Q4 capacity plan for proposal teams

A five-week look-ahead that reallocates the proposal team twice. Why a static quarterly plan breaks in Q4, and what a rolling version does instead.

PursuitAgent
Research

Reviews watch: what G2 and Capterra said in November

The monthly aggregation of public reviews for proposal-management and RFP-automation tools. Q4 competitor deltas, new reviewers, and what customers are praising and complaining about this month.

The PursuitAgent research team
Procurement

The DDQ wave: what the inbox looks like this week

Mid-November volume snapshot across our own fleet. Volume, topic distribution, and the two categories growing fastest this week compared to the baseline.

PursuitAgent

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