New · For Presales & Systems Engineers

The RFP First-Pass Playbook

Cut Your RFP First-Pass Review
From 4 Hours to 20 Minutes.
Without the Hallucinations.

A 1-hour playbook for Presales Engineers who are tired of RFPs eating their week - and who don’t trust AI output enough to ship it as-is.

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“A strong toolkit and a clear vision of how to leverage AI to improve efficiency and decision-making.” - Aleksander B., Cloud Consultant

You know the drill. An RFP lands Friday afternoon. Pages of repetitive questions, hidden disqualifiers, and one or two clauses that could blow up the deal if you miss them. So you spend the weekend, or your whole Monday, just reading it before you can start the actual technical work.

You’ve already tried using AI for this. It either misses things, surfaces so much noise you spend more time fact-checking than you saved, or hallucinates capabilities you don’t actually have.

This playbook is the workflow that fixes those three problems specifically.

No SaaS subscriptions. No complex data lakes filled with outdated product documentation. No RAG infrastructure to set up. No vendor lock-in. Just a workflow, a single optimized prompt, and the document-prep step almost everyone skips - yours to keep, run anywhere, on any LLM.

Everything You Need in Under an Hour

01 · Video

A walkthrough video.

Watch me run a real (anonymized) RFP through the full workflow, start to finish. No face-cam, no fluff - screen recording with voice-over.

02 · Prompt

An optimized, ultra-detailed RFP analysis prompt.

One highly detailed, battle-tested prompt that handles the full first-pass: requirements extraction, evaluation criteria, risks & technical gotchas, and disqualifying clauses - in a single run. Run it against your own product spec, your full portfolio, or even a competitor’s data sheet to see which solution fits the RFP best and where the gaps are. Copy-paste ready. Tool-agnostic - works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Ollama, or your company’s internal LLM. We want to keep things simple and repeatable.

03 · Step

The pre-flight documents conversion step.

The specific way to prep an RFP and product spec before you feed it to AI - the step almost everyone skips, and the single biggest reason most people get hallucinations on the first try.

BONUS VIDEO: How to Prepare Almost Any Document Format for Effective Use With LLMs

Convert all popular document formats (PDF, DOC, PowerPoint speaker notes, Excel, scanned PDFs, etc.) offline, on your local machine, securely. The step most people don’t realize is critical for reducing hallucinations and improving the quality of outputs from LLMs and LLM-based tools.

Under 1 hour to apply and see the first results.

45-Page RFP →
Structured Compliance Report in ~20 Minutes

rfp-compliance-report.md
RFP compliance report generated by AI

Real output from the playbook workflow · requirements, evaluation criteria, risks & disqualifying clauses in one pass.

What Engineers Say About Karol’s Work

Reviews from engineers who’ve worked through Karol’s training - shared here so you know who’s behind the Playbook. The Playbook itself is new - your honest review after using it will help shape the next version.

The scope is perfectly tailored for systems engineers / presales / platform architects like myself. It lets you grasp the key ideas and concepts behind building AI solutions in a pretty straightforward way - without going deep into purely developer or programming topics.

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Paweł A.

Advisory Systems Engineer and Presales, Dell Technologies

The course is targeted for presales engineers, but I believe anyone interested in AI would benefit from it. Both the practical and theoretical parts are well-designed and provide knowledge that can be applied to everyday tasks.

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Jakub B.

Presales & Solution Architect in IT Infrastructure, TD Synnex

I left with a strong toolkit and a clear vision of how to leverage AI to improve efficiency and decision-making in complex technical workflows.

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Aleksander B.

Virtualization and Cloud Consultant

About Me

Karol Boguniewicz

Karol Boguniewicz

Founder, Lab Dot AI · ex-Dell Technologies

I’m Karol Boguniewicz. I spent 15+ years in enterprise IT - including almost 15 at EMC and Dell Technologies - helping build and sell the kind of products you’re probably reading RFPs about right now. About 7 of those years I spent in a regional presales role across EMEA, selling hybrid cloud solutions. So when I say I understand the pain of analyzing RFPs - especially the ones clearly optimized for a competitor - it’s because I was in your shoes.

In 2025 I led the team that won Dell Technologies’ internal AI Hackathon at the RTP campus in the US, against teams of experienced developers. I now run Lab Dot AI, where I teach Presales and Systems Engineers to use AI in ways that actually fit how they work.

NVIDIA Associate · AI Infrastructure NVIDIA Associate · GenAI & LLMs Google Cloud GenAI Leader Datalumina AI Engineer Expert
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If this doesn’t save you at least 2 hours on your next RFP first-pass, email me and I’ll refund the $17.
Keep the materials. No forms, no questions.

Faster RFPs
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Frequently Asked Questions

Isn’t this just a ChatGPT prompt? Can’t I find this on YouTube?
The prompt is part of it. The actual value is how it’s engineered and the document-prep step. Most “AI for RFPs” content online stops at “paste it into ChatGPT and ask for a summary.” It’s created typically by business analysts who have no clue how LLMs work, or how to analyze RFP requirements at a technical level. This is the workflow that takes over when that breaks.
Does this work with my company’s internal AI tool?
Yes. The workflow is tool-agnostic. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, your enterprise instance, or local models. The prompt and the document-prep approach are what matter, not the specific tool.
Why no RAG? Wouldn’t grounding the output in our knowledge base improve accuracy?
RAG-based RFP tools usually retrieve from outdated product docs, surface irrelevant snippets, or take months to set up and maintain properly. The playbook takes a different path: the pre-flight document conversion step grounds the LLM in your current product spec + the actual RFP for this deal - by context window, not retrieval. Simpler, faster, always current. If you want to bolt RAG on later, the workflow doesn’t get in the way - you just won’t need it on day one.
Will my RFP responses end up looking obviously AI-generated?
No. This is the first-pass review - extracting and triaging what’s in the RFP. Your actual responses are still yours. The output is a structured brief you use to plan, not text you submit.
Who is this not for?
If you’ve already built your own AI workflow that handles RFP triage in under 15 minutes with confidence in the output, you don’t need this. If you haven’t, you do.

One playbook. One hour.
Faster RFPs starting with the next one in your inbox.

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