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Inventive AI automates RFPs, security questionnaires and revenue workflows for enterprise sales and proposal teams.

category

AI RFP response automation

market profile

  • text: Enterprise sales depend on finding and validating knowledge distributed across the business.
  • text: RFP, security and due diligence responses require coordination among proposal teams and subject matter experts.

personas

  • title: Proposal or bid manager
    pains:
    • Deadlines compress time to assemble and review accurate responses.
    • Answer libraries become stale and fragmented.
  • title: Sales engineering leader
    pains:
    • Repeated questionnaires divert technical staff from live deals.
    • Answers must reflect current product capabilities and buyer context.
  • title: Security and compliance lead
    pains:
    • Security questionnaires compete with core security work.
    • Unsupported or outdated answers create trust and compliance risks.

icp

  • text: Enterprise sellers with recurring RFP, RFI, security questionnaire or DDQ volume and a distributed knowledge base.
  • text: Technology, financial services, healthcare and professional services firms with cross-functional proposal workflows.

message pillars

  • text: Ground answers in approved source material and flag gaps.
  • text: Reduce time from intake to first draft.
  • text: Unify prior submissions and knowledge from existing repositories.
  • text: Involve specialists in reviewing generated drafts.

objections

  • objection: AI may fabricate compliance answers.
    response: Pilot with approved sources and review cited answers and flagged gaps against a real questionnaire.
  • objection: Our knowledge lives in multiple systems.
    response: Test the knowledge hub against existing SharePoint and Drive content before migration.
  • objection: We need control over sensitive information.
    response: Review SOC 2, data isolation and permissions with security stakeholders.

competitors

  • name: Responsive
    why: Established RFP response management platform competing for proposal teams.
  • name: Arphie
    why: AI-based RFP response automation.
  • name: 1up
    why: AI-powered questionnaire and RFP response alternative.

influencers

  • name: Dhiren Bhatia
    url: https://www.inventive.ai/about
    why: Co-founder and CEO with enterprise software background.

keywords

  • AI RFP response software
  • security questionnaire automation
  • proposal management software
  • RFP knowledge base
  • DDQ automation
  • RFI response software

voice

  • Enterprise-oriented
  • Confident and outcome-led
  • Practical

signals

  • text: Hiring proposal managers or scaling enterprise deal volume with frequent RFPs.
  • text: Security teams spending repeated effort on customer questionnaires.

stack

  • SharePoint
  • Google Drive
  • Slack
  • Salesforce
  • Notion
  • MCP

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • SEO
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • X
  • customer stories

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Dhiren Bhatia
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Co-founder & CEO at Inventive AI. Most recently, Founder & CEO at Viewics (acquired by Roche) - a SaaS analytics platform and suite of applications for health systems and clinical laboratories. MBA (UC Berkeley) | MS (Texas A&M University) | BE (University of Mumbai)
  • name: Vishakh Hegde
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: I previously led ML efforts at Ambient AI (yc17 / a16z). Studied ML and AI at Stanford. Went to IIT Madras for undergrad. I've published papers in ML/AI and have also authored a book deep learning (link: https://a.co/d/07ZnJwZ). Always looking to solve *real* problems. Love tinkering with technology.
  • name: Gaurav Nemade
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Previously, Product Manager at Google AI & Google Brain and the first PM on Google's LLM platform - LaMDA that powered Google Bard. Studied CS from IIT Roorkee.

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