How To Co-write Tenders With AI

TLDR: Your team doesn't need to be a prompt engineer or AI expert to get the best use out of frontier AI models. Learn to co-write with AI and accelerate your initial drafts, streamline revisions, and deliver higher-quality tender results.

It’s no shock that AI can seriously streamline your writing process. AI can pretty much do everything for you now… but there should be a happy medium. 

What you don’t want is AI writing everything (readers spot this immediately) or AI doing nothing (this is a huge missed opportunity for leverage).

Where you want to be is somewhere in the middle: Co-writing with AI. You want to use it as a leg-up to help you do tasks faster, with higher quality and less manual work.

Here’s how to make it work. 

The Fundamentals: Basic AI Co-Writing Principles 

1. Provide Direction, Context and Expertise. 

Give the AI clear parameters: audience, purpose, tone and structure. Always provide a structure or rough draft of the response that you want AI to follow - never start with a blank slate. 

2. Refine Your Structure

Ask AI to suggest improvements to the structure. This can help to make your value proposition clearer or your writing more succinct for key buyers or evaluators to understand and follow. 

3. Iterate 

Review each section and ask for specific improvements. AI learns from continual feedback and gets better at matching your style each time. When iterating, be specific:

• “Make section 2 more technical” 
• “Simplify the language in the introduction” 
• “Add more specific examples throughout”

4. Work Section By Section

Work through each section individually rather than asking for the whole piece at once. Add parts to your final draft as you go, this gives you better quality control and prevents AI from taking your content in unwanted directions. 

5. Leverage Your Tender Library 

Beef up AI’s context and improve the output by adding relevant responses from your tender library. This gives AI proven examples to work from rather than finding irrelevant data to fill for.

6. Ask For A Final Draft 

Once you’ve iterated through outputs, added structure and context from your past responses, ask the AI to pull it all together into a final draft. But it doesn’t end here!!

7. Iterate Again

Always go back through and edit the response with your own tone, knowledge and insights. This is what makes your content valuable and authentic to your company, ensuring it doesn’t sound like it came straight from an algorithm. 

The Bottom Line 

Co-writing with AI isn’t about automating your entire workload. It’s about using AI as a smart writing partner to amplify your expertise and complete the lengthy writing tasks more efficiently. 

P.S. Use Tendl to get your first drafts faster and easily edit and submit tender responses with less effort using your library of stored past submissions.