Inventive AI (YC S23) — AI agents for RFP and questionnaire response automation
Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & questionnaire response management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows. Core benefits and features: - 10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses: Using Inventive’s proprietary AI-system you can get first drafts 10 times faster, with accurate responses rooted in your knowledge sources, that you and your team can collaborate on to refine. - Single Hub for All Your Knowledge Sources: Inventive offers a centralized hub for all your knowledge sources.
Inventive AI is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI Agents For RFP and Questionnaire Response Automation. The founders listed are Dhiren Bhatia (Founder), Vishakh Hegde (Founder/CTO), Gaurav Nemade (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, June 26, 2023).
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Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & questionnaire response management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
Core benefits and features:
- 10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses: Using Inventive’s proprietary AI-system you can get first drafts 10 times faster, with accurate responses rooted in your knowledge sources, that you and your team can collaborate on to refine.
- Single Hub for All Your Knowledge Sources: Inventive offers a centralized hub for all your knowledge sources. You can upload previous RFPs and relevant documents; integrate with your internal data systems such as gDrive. Sharepoint & more; upload Q&A from legacy tools or spreadsheets; and even add information from your websites.
- Fight Stale Content With AI Content Manager: Inventive’s AI content manager proactively flags conflicting content by identifying issues within your sources, so you only use fresh and relevant content in your responses.
- Higher Productivity & Competitive Advantage With AI Agents: Inventive offers a suite of AI agents designed to boost productivity and give you a competitive advantage. These agents can help with researching competitors, brainstorming ideas, and more.
Built by a customer-obsessed team comprising an ex-exec from a Fortune 500 company and ex-AI team from Google & Stanford. Backed by top Silicon Valley investors including YCombinator.
Dhiren Bhatia
Founder
Vishakh Hegde
Founder/CTO
Gaurav Nemade
Founder
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