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Introducing Custom Responses for Spreadsheets: Revolutionize Your RFP Workflow with Inventive AI RFP Agent & Software

Discover how Inventive AI's custom spreadsheet responses revolutionize RFP processes, offering unprecedented efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility for modern businesses.

Responding to RFPs, RFIs, DDQs, and vendor assessments often means navigating clunky spreadsheets, copying and pasting from old files, and redoing the same work across multiple formats. What if you could automate this process intelligently – with configurable, dynamic responses built right into your spreadsheet environment?

In this blog, we’ll walk through our newly launched feature set, explore the practical benefits for RFP and procurement teams, and explain how this tool eliminates friction in even the most complex response workflows.

What Is It? A Quick Overview

The Custom Responses feature is now available within the Inventive AI RFP Agent. It allows users to embed smart response types directly into spreadsheet cells, including:

  • Text Fields
  • Dropdown Menus
  • Multi-Column Dropdowns
  • Custom Indicators

These options streamline how information is entered, validated, and reused—making manual entry a thing of the past.

📹 Watch the full product demonstration to see it in action.

Benefits of Using Custom Responses

  • Efficiency: Automate repetitive tasks, significantly reducing response time.
  • Accuracy: Standardize responses to minimize errors and maintain compliance.
  • Collaboration: Facilitate seamless teamwork with clear, structured response formats.
  • Scalability: Adapt to various RFP formats and requirements with reusable templates.
  • Empower Non-Technical Users: No need for complex formulas or scripts. If you can use a spreadsheet, you can use this tool.

Real-World Use Cases

  • Sales & Solutions Engineering: Rapidly respond to technical RFPs with consistent, approved language.
  • Compliance Teams: Reuse pre-reviewed dropdowns and indicators to maintain audit standards.
  • Procurement & Vendor Risk: Standardize third-party risk assessments and DDQs with structured formats.

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Ready to transform your RFP response process? Explore Inventive AI's Custom Responses for Spreadsheets and experience a more efficient, accurate, and collaborative approach to handling RFPs.

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About the Author & Reviewer

Dhiren Bhatia

Tired of watching deal cycles stall due to manual questionnaire back-and-forth, Dhiren co-founded Inventive AI to turn the RFP process from a bottleneck into a revenue accelerator. With a track record of scaling enterprise startups to successful acquisition, he combines strategic sales experience with AI innovation to help revenue teams close deals 10x faster.

Mukund Kumar

Growth Marketing Manager, Inventive AI

Understanding that sales leaders struggle to cut through the hype of generic AI, Mukund focuses on connecting enterprises with the specialized RFP automation they actually need at Inventive AI. An IIT Jodhpur graduate with 3+ years in growth marketing, he uses data-driven strategies to help teams discover the solution to their proposal headaches and scale their revenue operations.