Open Settings → Proposals & pricing. These settings affect new drafts and bids; review stored drafts separately.

1. Under Bid pricing, select a strategy and review its percentage controls. Then choose tone, formality and point of view under Writing style. Add voice notes and a sample proposal that reflect how you actually write.
2. Choose Writing strategy. Profile-grounded proof limits experience claims to supplied profile facts. UpDemon winning format uses the original quantified proof approach. Check generated claims before sending either kind.
3. Add Drafting instructions. Expand Writing rules & examples to configure suggested and banned openers, closers and phrases one per line.
4. Set an optional Artefact link, humor, terminology mirroring, contractions, exclamations and reading level.
5. Recheck additional markup, scope buffer and minimum share of budget as percentages. These settings affect future live drafts as well as proposal tests.
6. Select Save proposal settings. Follow Test a proposal with saved settings to compare a draft before using the new policy in your workflow.

Understand the price controls

Posted budget with price floors anchors pricing to the posted budget or an estimate and applies the relevant price floors. UpDemon aggressive low uses its bid posture. The pipeline’s Minimum job value remains a separate eligibility check.

Additional markup (%) is padding: 50 adds 50% at that step, rather than offering half the anchor. Scope buffer (%) adds further padding multiplicatively. Minimum share of budget (%) prevents a bid dropping below the selected percentage of a posted budget; zero disables that floor. Read the strategy-specific help before combining these controls.

The final proposal preview is the place to confirm the actual amount. A saved strategy does not replace that review. For screening, timing, boosts and model choices, use AI and automation rules.

What it looks like

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