Winning Proposals
Shouldn't Take 40 Hours to Assemble.
Consultants sell judgment, but the week gets eaten by research aggregation, proposal assembly, and deck reformatting. The judgment is where the margin lives. The assembly is where the hours go.
The Hidden Cost of Rebuilding the Deck Every Week
Every consulting firm we've talked to has the same pattern. Associates and managers spend their best hours pulling research from three sources, copy-pasting into a deck template someone built six projects ago, and reformatting the same charts in slightly different client branding. The partner does the thinking. The team does the assembly. The client pays for both.
The fix isn't hiring another associate. It's a system that owns the 60% of a proposal or deliverable that's already templated, already patterned, and already sitting in work you've done before. That gives you your best people back to do the synthesis and strategy work that actually wins the engagement.
What We Build for Management Consulting
Four build patterns that come up on almost every consulting audit. Mix, match, or start with one and expand.
Research cycle in hours, not days
- Pulls from industry reports, filings, news, past engagements
- Produces structured briefs with sources and key quotes
- Pattern callouts ready for consultant synthesis
First-draft proposals in hours
- Templates fill scope language, case studies, pricing
- Pulls relevant-experience sections from your library
- Partners review only the judgment calls
Get associates to 70% on first pass
- Slide assembly from your templates
- Chart reformatting to client branding
- First-draft executive summaries and exhibit builds
Your firm's IP, searchable in seconds
- Indexes past decks, SOWs, briefs, engagement notes
- Surfaces precedent in one query
- No more pinging Slack or hunting old Drives
Audit, Build, Maintain
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute audit. If we find enough hours to return, we scope a fixed build at the tier that matches your firm. No retainer required, no mystery pricing.
Free 30-Min Audit
Map the ops, identify the 3–5 workflows with the highest ROI, show you rough numbers and which tier fits.
Scoped Proposal
Fixed-scope build at a tier you pick. Clear deliverables, milestones, and a target go-live date. Pay on delivery milestones.
Build + Maintain
Ship the workflows. Monthly: Nextera hosts it, we monitor + fix bugs, priority Slack support. Cancel anytime. The build is yours.
Pricing Tiers
- One focused workflow automated end to end
- 1–2 integrations with tools you already use
- Human review gate on anything that ships externally
- Monthly: Nextera hosting, monitoring, bug fixes, priority Slack
- AI usage included up to a tier cap (overage at cost)
Best for one painful task eating 10+ hours a week.
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- 3–5 connected workflows across one function
- Dashboards and notifications for the function lead
- Multiple integrations across research, proposal, and delivery tools
- Review gates, audit logs, role-based access where they matter
Best for a function (research, proposals, deliverables) where several workflows compound.
- Everything in Growth, plus:
- Full ops system across teams with custom tooling
- Approval gates, audit logs, and private model routing
- Integrations across the full stack with role-based access
- Dashboards for partners, ops, and project leads
- Quarterly reviews
Best for firm-wide transformation.
All builds include human review gates where they matter. Monthly covers Nextera-hosted infrastructure, monitoring, bug fixes, priority Slack, and AI usage up to a tier cap (overage at cost). Cancel anytime. The hosted system stops, but the build is yours; email a code handoff request anytime.
Wondering if hiring is cheaper than building? See the full cost-of-hiring comparison →
What the 30-Min Audit Covers
Pull in your managing partner or ops lead. We ask specific questions about where the firm's hours go.
- Research and synthesis: how your firm sources, stores, and reuses market research and case studies today, and where AI compresses hours of reading into hours of judgment.
- Proposal and SOW assembly: average hours per proposal, which components are boilerplate, which are genuinely custom, and where templates plus AI drafting cut build time in half.
- Deliverable production: decks, models, reports. What's templatable, what lives in partners' heads, and where AI drafting gets you to 70% on a first pass.
- Internal knowledge management: whether your firm's IP is searchable or trapped in old Slack threads and former consultants' Drives. Where a searchable knowledge layer compounds fast.
- Client comms: status reports, recap emails, weekly updates. The cadence that eats evenings and is almost entirely auto-draftable with human review gates.
Free, 30 minutes, no pitch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will AI write my client deliverables for me?
No. AI drafts the assembly work: research pulls, template fills, first-draft sections, formatting. Your consultants review and own the judgment layer. The goal is to get your team to 70% on a first pass so they spend their time on synthesis and strategy, not copy-paste.
How does this work with confidential client data?
Scope-dependent. We scope client-data handling up front and build with role-based access, audit logs, and private model routing where required so client data never touches public model endpoints. This gets walked through in the audit so you know exactly what the build looks like before you commit.
How do I know which tier is right for me?
That's exactly what the free audit is for. In 30 minutes we'll map your workflows, see where the hours are going, and tell you whether Starter (one focused workflow), Growth (a function-level build), or Scale (firm-wide) is the right first move. Most firms start with Starter or Growth and expand from there. If you'd rather see exactly what's in each tier first, the tier comparison lays out scope, pricing, and timeline side-by-side.
What does the monthly cover and can I cancel?
Monthly covers Nextera-hosted infrastructure, uptime monitoring, bug fixes, priority Slack support, and AI usage up to a tier cap (overage passes through at cost). It's month to month with no contract. Cancel anytime: the hosted system stops, but the build is yours. Email a code handoff request anytime and we'll send the source so you can self-host or hand to another team.
Stop Paying Associates to Copy-Paste.
30 minutes, free. We'll show you the two or three workflows your firm should own first and walk through rough numbers. If your ops are already tight, we'll tell you that and we'll part ways.
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