VisibleThread Product Updates – What’s shipping, most recent first

Collaboration, built in

Comments, owners and an audit trail across BD, capture, proposals and contracts.

• Comment on the paragraph you are reading@mention whoever needs to see it, and the thread stays logged against that line.
• Clear ownershipAssign an opportunity, a proposal or a contract to an owner. Once drafting starts, every section in the outline carries its own owner and status.
• A full activity logSearchable and exportable to CSV. It shows who ran what, on every document, by every user, across BD, capture, proposals and contracts.
• Due date notificationsFilter notifications to due dates so nothing slips past its deadline unnoticed.

Currency management and safe editing

Consistent values, and no overwritten work.

• Currency managementSet a workspace default currency and maintain your own conversion rates. Converted values now roll up on Kanban cards, dashboard totals and Excel exports.
• Multi-user editing conflict protectionWhen the same document is open in Word and in the web app at once, VisibleThread tracks document version identity, shows who is actively editing, and blocks a save that is not based on the latest version, rather than letting one person's work overwrite another's.

Archive reasons, security and fixes

Version 7.3 housekeeping, including SSO for federal environments.

• Reasons for archivingArchiving an opportunity, proposal or contract now asks for a reason, configured by your organization (a no-bid decision, for example). It is preserved through unarchive and re-archive, so months later someone can still see why a pursuit was dropped.
• Add-in co-authoringFixed, alongside the SharePoint co-authoring that already worked in browser Word.
• Encrypted SAML assertionsFixed, including RSA-OAEP under strict Java FIPS mode. Relevant for any federal or DoD-adjacent SSO setup.
• Dozens of smaller fixesAcross the Word add-in, opportunities and reporting.

Proposal outline, rebuilt around traceability

Every section shows the requirements behind it.

The old outline gave you a structure but no evidence behind it, and no practical way for a reviewer to judge whether it was right.

Generation now detects the document type first, then classifies each paragraph by requirement type before building the outline. A trace indicator shows which sections carry traced requirements. The redesigned Coverage tab gives reverse traceability, from a single requirement to every section that answers it.

Section ownership and status cascade down to sub-sections, so a capture lead can see who owns a section and where it stands without having to ask.

Capture pipeline: Kanban boards and stage gates

One board for tracked opportunities and proposals.

Tracked opportunities and proposals now run on the same Kanban board, with configurable stages and drag-and-drop moves. Between every stage sits a gate.

• Soft gatesPrompt on a move but allow it, with a note if skipped.
• Hard gatesBlock the move until the required questions are answered.
• Audit historyEvery crossing is recorded. No card moves quietly.

Dashboards and reporting

A live view of the numbers for BD and proposal teams.

• Capture dashboardPipeline value by customer, pipeline funnel and best-fit spread.
• Proposal dashboardTotal value by stage, section status and assignment.
• Usage StatsMoved into the primary navigation, with a full breakdown by area and by user, filterable and exportable to CSV.
• SharePoint grounding for CollectionsPoint a Collection at a SharePoint library and it re-indexes automatically when those files update.

A quieter update followed a week later, mostly fixes, to keep it all steady under real use.

Visi for RFIs and security questionnaires

Answers drafted and cited in about ten minutes.

Visi got a rework on one of the most repetitive jobs in GovCon. The old way was to open the questionnaire, open your last three good responses, and start copying: find, copy, paste, repeat forty times, two to three days per response.

How the new way works

It starts with a Collection: your approved past responses, pulled live from SharePoint, current by definition. Attach the questionnaire as it arrived and point Visi at the Collection. Visi asks the right questions first, before it writes a word:

• How detailed should each answer be?
• Table, or plain question and answer?
• Executive or technical audience?

Every answer comes back cited to source. Click the citation and see the exact paragraph it was drawn from.

You still read every answer and validate every citation. That part of the job does not go away. What changes is where you start: ten minutes drafted and cited, instead of two to three days of find and replace.

Listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace

A certified cloud option for federal customers and their supply chain.

VisibleThread is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace, the official directory maintained by the General Services Administration where cloud providers demonstrate compliance with FedRAMP security standards. FedRAMP authorization means the cloud environment has been independently assessed against NIST 800-53 security controls and approved for federal use, which removes the security review burden from individual agency procurement teams.

Deployment options

• FedRAMP GovCloudA secure cloud environment for customers who prefer not to host the platform themselves.
• Customer-hosted on-premisesIncluding air-gapped and SCIF deployments, for total data sovereignty inside your own firewalls.
• Customer-hosted private cloudDedicated, isolated instances, typically on Azure GCC High or AWS GovCloud (US).
• Public cloud (multi-tenant)Managed by VisibleThread, with continuous updates and high availability.

On-premises and air-gapped options are not changing. FedRAMP GovCloud sits alongside them, and every option gives you the same platform and the same security posture. All of them are available today.

Read more: VisibleThread Now Listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace. You can verify the listing and current certifications at the trust center.