As you probably know, GovSpend is the world's most comprehensive archive of open RFPs and bids. And as a follow-up, I've invited my colleague Ben Hills to join us. Ben is the CEO and founder of Iris. That's our partner solution that puts the magic of AI behind your RFP process and reduces the time to first draft from weeks or days to just minutes. Ben, now that we have a pipeline of bids to chase, can you show us how we can quickly put together a winning response? Absolutely. So great to be here, Nate. Just three years ago, I was leading sales at an ed tech company as a GovSpend user, finding dozens of more bids every month of colleges looking for software just like ours. Problem was, didn't magically find more people who had the time to respond to all those bids. Now with Iris, we can actually respond to all of our available opportunities. Now Iris is built around all of your institutional knowledge. So into Iris, will bring past proposals and marketing collateral and case studies and security policies, everything that actually makes up the brain of the system. Then when you get a bid, you'll bring it from GovSpend right into Iris. And here you can actually make your go no go decision. You'll see all the key dates inside of that procurement timeline, and you can add them to your calendar so you don't forget about them. Any of the key contacts, scoring criteria, and then the actual requirements where we'll use all of your knowledge based content to determine whether or not you meet these criteria. You can always override these decisions by Iris. So if your GoNoGo team is in here and they decide, hey, we actually will do this infrastructure for this prospect, you can do all of that right here. Now when you're ready, you can click Start Response and Iris will move into the Response component. In our Response workflow, you'll see all of the content that Iris has generated, sources of where Iris pulled this information from. You can always reassign this to other subject matter experts on your team, make all of your edits and changes. When you're done, export it on your own custom branded template so it looks production ready, send it back to your prospect and win more business. With the power of the data from GovSpend and the response workflow from Iris, teams can now respond to more bids with higher quality responses and help them win more business. Nate, back to you. Great stuff, Ben. Iris is an absolute superpower. Dozens of our customers use the solution today, and we'd love for that to be even more. Reach out if you want to learn more or get access. Ben, we're grateful to be partnered with you. Thanks.
See how GovSpend’s comprehensive pipeline of open RFPs and bids pairs with Iris, an AI-powered response platform, to transform how teams pursue and win opportunities. This walkthrough shows how past proposals and institutional knowledge are used to guide go/no-go decisions, track key dates and contacts, and automatically draft high-quality, branded responses in minutes. Learn how the combined workflow helps organizations respond to more bids, improve quality, and close more business—faster.


