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Proposal operations handled end to end. Not staffing. A delivery model.
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Objective, scored assessment benchmarked against top-performing organizations.
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Standardize how you compete. Win the same way every time.
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Scale BD capability across markets, time zones, and procurement environments.
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Proposal Development
Proposal Managers
Leads the team in producing responsive, compliant proposals.
Proposal Writers
Writes compelling content that conveys strengths and meets all requirements
Volume Leads
Leads the development of cost, management, past performance, technical volumes
Content Managers
Maintains and expands your database of high-quality reusable proposal content
Graphics & Desktop Publishers
Produces visually appealing, compliant proposals
Orals Coaches
Prepares teams to deliver engaging, successful presentations with confidence
Proposal Assessment
Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of proposals using Shipley best practices
Proposal Reviewers
Analyzes bids for completeness, compliance, and value to recommend the best solution for a proposal
Capture Management
Capture Advisors
Provides strategic guidance and expertise in securing opportunities and winning business
Price to Win / Competitive Assessment
Analyzes the competitive landscape and develop a winning pricing strategy
Capture Plan Assessment
Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of capture plans using Shipley best practices
Training
Capture Training
Capturing Federal Business
Capturing New Business
Capturing New Business - OnDemand
Pricing to Win
Qualifying to Win
Multi-Topic Workshops
Business Development Boot Camp
Writing and Managing Federal Proposals
Pricing to Win/Winning in the Cost Volume
Proposal Training
Managing Federal Proposals
Managing Strategic Proposal - OnDemand
Managing Strategic Proposals
Other Transactional Authority (OTA)
POWeRful Proposal Writing
POWeRful Proposal Writing - OnDemand
Winning Color Team Reviews
Winning Executive Summaries
Winning in the Cost Volume
Winning with Past Performance
Writing Federal Proposals
Writing Federal Proposals / Other Transactional Authority
AI
Shipley AI 2026
Limited Time
$7,000+ Off Certification Package
OnDemand Training
POWeRful Proposal Writing - OnDemand
Managing Strategic Proposal - OnDemand
Capturing New Business - OnDemand
An Overview of Color Team Reviews
Discriminators and Theme Statements
Executive Summary Development
Foundations for Proposal Development (APMP®)
Outlining
Pink Team Reviews
Proposal Graphics and Action Captions
Proposal Kickoff Meetings
Proposal Writing - POWeR
Storyboarding and Mockups
Task Order Responses
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Managed Services
Proposal operations handled end to end. Not staffing. A delivery model.
Win Rate Diagnostic & Performance Benchmarking
Objective, scored assessment benchmarked against top-performing organizations.
BD Process Design & Refinement
Standardize how you compete. Win the same way every time.
Global BD Expansion
Scale BD capability across markets, time zones, and procurement environments.
Consulting
Proposal Development
Proposal managers
Leads the team in producing responsive, compliant proposals.
Proposal Writers
Writes compelling content that conveys strengths and meets all requirements
Volume Leads
Leads the development of cost, management, past performance, technical volumes
Content Managers
Maintains and expands your database of high-quality reusable proposal content
Graphics & Desktop Publishers
Produces visually appealing, compliant proposals
Orals Coaches
Prepares teams to deliver engaging, successful presentations with confidence
Proposal Assessment
Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of proposals using Shipley best practices
Proposal Reviewers
Analyzes bids for completeness, compliance, and value to recommend the best solution for a proposal
Capture Management
Capture Advisors
Provides strategic guidance and expertise in securing opportunities and winning business
Price to Win / Competitive Assessment
Analyzes the competitive landscape and develop a winning pricing strategy
Capture Plan Assessment
Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of capture plans using Shipley best practices
Proposal Development
Proposal Managers
Leads the team in producing responsive, compliant proposals.
Proposal Writers
Writes compelling content that conveys strengths and meets all requirements
Volume Leads
Leads the development of cost, management, past performance, technical volumes
Content Managers
Maintains and expands your database of high-quality reusable proposal content
Training
Capture Training
Capturing Federal Business
Capturing New Business
Capturing New Business - OnDemand
Pricing to Win
Qualifying to Win
Multi-Topic Workshops
Business Development Boot Camp
Writing and Managing Federal Proposals
Pricing to Win/Winning in the Cost Volume
AI
Shipley AI 2026
Limited Time
$7,000+ Off Certification Package
Proposal Training
Managing Federal Proposals
Managing Strategic Proposal - OnDemand
Managing Strategic Proposals
Other Transactional Authority (OTA)
POWeRful Proposal Writing
POWeRful Proposal Writing - OnDemand
Winning Color Team Reviews
Winning Executive Summaries
Winning in the Cost Volume
Winning with Past Performance
Writing Federal Proposals
Writing Federal Proposals / Other Transactional Authority
Micro Courses
POWeRful Proposal Writing - OnDemand
Managing Strategic Proposal - OnDemand
Capturing New Business - OnDemand
An Overview of Color Team Reviews
Discriminators and Theme Statements
Executive Summary Development
Foundations for Proposal Development (APMP®)
Outlining
Pink Team Reviews
Proposal Graphics and Action Captions
Proposal Kickoff Meetings
Proposal Writing - POWeR
Storyboarding and Mockups
Task Order Responses
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All glossary terms
AI Fundamentals & AI for Proposals
Prompt
The natural-language instruction a person enters into an AI system to produce a response.
Related terms
Affirmation
A prompting technique in which the user tells the AI what was valuable about its last response, increasing the likelihood the next response follows that same direction.
AI Agent
An AI system that can carry out a multi-step task toward a stated goal with less step-by-step human direction than a standard chat assistant, such as researching a solicitation and flagging gaps.
AI Governance
The policies, roles, and review processes an organization puts in place to make sure AI tools are used safely, ethically, and in line with contract and data requirements.
Artificial Intelligence
Computer systems built to perform tasks that normally require human judgment, such as reading documents, recognizing patterns, or drafting text.
Bias
A systematic error in an AI model's outputs, often reflecting patterns or imbalances present in its training data.
Chain of Thought
The sequence of intermediate reasoning steps a model works through on its way to a final answer, similar to a visible train of thought.
Context Window
The amount of text an AI model can take in and consider at one time when generating a response.
Continuation
A prompting technique in which the user gives further instructions after an AI response to advance the conversation toward the specific output they actually need.
Deep Learning
A type of machine learning that uses layered neural networks to recognize complex patterns in data, underlying most modern language and image models.
Fine-Tuning
Further training a general AI model on a narrower, specific dataset so it performs better on a particular task, such as a company's own proposal voice and formatting.
Foundation Model
A large, general-purpose AI model trained on broad data and adapted for many different downstream tasks rather than built for one narrow job.
Generative AI
AI that creates new content (text, images, or other material) rather than only retrieving or scoring existing information.
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