qlows

The first MCP for every inbound request

OffersandProposalsneed top preparation.

Every RFP. Every quote. Every brief. They all start with the same hours of chasing colleagues for input. qlows turns that chase into structured team collaboration — and your AI takes it from there.

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Where the hours actually go

You’re not stuck on the writing. You’re stuck on the input.

Saved per request

0

× 3–8 requests a week for a typical mid-market team

Chasing inputs gone, prompts and edits roughly cut in half. Layout polish stays the same — that one’s on you. Multiplied by every request that hits your team this week.

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Chasing inputs

22h1h

Writing prompts

6h4h

Editing AI output

8h3h

Editing layout

4h4h

You don’t save those hours because qlows writes for you. We don’t. You save them because you stop chasing inputs — every week, on every request — and your team scales pipeline without hiring or burning out.

Who it’s built for

Where AI actually helps your Bid Process — and where it shouldn’t touch it.

Most AI tools try to write your proposal from scratch, resulting in generic fluff. qlows does the heavy lifting before the writing even begins.

Bid & Proposal Managers

AI shouldn’t touch this

Writing the final executive summary without human oversight.

Where qlows helps

Automatically parsing a 120-page RFP PDF in seconds. It extracts hidden deadlines, creates your compliance matrix, and flags potential deal-breakers before anyone writes a word.

The No-Tech Workflow

You get a perfectly prepped briefing. Copy-paste it into your regular ChatGPT or Claude browser window — or hand it directly to your team.

Sales Directors & SME CEOs

AI shouldn’t touch this

Making the strategic Go / No-Go decision for your business.

Where qlows helps

Triage within minutes instead of days. You immediately see if you meet the hard criteria before wasting resources on a pitch you can't win.

The No-Tech Workflow

Zero configuration. You see the dashboard, understand the win-probability, and can align your team instantly.

Subject Matter Experts & Teams

AI shouldn’t touch this

Answering deep, proprietary technical questions out of thin air.

Where qlows helps

Stop chasing people for answers. qlows generates targeted Magic Links for your experts. They click, answer one specific question in 30 seconds, and the AI weaves it into the compliance context.

The Tech-Native Workflow

If your team uses Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Code, they can pull the full bid context natively via our integrated MCP server.

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How it works

Six stages. From dropped PDF to shipped bid.

Drop.

Page-1 facts in under a minute. No 140-page tax.

Stage 1 · Request

Drop the PDF. Skip the first hour.

Upload the PDF — qlows parses every page including footnotes, evaluation tables, and clause references. Or paste in the bare details if the request came by email. Either way, you skip the “what's even in here” tax.

Outcome

In under a minute you have: deadline, contract value, submission channel, page inventory. The bid clock starts when you decide it does — not when you've finished reading 140 pages.

Read.

Every claim sourced to its page. Senior-bid-manager triage in 5 minutes.

Stage 2 · Intelligence

What the RFP actually says — without re-reading it.

qlows reads the request the way a senior bid manager would. The submission deadline that isn't on the cover page. The eligibility gates that disqualify you before you start. The tailored language that signals the incumbent is wired in. Every claim sourced to the page it came from.

Outcome

One screen answers the three questions you ask yourself anyway: do I have time, am I eligible, should I bid at all. No becomes no in 5 minutes, not 5 days. Yes becomes “yes, and here's where to focus” before anyone writes a word. Wired against the incumbent? You see it before you commit 40 hours.

Map.

Every must, shall, and will provide — categorized, page-linked, ownable.

Stage 3 · Compliance

Every requirement, mapped. Nothing missed.

qlows pulls every must, shall, and will provide into a single compliance matrix — categorized, source-page-linked, owner-assignable. Page limits, format rules, mandatory certifications — surfaced before the first sentence is drafted.

Outcome

The first thing the evaluator checks is the compliance matrix. Yours is done before the proposal is. No discovering a missed clause at 11pm the night before submission.

Position.

Customer priorities, competitor map, your differentiators — one workspace.

Stage 4 · Playing Field

Know the table before you sit down.

qlows pulls the customer's actual priorities (from their prior procurements), who else is likely bidding, and where your story differentiates. The customer profile, the competitor map, your positioning — all in one workspace your whole team works from.

Outcome

Every answer in Stage 5 gets written for this customer against these competitors with your proof points. Not generic copy lifted from last quarter's bid.

Route.

Drafted from the library. Routed by magic link. SMEs answer in 20 minutes.

