Yes. VisibleThread integrates seamlessly with both SharePoint and Microsoft Word. Teams can connect to SharePoint to securely access documents stored in your environment, ensuring a single source of truth for proposals, content libraries, and past performance data. VisibleThread also provides a Microsoft Word Add-In, allowing writers and SMEs to analyse, score, and improve documents directly inside Word without changing their workflow. Together, these integrations enable faster reviews, consistent writing standards, and secure adoption across your organization.
RFP Platform Overview
Streamlining the
Entire RFP Lifecycle
Supporting Capture, Business Development, Proposal, and Contracts Teams, All in One Secure Platform
15+ years trusted in sensitive bids, now with the speed of AI
Benefits of Using VisibleThread
Increased Speed and Efficiency
Automate manual efforts and move seamlessly across the entire RFP lifecycle. From opportunity analysis to proposal creation, in one unified platform.
Improved Quality
Ensure consistent, high-quality responses by leveraging AI, past work, quality checks, watchwords, and acronym management.
Reduced Risk
Identify and flag risky terms to ensure compliance and consistency, eliminating human error.
Enhanced Collaboration
Streamline teamwork for sales and bid teams with shared AI prompts, documents, and requirement shredding in one secure location.
Bid Centralization
Create a single source of truth by centralizing content, integrating opportunities, and connecting to internal systems like SharePoint for faster access.
Better Win Rates
Win more business with AI-powered, data-backed insights that accelerate responses, improve quality, and reduce risk.
Capabilities
The Full RFP Lifecycle
in One Platform
in One Platform
Opportunity Qualification
Find and manage opportunities in one place
Integrates directly with SAM.gov, and other trusted sources. Review and track opportunities from a central dashboard so your team never misses a fit.
Opportunity Search
Identify, filter, and surface high-value RFPs aligned to strategic objectives. Automate manual search tasks, minimize missed opportunities, and ensure BD teams focus only on winnable work. Learn More 
Bid / No-Bid Decision Making
Make informed pursuit decisions using structured criteria, historical benchmarks, alignment to pipeline goals, and evidence-based scoring. Reduce subjective decisions and increase win rate.
Technical Analysis
Leverage past contracts, solutions, and technical documentation to evaluate the technical feasibility of a new opportunity. Ensure alignment between offering, requirements, and pricing strategy.
SWOT Analysis
Assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for every bid. Standardise structured assessments to improve early decision-making and reduce pursuit of low-probability opportunities.
Competitive Analysis
Understand the competitive landscape early — positioning, capabilities, differentiators, win/loss indicators. Equip teams with data-backed insights to shape capture strategy and messaging.
Proposal Management
Orchestrate your proposal process with ease
Review opportunities based on past performance, market alignment, and technical requirements. Get AI-driven insights at every stage, grounded in evidence, so you know exactly which opportunities to pursue.
Proposal Kanban Board
Gain a complete, real-time view of proposal progress. Track ownership, deadlines, dependencies, and bottlenecks across teams for smoother and more predictable delivery.
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External Collaboration Support
Export tailored views and controlled documents to SMEs, subcontractors, and leadership. Reduce back-and-forth emails and maintain a single source of truth for reviews.
SharePoint Connectivity
Link to SharePoint to instantly access previous proposals, artefacts, past performance, and technical content. Reduce search time and avoid version drift.
Achieving Single Tone of Voice
Ensure consistent, compelling language across writers and sections. Apply organizational style and brand guidelines automatically to elevate quality and create a cohesive voice.
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Acronyms Checks
Expand, verify, and standardize acronyms for clarity and compliance. Remove ambiguity and ensure evaluators understand every term without guesswork.
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Risk Management
Eliminate risks before they derail your bid
Quickly create compliance matrices, export to Excel, and compare solicitation amendments with precision. Spot missing requirements, flow-down clauses, or scope changes before they impact your proposal.
Compliance Matrices
Achieve 100% accurate, traceable requirement identification. Map requirements to responses, highlight gaps, and ensure full compliance early, long before final submission.
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Amendment Handling
Track changes from amendments with precision. Update responses, version control, and compliance matrices instantly to reduce errors and missed modifications.
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Gap Analysis
Identify missing content, weak sections, and areas requiring SME reinforcement. Strengthen proposals proactively before review cycles.
Redlining
Identify contractual, technical, and business risks in seconds. Surface liabilities, conflicts, and inconsistencies that would otherwise be overlooked during manual review.
Remove Risky Language
Detect vague, non-compliant, ambiguous, or liability-creating phrasing. Replace risky text with clear, accurate, evaluable language aligned to requirements.
Bid Creation & Editing
Draft using past documents
VisibleThread’s Bid Writing functionality transforms how teams draft, refine, and align proposal content.
AI Prompting
Generate accurate, grounded content tailored to each requirement using deterministic AI. Ensure every response is traceable to policies, past performance, and organizational knowledge.
