Duct for bids and proposals
Answer the next tender with your best past answers.
Duct finds what you wrote in every past bid, CV and certificate, so your team writes less and wins more.
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The problem
Every tender asks questions you have answered before: company profile, past projects, CVs, methodology, certificates. The best answers sit in last year’s submissions, and teams rewrite them under deadline pressure.
What Duct does
- Searches every past proposal, CV, certificate and tender document across formats, including the ZIP packages tenders arrive in.
- Tag documents by tender, client and outcome (won or lost), and filter by them.
- Collect the best answers across searches and export them, with sources, into a Word document.
- Ask (Labs) drafts an answer from past submissions, with numbered sources to check.
How it works for bids and proposals
- 1
Add past submissions
Every tender, proposal, CV, certificate and method statement, including the ZIP packages tenders arrive in.
- 2
Tag what matters
Tag documents by tender, client and outcome (won or lost), and filter by them.
- 3
Assemble the answer
Collect the best passages and export them with their sources into Word.
Made for this work
The parts of Duct you’ll use most.
Know which answers won
Tag past bids by client, sector and outcome, then search only the winning ones.
Collect, then export
Gather passages from several searches into one list and export it as a Word document, each passage with its source.
A first draft with sources
Ask (Labs) drafts an answer from your past submissions with numbered sources, so you can check every line before it goes in.
Closing dates on your home screen
Tender documents say when bids must be in. The deadlines radar lists those dates as they come up, so a closing date doesn’t slip.
Reads the files you already have
No converting, no uploading. Duct reads 99 file types where they are.
Search you can verify
Every result names the file and the page it came from, and opens the document there with your words highlighted. Your documents stay on your computer or your own server.
Which plan
Team, with Pro for AI answer drafting.
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Can it read the ZIP files tenders come in?
Yes. Duct reads the files inside ZIP archives, including Office documents and PDFs.
Which AI model drafts answers?
The one you choose: a local model with Ollama, or a provider with your own key. Pro will include one.
Can the whole bid team use it?
Yes, with a shared Duct server on your network.
Other teams using Duct
Answer the next tender with your best past answers.
macOS, Windows and Linux · No account needed · Open source