Stage 5 · Q-Routing

Stop chasing. Route instead.

Instead of pinging your team on Slack, qlows splits the response into discrete questions, drafts the ones it can answer from your library, and routes the rest by magic link — your security architect, your finance lead, your delivery owner. They answer in their browser. Answers land back in the bid.

Outcome

Your CEO gets pinged for 4 strategic answers, not 47. Your SMEs spend 20 minutes each, not a weekend. The bid hits review with a complete first draft — days earlier than usual.

Ship.

MCP-grounded for your AI. Tier-1 polish for the evaluator.

Stage 6 · Hand-off

Ship to your AI. Or ship to the evaluator.

qlows preps — it doesn't write your proposal. Your senior writer or your AI of choice does. Stage 6 outputs in two shapes: a context-pack your AI reads via MCP (Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT — drop in once, every query is bid-aware), and a clean Word/PDF/JSON package for the formal submission.

Outcome

Your writer (human or AI) starts with a brief, not the original PDF. The evaluator opens a package that reads like your most experienced bid lead wrote it. If they question an answer, every claim links back to the source page in the original request — automatically.

The ecosystem

Works with the AI your team already uses.

Your AI writes the bid. qlows just makes sure it has the right brief. Native plug-in for Claude and the rest of the dev-tool stack — your AI sees the bid as you work, no copy-paste. For ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and anything else, a one-click brief you paste into any session.

Model Context Protocol

MCP-native

Native plug-in. Zero copy-paste.

Your AI sees the bid as you work — every query stays bid-aware.

  • Claude DesktopClaude Desktop
  • Claude CodeClaude Code
  • CursorCursor
  • WindsurfWindsurf
  • ClineCline
  • VS Code CopilotVS Code Copilot

every other MCP client

Model export

One click. Pastes into anything.

A clean brief in your clipboard. Drop it into any AI session — it lands grounded.

  • ChatGPTChatGPT
  • GeminiGemini
  • PerplexityPerplexity
  • Le ChatLe Chat
  • NotebookLMNotebookLM
  • Notion AINotion AI
  • DeepSeekDeepSeek
  • GrokGrok
  • Hugging FaceHugging Face
  • OllamaOllama

any AI you can paste into

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Pricing

Pay for what wins.

Start free. Upgrade when you need to act on it.

Free

See it

$0

/month · forever free

Try on your next request.

  • 1 deal/month — analysis only
  • Compliance grid + tailoring
  • Q-Catalog (non-AI)
  • 30-day data retention

Solo

Act on it

$99/month

billed monthly

For the bid manager working solo.

  • 10 deals/month
  • AI Q-Catalog · auto-answers
  • Export pack + PDF
  • MCP to your own AI
  • 1 mo. Team Manager free

Team Manager

Share it

$129/month

billed monthly

Coordinate inputs from your team.

  • Everything in Solo
  • Magic-link Q-Routing
  • Up to 5 team seats
  • Status + team reminders
  • Priority email + chat

Pro

Scale it

$399/month

billed monthly

Volume + power for bid organizations.

  • Everything in Team Manager
  • 50 deals/month
  • Unlimited Q-Routing
  • Bulk ops + multi-workspace
  • API + webhooks

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Data security

Your bid data stays private — period.

We get it. Every incoming RFP, RFQ, or questionnaire carries your most sensitive intelligence — pricing strategy, technical methodology, customer history. qlows runs on Anthropic’s no-training API endpoints with strict per-tenant isolation and EU + US data regions.

Nothing you upload is ever sent to a third party for model training. For contractual privacy guarantees (no-training, no-retention, data-residency), reach out for Enterprise terms.

Enterprise · On-Prem · Custom

Need volume, SSO, or a self-hosted deployment?

I’m Robin — founder of qlows. I personally take every enterprise conversation. No SDR funnel, no demo-bot. Reach out directly.

Robin Dauer, founder of qlows

Robin Dauer

Founder, qlows

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FAQ

Questions you’ll want answered.

  • qlows is an MCP-native preparation tool for bid teams. It reads incoming requests — RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, tenders, SOWs — extracts every requirement with source-page links, routes open questions to your team via no-login magic-links, and hands a grounded brief to your AI of choice. Founded in 2026, qlows is built for SMB bid teams who write with AI but get stuck on the prep work, not the writing.

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Stop drafting blind

Your next request is already on someone’s desk — RFP, RFQ, tender, SOW. Show up with the prep that wins.

No card. 1 deal/month, on us.

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