- Before
- “I'll sign anything we can deliver. Show me what we can't.” Owns three or four live bids, and can only check the figures he happens to know.
- Now
- Opens the draft with every claim tinted and cited, asks the agents in plain words, and decides 31 fixes in one guided pass, each with a reason code.
One draft, from overnight check to signed gold team
Kestrel & Vane Industrial Services is bidding $14.6M over five years to maintain and remotely monitor warehouse automation at Halvergate Cold Chain's refrigerated distribution centres. Draft v0.8 is 64 pages, the red team meets at 14:00 and the bid is due Tue 20 Oct. Here is the day, screen by screen, in the working solution.
- 01Thursday, 07:52
He asks the agents before he opens the draft
Noah Fisher · Proposal leadNoah's day starts with three numbers: 15 contradicted claims to decide, 7 of 146 requirements still open, and the red team at 14:00 with 5 reviewers. The evidence agent has already said where to start: §4.2, where the draft promises 99.99% availability and the SLA schedule says 99.9%. Noah asks whether the same promise is in any other bid.
Evidence agent: “Yes: Dunmere Foods v0.4, §5.1, the same sentence. It came from library answer LA-0412, last edited in 2024. I suggest Tobias retires that answer.”
- 02Overnight, 06:17–07:52
The draft, every claim tinted by what your records say
The agentsAmara Quist uploaded draft v0.8 at 18:12. Overnight the intake agent read 64 pages, the RFP and compliance matrix CM-031 v3; the claim agent found 318 factual claims in 8 sections; the evidence agent tested each against 27 sources. The draft opens as the customer will read it: 272 claims supported, 31 unsupported and 15 contradicted, with the counts for every paragraph in the margin and every section in the outline.
Second check: 16 reds re-checked · 15 agree · 1 overturned.
- 03One question
“Why is 99.99% red?”
Evidence agentNoah asks in the conversation beside the draft. The evidence agent answers from the Service Level Schedule v7, which commits to 99.9% a month. At 99.99% the company would allow 4.3 minutes of downtime a month instead of 43.8, and each breached month costs a credit of 10% of the monthly fee — about $24,333 on this contract. It opens claim C-041 with both source passages.
Draft says “99.99% platform availability, measured monthly” · Source says “The Monitoring Platform will be available 99.9% of each calendar month”.
- 04One decision
He approves the fix, written from the source
Noah Fisher · Proposal leadThe fix agent drafted the change from the schedule's own wording, and the checker agent, re-deriving it without the first working, agrees; confidence 0.99. Noah approves it with reason code FIX-SRC, “Matches the source”. The draft now offers “99.9% monthly platform availability, as defined in our Service Level Schedule §2.1, with service credits under §4” as a tracked change.
No agent changes the draft. Every fix is a person's decision, with a reason code.
- 05A second opinion
One red overturned, and the record says why
Checker agentThe checker agent re-derived all 16 reds from the claim and the source without seeing the first working. It agreed with 15 and overturned one: C-024, ISO 50001 energy management at four US sites. The first check read a register extract with three sites; the certificate register added Dayton on 2 Oct 2026. The claim is supported.
The checker agent can hold a finding and show both workings. It can never delete one.
- 06Requirements
146 requirements, each traced to its paragraph
Requirements agentAgainst the compliance matrix, 139 requirements are answered, 4 in part and 3 not at all. A-07 is pass/fail: Section 3 runs to 17 pages against a 15-page limit, and pages beyond it are not evaluated. The agent proposes cutting the 1.4-page company history that repeats §1 and moving the Gantt chart to Appendix A, for 14.8 pages. B-33 needs a person: the WMS interface specification lives with Engineering.
“Two CVs must come from the people named. The agents cannot write them.”
- 07Consistency
Another customer's name, found in §3.2
Consistency agentThe consistency agent compared every number, name, date and term across sections, appendices and past bids, and found 9 places where the draft disagrees with itself: 42 field technicians in §3.1 against a staffing table of 38 in §5.2, go-live in 12 weeks against week 16 in the timeline, and “Pellford Foods' Springfield office”, reused from a June 2025 proposal. Each pair shows the source that settles it, and one click applies the right value everywhere.
Consistency agent: “Evaluators read that as a copy.”
- 08Before the room meets
The red team argues strategy, not figures
Amara Quist · Proposal manager22 comments arrived from 5 reviewers. The agents merged the duplicates into 16 and linked 13 to findings they already had — Lena Moritz's “§4.2 says 99.99%. Is that really our SLA?” sits on C-041, already decided. Their pre-review, posted at 07:50, counts 15 contradicted claims with drafted fixes, 31 unsupported, 7 requirements needing work and 9 inconsistencies. Three comments are left for the room: win themes and the account director.
“So the room can spend its two hours on strategy, not on checking figures.”
- 09The guided pass
31 fixes, one at a time — or twelve in one decision
Noah Fisher · Proposal leadThe fix agent drafted 31 fixes — 15 for claims, 9 for consistency, 7 for requirements — and changed nothing in the draft. Noah steps through them with Approve, Edit or Reject: C-012 says 120 deployments since 2018, the project register counts 86, and the March bid to Halvergate said 85. Twelve claim fixes copy the source word for word and the checker agrees with each, so he reviews the list and approves them together. Unlimited liability (C-061) and data location (C-066) go to Ines Calloway.
Fix agent: “The evaluator has that bid.”
- 10Gold team
27 commitments, each with an owner, then one signature
Ines Calloway, Marcus Hale and Grace OduyaThe agents list every promise the final wording makes: 27 commitments, each with its source and its owner. Ines approves the legal wording — liability capped at twice the annual fees under contract playbook CP-9, US hosting with encrypted backups in Toronto — and accepts the 6 legal commitments. Marcus Hale accepts the 9 service commitments: “We can deliver this”. Grace Oduya, VP Sales, types her name and signs the gate: ready to submit.
The signature is blocked while any contradicted claim, requirement or inconsistency is open. The 31 unsupported claims still open do not block it; they are listed on the signed page.