What's in your headon paper faster.Get to a final draft
50% quicker.
Dottie is a closed loop system.
Your projects, your people, your language.
How Dottie helps
Dottie is built around the proposal writing workflow.
Upload and dissect an RFP
Upload the tender pack and let Dottie turn it into a practical bid brief.
- Project summary
- Client research
- RFP dissection
- RFP interrogation
Strategy and positioning
Shape the story before you write, then pull the right evidence from your firm.
- Strategy and positioning
- Relevant previous experience
Draft the proposal
Create draft proposal sections from your firm's knowledge and experience.
- Draft proposal sections
- Writing guides
- Staff bios
Review the proposal
Review the draft against the RFP so it is clearer, stronger and aligned with what the client asked for.
- Review your draft against the RFP
- Proposal consistency check
Dottie vs ChatGPT
We ran three AI workflows across multiple firms, each producing a draft proposal section.
The chart shows the average similarity of these drafts to real submitted proposal sections.
The higher the score, the less editing between AI draft and final.
Average benchmark scores: RFP plus simple prompt 34 percent, RFP plus past proposal plus simple prompt 35 percent, and Dottie 62 percent. The real submitted proposal section is 100 percent.
Method
We tested three AI drafting approaches against real proposal sections previously submitted by each organisation.
- A simple prompt and the tender documents. The most basic AI drafting workflow.
- The same simple prompt and tender documents, plus one example of how the organisation has responded to similar work before. More context, but no guidance on how to use it.
- Dottie, which uses a broader organisational knowledge bank combined with sophisticated prompts. This is designed to produce a draft that is closer to how the organisation actually writes.
Each output was scored against the real human-written section that was actually submitted. The score measures two things:
- Semantic similarity: whether the draft is talking about the same ideas as the real proposal.
- Structural similarity: whether the draft has the same shape, depth and length as the real proposal.
We weight structure slightly more heavily, because a draft that's the right length and format is faster to edit into something usable.
The benchmark isn't trying to prove AI can replace a proposal writer. It can't. It's measuring how much editing effort each approach is likely to leave behind.
What firms usually ask.
Will Dottie replace our firm's voice?
No. Dottie drafts from your own projects, people, and past responses, so the writing sounds like your firm. You stay in control of every word - it just gives your team a stronger starting point.
What happens to our data?
Your firm knowledge is used to help you write your proposals and nothing else. We never train shared models on your material, and your work is not exposed to other firms.
Is Dottie a fit for a firm our size?
Dottie is built for small and medium architecture, design, and engineering firms. The current plan has no per-seat fees and unlimited proposals. Larger teams with higher throughput can get in touch and we'll work something out.
How long does it take to get started?
We work with you directly to shape your existing firm knowledge into material Dottie can use. Most firms are drafting against real tenders shortly after onboarding - there's no long setup project.