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Integration with SharePoint
Access your entire document library directly from within the platform. Pull prior answers, technical details, SMEs notes, and past performances into new responses without searching manually.
MS Word Add-in
Analyse, edit, score, and improve proposals directly inside Microsoft Word. Reduce context switching and bring AI assistance into the environment writers use daily.
Score Readability
Measure clarity, complexity, and grade level for every sentence and section. Improve evaluator comprehension and ensure plain-language compliance standards are met.
Remove Passive Voice
Strengthen messaging by converting passive phrasing into active, direct, high-impact language. Reinforce customer focus and demonstrate ownership and capability.
Security & Compliance
Secure Deployment for
Regulated Environments
15+ years trusted in sensitive bids, now with the speed of AI.
Trusted by industry leaders, VisibleThread ensures complete data privacy, protection, and scalability to fit any business size. Deployment is straightforward, your team can be fully operational within 24 hours.
SOC 2
CMMC
NIST
FIPS
GDPR
Deployment Options
Customer-Hosted:
On-Premises
Built for SCIFs and air-gapped environments, this deployment offers full physical control for classified operations. It installs on Windows or Red Hat, including bare metal, and is fully customer-managed for complete data sovereignty.
Meets your CMMC 2 obligations.
Customer-Hosted:
Private Cloud
Built for regulated industries, Customers deploy and manage to their private cloud. This setup offers full administrative control with dedicated resources and isolation, deployable to private clouds like Azure GCC High or AWS FedRAMP environments.
Meets your CMMC 2 obligations.
VT US GovCloud -
Single Tenant
VisibleThread GovCloud aligns with U.S. federal cybersecurity standards, including CMMC 2, FIPS, and NIST SP 800-171. Hosted in AWS GovCloud (US) at the FedRAMP High level, it provides a secure platform for U.S. government contractors, with U.S. citizen support and FIPS 140-2 encryption for all data and Communications.
VisibleThread
Cloud
Ideal for non-regulated industries, this secure, scalable cloud deployment offers instant access with no setup or maintenance. Managed by VisibleThread, it delivers continuous updates, high availability, and reliable performance for fast, simple deployment.
“VisibleThread revolutionizes how you review a contract. What once took hours of copying and highlighting is now prepped in seconds.”
Jennifer Alvarado,
Contract Administrator - Parker Hannifin Aerospace
“VisibleThread shows you exactly what changed between versions. Instantly spot modifications and confirm every requested update.”
Deena Aeron,
Contracts Manager at Moog, Inc.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
How does VisibleThread ensure security and compliance for regulated industries and government contractors?
VisibleThread meets major industry and federal cybersecurity standards including SOC 2, CMMC, NIST 800-171, FIPS 140-2, and GDPR. For U.S. federal contractors, we offer a single-tenant GovCloud deployment hosted in AWS GovCloud (US) with U.S.-citizen support. Customers in highly regulated or classified environments can also run VisibleThread fully on-premises or in their private cloud to maintain complete data control.
What deployment options does VisibleThread offer for secure or air-gapped environments?
VisibleThread supports four deployment models:
- Customer-Hosted On-Premises for SCIFs and air-gapped networks
- Customer-Hosted Private Cloud, including Azure GCC High & AWS FedRAMP
- VT US GovCloud – Single Tenant for U.S. GovCon and federal teams
- VisibleThread Cloud for commercial, non-regulated industries
Each option is designed to meet unique security, sovereignty, and compliance needs.
How does VisibleThread’s AI differ from generative AI tools like ChatGPT or CoPilot?
VisibleThread uses deterministic, traceable AI, meaning every suggestion or generated answer is grounded in your own documents, past performance, dictionaries, and compliance criteria. No customer data is used for model training, and outputs are fully auditable—making it safe for GovCon, Defence, Healthcare, and other regulated industries.
Does VisibleThread integrate with SharePoint and Microsoft Word?
What RFP and proposal lifecycle stages does VisibleThread support?
VisibleThread supports the full RFP lifecycle, including:
- Opportunity Search, Competitive Analysis & SWOT
- Bid/No-Bid Decisions and Scoring
- Proposal Management & SME Collaboration
- Compliance Matrices, Gap Analysis, Amendment Handling
- Redlining & Risk Language Removal
- AI-assisted Content Creation, Readability Scoring, and Editing
Buyers often search for “end-to-end RFP platforms” or “full-lifecycle proposal tools,” and VisibleThread is built to cover every stage.
How quickly can my organization get started with VisibleThread?
Most teams can be fully operational within 24 hours on the VisibleThread Cloud.
For GovCloud, private cloud, or on-premises deployments, installation timelines vary depending on customer environment, access requirements, and security policies. Our implementation team provides onboarding, user training, and support for validated, compliant setup in regulated settings.
See how VisibleThread transforms your RFP process.