About Paavya
Paavya is a decision intelligence system for RFP responses. It exists to answer one question well and repeatedly: should we respond, and with what?
The problem we started with
Teams answer everything that lands, because declining feels like leaving money on the table. Then the same team runs out of hours on the one pursuit that mattered.
Nobody was short of writing tools. They were short of a way to decide — and a way to learn from the result once it arrived.
What everyone optimises
Speed of drafting. A race that is already over, and worth less every year.
What actually moves revenue
Choosing the right pursuits, and knowing which of your answers have ever scored.
What nobody keeps
The outcome. Debriefs get read once and filed, and the next bid starts blind.
Four positions that decide what we build and what we refuse to build.
01
A recommendation must show its reasoning.
A score with no explanation cannot be argued with, which makes it useless in a review. Every number we produce carries the case for and against.
02
Evidence beats fluency.
Every answer cites the document it came from. Where the evidence is missing, we say so rather than write something plausible.
03
A good system tells you not to bid.
The cheapest win available to most teams is the pursuit they decline early. We would rather be useful than encouraging.
04
Your record is yours.
Your proposals are not training data for anyone else's model, and your library exports whenever you want it.
Where it goes
Not through contracts. Through the record — every outcome logged makes the next recommendation more specific to your firm, until the reasoning reads like your own bid desk at its best.
Institutional memory
Every answer, edit, win and loss becomes retrievable knowledge instead of a folder nobody opens.
Judgment, recorded
Bid and no-bid decisions with written reasoning, so the review has something to point at.
Calibration, not benchmarks
Scoring tuned against your own outcomes rather than an industry average that describes nobody.
A note from the founder
Proposal season always looked the same. A room of capable people reformatting last year's answers, chasing the same subject-matter expert for a paragraph she had already written twice, and finding out three weeks after submission that the evaluators had never considered us competitive in the first place.
The painful part was never the writing. It was that all the intelligence was already in the building — in the wins, the losses, the debriefs, the answers that had scored well before — and none of it was available at the moment a decision had to be made.
So we built Paavya to hold that record and use it. It reads the solicitation, scores the fit against what your firm has actually done, drafts from evidence you can point to, and then — the part I care about most — reconciles its own prediction against the real outcome and corrects itself.
I would rather Paavya tell you honestly that a pursuit is not worth your team's month than help you write a beautiful losing proposal faster. That is the whole product philosophy, and it is why we measure ourselves on work won rather than hours saved.
If RFPs decide your revenue, I would like Paavya to be the reason your next quarter looks different. Bring us a bid you already lost — that is the fairest test there is.
Trey Banks
Trey Banks · CEO & Founder, Paavya
Seven days, full product. Compare the reasoning against the debrief you already have.