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RocketDocs and the expensive art of repeating yourself
The same question keeps arriving in a different spreadsheet. RocketDocs turns approved answers into reusable assets, with private AI and a paper trail for the people who must stand behind them.
The $540 Million Lesson Hidden in a Spreadsheet
Procurement software had plenty of features and almost no affection. Four founders discovered that the real rival was not another platform, but the spreadsheet people quietly preferred - then sold the remedy to Workday for roughly $540 million.
Michael Londgren Is Teaching Enterprise Marketing to Sound Human Again
After helping DocuSign and Seismic widen the categories around their products, Michael Londgren gave RFPIO a new name. His latest campaign is more difficult: making AI-assisted business communication feel considered, specific and unmistakably human.
Responsive
Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is an AI-powered strategic response management platform that helps sales, proposal, and security teams answer RFPs, RFIs, security questionnaires, and due diligence requests faster and more accurately. Founded in 2015 in Beaverton, Oregon, it serves roughly 2,000 customers - including more than 20% of the Fortune 500 - and hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, combining a centralized content library with generative AI agents that draft and quality-check responses.
Hazel
Hazel is a New York-based startup building AI-native software for U.S. government procurement. Its platform helps state, local, and federal agencies define requirements, draft solicitations (RFPs, RFQs, RFBs), run market research, and evaluate vendor responses in one place - compressing a process that often takes months into days while keeping agencies compliant. Founded in 2024 by Harvard classmates August Chen and Elton Lossner and backed by Y Combinator, Hazel counts the City of Dallas, City of Atlanta, PhilaPort, and the U.S. Air Force among its early adopters.
August Chen
August Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Hazel, a Y Combinator-backed startup building AI-native procurement software for U.S. federal, state, and local government. A Harvard mechanical engineering and computer science graduate who built wildfire-prevention software at Palantir, Chen now aims his company at the $2.7 trillion public procurement market, helping overworked civil servants draft compliant solicitations in five minutes instead of five months. Hazel counts customers from K-12 school districts to the U.S. Navy and, in 2025, signed the City of Dallas as the first major Texas city to adopt AI for procurement.
Priori
Priori is a New York legal technology company that helps in-house legal departments find, hire, and manage outside counsel and flexible legal talent. Through a vetted marketplace, data-driven RFP software, and an AI assistant called Scout, Priori turns the messy, relationship-driven process of buying legal services into something measurable - cutting outside-counsel spend and search time for clients ranging from startups to the Fortune 500.