Taro reads your RFP, finds the code conflicts, flags commercial and timeline risk, and drafts your clarification questions. Every finding cites a real section.
Three pursuits we ran through Taro — three different finding types. Cards below.
The RFP specifies Class III RCP as the minimum pipe class for diameters 24″ and under. Applicable §SD-401 requires Class IV pipe wherever cover depth is less than 3 ft. Profile sheets show cover depths of 2.1 to 2.8 ft at sta. 14+50 through 18+20 — Class IV would govern at those locations.
The traffic control specification cites both the base manual (40-ft device spacing) and the local supplement (20-ft spacing in school and park zones). The RFP does not state which standard governs where they differ. The corridor passes two school zones, where the stricter standard would double the device count.
The contract specifies $2,500 per calendar day in liquidated damages on a project with a $890K base. Comparable public-works projects in the $0.5–1.0M range typically carry $400 to $600 per day. The bid risk premium implied by this clause is roughly 5× the segment norm.
Each module is independent and idempotent. Re-run the conflict detector without re-OCR’ing the PDF. Swap a prompt without re-shredding requirements. The pursuit pins the corpus version it was analyzed against — old reviews never silently change.
Taro is named after the root vegetable. Long underground tubers, broad leaves above. What’s under the surface usually matters more.
Pre-bid review is the work that always slips.
A senior engineer reads two hundred pages on a Sunday, marks the conflicts, drafts the clarification questions, and hopes nothing got through. Patient, expensive, easy to postpone — exactly the kind of work software should already be doing.
The hard part isn’t the reading. It’s that pre-bid review is the most expensive thing your firm does that nobody invoices for. So it gets pushed to Sunday, or skipped, and what you missed shows up later. Taro reads everything, asks the clarifications you would have asked, and hands you the file before the deadline.
I kept Taro narrow on purpose. Pre-bid review only. The rest can wait.
Aftab
Founder & CEO
A boutique firm pursues 20 to 50 RFPs a year. Every pursuit takes eight to fifteen hours of senior-engineer pre-bid review — work the firm absorbs at senior rates, work that shows up nowhere on the invoice.
The Firm tier pays itself back on the third pursuit. After that, every pursuit is found money.
Senior rate $250/hr · Firm tier $699/mo · Math holds at 20 pursuits/yr or above.
Book a call — we’ll show Taro on a sample pursuit, then ship you a 14-day workspace with your own login. Run real RFPs on your own documents for two weeks, then decide whether it stays. Solo and Firm bill monthly; Select is by quote.
Solo principals & two-person shops
Boutique firms, 10–30 staff
Pursuit-heavy or higher-stakes firms
30 minutes on the phone — we walk Taro on a sample pursuit, then ship you a 14-day workspace with your own login. Run real RFPs on your own documents.
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