Skip the demo. Win the bid.
Self-Serve turns a solicitation into a submitted, on-brand proposal in five guided steps. It’s in final testing and opens shortly — join the waitlist and we’ll email you the day it does. Subscribers will pay less per bid.
No account needed · one email, the day it opens
- Five guided steps
- Drafts from your own content
- Compliance + scoring built in
- Exports a designed PDF
What you don’t have to do first
Most RFP software is sold to companies that already bid — with a proposal manager, a library of past answers, and a procurement budget. Getting a price out of them takes a meeting.
Self-Serve is for the other case: you found a bid worth winning, and the people who’ll write it are the people who do everything else too.
- Sit through a demo
- Talk to a salesperson
- Sign an annual contract
- Hire a proposal writer
- Already have a content library
- Already know how to bid
Five steps, and the hard part is already done
You bring the bid and the judgment. Self-Serve brings the structure.
- Step 1
Assess
Should you even bid?
Self-Serve reads the whole solicitation, pulls the key details, flags the risks, and surfaces the evaluation criteria — then helps you make a confident bid-or-pass call. Say yes, and it turns that call into a strategy: which content to pull, which advantages to lead with.
- Key details, dates & risks extracted for you
- Evaluation criteria surfaced up front
- A win strategy the AI carries into every later step
- Step 2
Outline
Every requirement, in order.
Skip the highlighter pass. Self-Serve pulls every requirement out of the RFP and puts it in order, then walks you through building a compliant outline — structured the way evaluators expect to read it, ready for AI enhancement.
- Every requirement extracted and ordered for you
- Guided, section-by-section outline building
- Enhance any section with AI
- Step 3 · the one that shines
Respond
The magic step.
This is where 40 hours becomes < 4. Draft the full proposal with AI that writes from your reusable content library and follows the strategy you set in Assess — with pricing guidance, and the documents and forms handled alongside the narrative.
- AI drafts from your own past answers — your voice, not a generic one
- Pricing guidance built in
- Documents & forms handled in the same flow
- Step 4
Review
Catch everything before the buyer does.
Confirm every blank is filled, run AI compliance analysis against the solicitation, and practice-score your proposal against the actual evaluation criteria — so you submit knowing how you'll be judged.
- AI compliance analysis of the full response
- Practice scoring against the real evaluation criteria
- Editing tools to polish every section
- Step 5
Finalize
Make it look like you.
Bring in your brand kit and let AI apply it, choose imagery and templates with adjustable creativity, and export a polished PDF or a shareable link. What lands in the buyer's inbox looks designed — because it is.
- Your brand kit, applied with AI
- Imagery from Unsplash or your own library
- Export as a polished PDF or a shareable link
What’s in it
AI autofill
Auto-draft answers that pull from everything you've already written.
Reusable content library
Your best answers, saved once and reused on every future bid.
Compliance + scoring
Catch every requirement and pre-score your bid before you submit.
Brand kit + export
Drop in your logo and colors; ship a designed, on-brand proposal.
Analytics
See how your responses perform and where to sharpen the next one.
Gets better every bid
The more you respond, the richer your library — and the faster the next draft.
Built by The Bid Lab
We wrote RFPs before we wrote software.
Self-Serve drafts the way we do, because we’ve been doing it since 2017 — the questions we ask first, the requirements evaluators actually score, the parts that quietly lose contracts.
Questions
What is Bid Banana Self-Serve?
Self-Serve is Bid Banana's AI-assisted RFP response tool. It walks you from a scary RFP to a submitted, on-brand proposal in five guided steps — Assess, Outline, Respond, Review, and Finalize. AI does the heavy lifting; you keep the strategy and the voice.
Why not just use a general AI assistant?
Because it starts you at a blank box. Self-Serve is purpose-built for RFPs: it reads the solicitation, extracts every requirement and helps you build them into a compliant outline, drafts against your reusable content library, checks compliance against the actual evaluation criteria, and packages the finished proposal with your brand kit.
How long does an RFP response really take?
Responses that used to take around 40 hours can be drafted in < 4 hours. The AI drafts; you refine. And the more you build up your content library, the faster every future response gets.
Do I need Bid Banana Search to use Self-Serve?
They're two halves of one journey — Search finds the right bid, Self-Serve responds and wins it — but you can also bring your own RFP straight into Self-Serve.
What if I get stuck?
Self-Serve drafts from how The Bid Lab has answered RFPs since 2017, so the hard-won judgment is already in the tool. If a bid still needs a human read, send it over and we'll come back with what we'd do — scoped and priced per bid.
One credit, one bid
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Everything above is built and in final testing. It opens shortly — join the waitlist and we’ll email you the day it does. Subscribers will pay less per bid.
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