No More Copy-Pasting: Qandai's AI-Driven Approach to RFPs

Repetitive tasks can fill us with anxiety, annoyance — even dread. That’s one of the main problems with RFPs. Find yourself tasked with completing endless cycles of RFPs or RFIs and you’ll soon grow to loathe the very mention of the subject (unless you're a special breed of person who loves stressful, tedious, often unrewarding tasks).

The very process has the effect of making people think and act like robots.

For many of us, RFPs are an extra task over and above our day-to-day job roles. If we’re asked to provide detailed information it’ll often be late in the evening or worked around other deliverables and deadlines.

Confronted with endless RFPs it's surprisingly easy to slip into apathy. The first time we’re asked a question, chances are we’ll try our utmost to answer it as accurately as possible. But by the twentieth time we’re asked the same, or an incredibly similar question, our replies will become generic, or worse still, monosyllabic. A fintech CTO we interviewed succinctly summed up the problem:

“I started out enthusiastically answering every question. But by my fifth, lengthy RFP I was just filling in answers to get through the process as quickly as possible.”

This also throws up a bit of a paradox — the more RFPs someone does, the lower quality their answers. Shouldn’t the opposite be true, with the answers getting better and better over time? It’s obvious why this is the case—we’re human. The more we’re asked to do the same boring task, the less enthusiasm we’ll eventually show for that task.

Qandai flips this on its head, using machine learning to ensure that your answers get better and more accurate over time. This allows you the freedom to spend time crafting the answers that will really make the difference, not the ones you just have to complete.