A desktop app for capture and proposal teams. An AI assistant helps with research and first drafts, and your team writes the proposal. Like a software team's tools, it tracks every change, keeps every review round, and records who approved what.
The offeror will migrate the legacy case system in three phases, each ending in an operational acceptance review L.3.2
Phase 1 stands up the target platform beside the current systemso cutover can be rehearsed before go-live.
☑ Mapped to M.2.1 criteria
☐ Pricing assumptions
Assistant
L.3.2 asks for an acceptance review after each phase. Your draft has one for phases 1 and 2, not 3.
Upload Technical approach to the review site
Needs approval · your rule
ApproveDeny
Illustration of the Paettern BDE window: a pursuit's RFP and proposal sections, the technical approach open in the editor, and the assistant pointing out a requirement the draft doesn't cover yet, with an upload to the SharePoint review site waiting for approval.
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One window
The RFP, your sections, the compliance matrix and the assistant sit in one place, instead of a shared drive, a chat tab and a folder of templates.
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Research and drafts
Ask it to pull the requirements out of Section L, check a section against Section M, or rough out a first draft. Your writers decide what stays.
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Yours to keep
Your work is saved as ordinary files on your computer. Open them anywhere, with or without BDE.
Boundary
AI inside the boundary.
BDE runs on your computer, not in our cloud. The AI model is one your organization picks, on its own servers or in its own cloud account. Anything sent or uploaded is checked against your rules first, and the steps your rules flag wait for a person to approve.
Your computer
Paettern BDEAssistantYour filesActivity record
→Rules + approval→
Your AI model your servers or cloud accountSharePoint your review site
Illustration of the boundary: BDE, the assistant, your files and the activity record sit on your computer; anything going out to your AI model or SharePoint passes your rules and, where they say so, a person's approval.
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Word in
approach-v3.docx
Reviewer: “Tighten the transition timeline.”
→
In BDE
Technical approach
4. Transition
Weeks 1–2: parallel run
→
Word out
approach-v4.docx
Transition completes in sixfour weeks.
Illustration of round-trip review: a reviewer's Word document comes into BDE, and goes back out as a Word document with tracked changes.
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Review
Round-trip review.
Word in, Word out. Pink, red and gold team reviewers keep marking up in Word. BDE brings in their edits, helps you work through them, and hands back a tracked-changes document for the next round.
Custody
Chain of custody.
BDE keeps a record of everything that leaves your computer: who started it, what it touched and who signed off. When your compliance lead or an assessor asks how AI was used on a proposal, the answer is already written down.
Illustration of the chain-of-custody log: timestamped rows showing what the assistant or a person did, and whether each action was allowed, approved or denied.
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Playbook
Your playbook, enforced.
Your house style, templates and do's and don'ts live in one playbook. The assistant reads it before it reads the RFP.
Playbook
· Section numbering follows the solicitation.
· No past-performance figure without a cited source.
· Pricing language goes to the pricing lead.
Illustration of a playbook: a short list of the team's rules that the assistant reads before working on a pursuit.
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Tripwire
Tripwire.
Each pursuit is labeled with how sensitive it is. If the assistant finds material marked above that level, it stops and flags it for a person instead of carrying on.
Case modernizationInternal
Reading Past proposal (PDF) …
Tripwire
Found material marked above this pursuit's level. Paused until a person reviews it.
Illustration of the tripwire: while reading for an internal pursuit, the assistant finds material marked above that level and pauses until a person reviews it.
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Extensions
No plugins. No surprises.
Nothing can be added to BDE after the fact. Every tool is built in and can be switched off, and no usage data is sent to us.
Boundaries of the product
What it isn't.
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Not a ghostwriter
It helps with research and drafts. Your people write, review and sign off on the proposal.
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Not a hosted service
BDE runs on your computers. Your proposals never pass through Paettern.
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Not a black box
Every step that leaves your computer is on record, and the ones your rules flag wait for a person.
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