{"id":2917,"date":"2023-01-27T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autogenai.dsstaging2.com\/uk\/blog\/dont-get-left-behind-the-benefits-for-bid-writers-of-early-ai-adoption\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:33:55","slug":"dont-get-left-behind-the-benefits-for-bid-writers-of-early-ai-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autogenai.com\/uk\/blog\/dont-get-left-behind-the-benefits-for-bid-writers-of-early-ai-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Get Left Behind: The Benefits for Bid Writers of Early AI Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early 2020, when AutogenAI founder Sean Williams mentioned that he planned to use AI to automate bid writing, I thought he was joking. This was impossible, surely? I was in the midst of a highly complex multimillion central government tender, working alongside a team of solution designers, finance specialists and operational leads, and I could not conceive of technology that could aggregate the information needed for a successful bid.<\/p>\n

18 months later, Sean posted on LinkedIn about the potential of AI in bid writing. Only, Sean did not author the post \u2013 as the final line revealed, it was written entirely by AI. I was astounded, and a little disturbed. I had always thought my profession to be future-proof.<\/p>\n

AutogenAI was soon founded and, while intrigued, I remained sceptical. After all, it is one thing to pen a neat LinkedIn post \u2013 quite another to produce a compelling bid response. So, when Sean sought to recruit bid writers to join the project, I was torn. Would I be digging my own grave?<\/p>\n

I have now been at AutogenAI for six months. Working alongside Machine Learning specialists, developers and fellow bid writers to develop a product that channels the power of AI to speed up the bid writing process. I have been regularly astonished at its awesome power to create in a fraction of the time a human would take.<\/p>\n

And yet \u2013 bid writing as a profession will remain. You cannot (yet) produce a compelling tender with all its various nuances in a few clicks. What you can do, however, is speed up the tasks that make bid writing such a lengthy and arduous process.<\/p>\n

You can generate good ideas and examples at the click of a button \u2013 but you need the expertise to ask the right question in the first place. You can turn those ideas into good first drafts \u2013 but you need the skills to hone text into a great winning response. You can improve your grammar, translate your text, expand, compress and incorporate statistics \u2013 but you need experience to combine these elements to form one cohesive whole.<\/p>\n

From a business perspective, this means that more bids can be produced more quickly, increasing the number of opportunities an organisation can bid for with the same staff and resources. From a bid writers\u2019 perspective, the job becomes more fun, more creative and less stressful.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve worked on the AI \u2013 but it has also worked on me. My interests have broadened \u2013 instead of history books and articles, I\u2019m more attracted to forward looking news and content. Instead of working alone in a darkened room, I now collaborate with some of the cleverest people I\u2019ve ever met. I now find it hard to imagine standing outside of the AI fence looking in: I expect I would know very little. I would have remained working comfortably \u2013 while pretty ignorant of AI and how it can enhance our profession.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, no matter where you land on the issue, there is no holding back the tide \u2013 bids will be produced using AI.\u00a0Bid writers who get on board and master the tech now will be the most sought after employees and consultants in the near future.<\/strong> But in these early days, attitudes to the new technology are crucial. AutogenAI has launched a\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0of bid writers and managers to assess their attitudes to: AI, technological change and workplace innovation. Bid professionals are asked to rate a series of statements on a 1-5 scale with 1 being strongly disagree and 5 being strongly agree. The survey has been advertised on LinkedIn and will remain open so we can compare attitudes and results over time. The initial results are varied and interesting.<\/p>\n

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