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VisibleThread

Score8 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is VisibleThread?

VisibleThread RFP Platform is an end-to-end pursuit intelligence solution purpose-built for organizations operating in highly regulated sectors like defense, government contracting, and aerospace. The platform leverages a unique combination of deterministic analysis and traceable AI to automate the most complex phases of the proposal lifecycle. Unlike generic tools, VisibleThread provides deep linguistic and structural insights, allowing teams to "shred" documents for compliance, track amendments across versions, and draft technical responses grounded in their own verified past performance data.

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Screenshot of RFP Software for Analyzing Solicitations and Contracts​. This automates tedious, manual doc review steps and improve quality throughout the lifecycle.
Screenshot of the Shred Compliance Matrix with Simple Shred. Shreds RFPs and SOWs for words like: “WILL”, “SHALL”, “MUST”, and any other custom keywords.
Screenshot of Extract Acronyms, the tool used to check for acronym usage. This scans documents to identify incorrect and inconsistent use of acronyms or acronyms defined in different ways.

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Screenshot of RFP Software for Analyzing Solicitations and Contracts​. This automates tedious, manual doc review steps and improve quality throughout the lifecycle.

Consultant's experience using VisibleThread VT Writer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use VisibleThread VT Writer to review our internal knowledge base documentation and also external communications going to clients or advisors. We use it to make sure we are speaking in active voice. We also use it to simplify our language/limit run-on sentences so that users internally can quickly grasp processes and clients can easily understand our communications.

Pros

  • Provides a grade level for the complexity of your writing
  • Quickly identifies long sentences and passive voice
  • Provides alternatives to complex words

Cons

  • More automation, other software in this space is able to completely rewrite content and even provide multiple iterations at once
  • Ability to tailor results and desired output based on target audience, i.e. desired grade level might vary based on audience
  • Would be nice if VT can start writing content based on bullet points, again more automation

Most Important Features

  • Identifying passive voice
  • Identifying long sentences
  • Identifying complex words and providing suggestions

Return on Investment

  • It has made our content more readable
  • It makes us sound relevant to our clients
  • Ensures the content everyone writes is consistent

Alternatives Considered

Wordtune

Other Software Used

Miro, Pega Platform, Microsoft Teams

Have VisibleThread - and Have Better Proposal Writing

Pros

  • Acronym finder - the best acronym finder I have used! This creates an Excel spreadsheet with the acronyms and their definitions in an alphabetically sorted worksheet ... AND this worksheet includes actual sentences from the document showing how and where the acronym was used.
  • Compare documents - WOW! what a wonderful update! You get an Excel worksheet with the 2 compared documents side-by-side showing differences in red and statements with no changes in blue.
  • Starter compliance matrix (SCM) - again, one of the best SCM-creators I have used. This choice is quick, concise, and the resulting Excel worksheet is easy to manipulate and change.

Cons

  • Dictionaries - I would like to see more "canned" dictionaries. We create our own, but I know that VT has more that they can supply, giving us more quick turnaround changes (versus always having to start from scratch).

Return on Investment

  • We reduced proposal writing time and output. By reducing time, we gained time for work in other areas of proposal handling. I used to need 3-5 DAYS to create an acronym list. Now, with VT, I do the same work in 1-2 hours!
  • VT is for proposal WRITING and not for proposal HANDLING. Our proposal managers and coordinators do the handling part.