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The RFP Challenge: How AI Automation Is Changing the Game

Written by Sagee Moyal | Feb 26, 2025 2:21:41 PM

For revenue teams, responding to RFPs, security questionnaires, and due diligence requests is a high-stakes process. It’s time-consuming, repetitive, and often chaotic—especially for sales engineers and revenue operations leaders at high-growth startups. But Iris, an AI-driven RFP automation platform, is changing the way companies tackle these complex workflows.

RFPs Are a Bottleneck for Sales and Revenue Teams

Enterprise buyers demand thorough, precise responses in RFPs and security questionnaires, but the process often drags on for weeks. One Director of Revenue Operations at a 500-person SaaS startup shared:

"We used to pull answers from old RFPs, Slack threads, and random Confluence pages. It wasn’t scalable, and it slowed down our sales cycles."

This is the reality for many companies. Sales engineers and RevOps leaders scramble to pull information from Confluence, Salesforce, Highspot, Seismic, Drata, Vanta, Slack, Notion, SharePoint, and Google Drive, often duplicating work and increasing response times. The result? Deals stall, accuracy suffers, and internal teams burn out.

AI-Powered RFP Automation: A New Approach

Iris transforms the RFP response process by integrating directly with existing content repositories, eliminating the need to manually search for answers. An Enterprise Sales Engineer at a cybersecurity firm noted:

"With Iris, we can answer security questionnaires in hours instead of days. It automatically pulls the most relevant, pre-approved content from our systems—no more copy-pasting from outdated docs."

By leveraging AI-driven content retrieval, response suggestion, and workflow automation, Iris ensures teams spend less time on paperwork and more time closing deals.

Seamless Integrations with Your Existing Stack

Unlike legacy RFP tools that require heavy manual input, Iris syncs with the platforms sales and security teams already use, including:

  • Knowledge management: Confluence, Notion, SharePoint, Google Drive
  • Sales enablement: Salesforce, Highspot, Seismic
  • Security compliance: Drata, Vanta
  • Collaboration: Slack

This means that whether teams are searching for previous RFP answers, security compliance details, or product positioning statements, they can find, validate, and submit responses instantly—without leaving their workflow.

The Business Impact of AI-Driven RFP Automation

For revenue teams, the shift to AI-powered RFP automation is more than just convenience—it’s a strategic advantage. A VP of Solutions at a B2B SaaS company summarized:

"We cut RFP turnaround time by 60%, freeing up our team to focus on revenue-generating activities. The accuracy of responses has improved, and we’ve seen a direct impact on win rates."

Faster RFP responses. Higher accuracy. More closed deals.

Iris isn’t just automating RFPs—it’s redefining how companies approach sales enablement and security compliance.