An AutoRFP.ai alternative for source-based proposals
Compare two proposal and response workflows: Arc drafts from your client files and approved answers, while AutoRFP.ai provides an AI-first response platform with content management and team collaboration.
How does Gixo Arc compare with AutoRFP.ai?
Gixo Arc is an AutoRFP.ai alternative for agencies and consultants who need reviewable proposal drafts from briefs, scopes, RFPs, and past work. Arc combines approved-answer reuse, requirement owners, review gates, response-quality checks, and tracked delivery. AutoRFP.ai documents response generation, content management, collaboration, and integrations. Compare both with the same buyer questionnaire and source pack; neither a feature list nor an AI draft replaces your final review.
See what Arc helps your team review
Choose the proposal type, add the RFP, brief, notes, or prior work, then review a structured first draft before it reaches a client.
- 1Add source materialRFPs, briefs, notes, decks, and prior work
- 2Draft to the proposal typeSections and structure follow the real opportunity
- 3Review before deliveryYour team checks facts, scope, pricing, and commitments
Compare the proposal workflow and plan terms
| What to compare | Gixo Arc | AutoRFP.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Drafting and reuse | Source-file proposal drafts and approved-answer reuse | AI-first response generation and content management |
| Review workflow | Requirement owners, named review gates, and human approval | Team collaboration and response review |
| Buyer files | Response copies of supported Excel and Word questionnaires | Published Excel and Word response export; verify your exact buyer file |
| Pricing basis | Monthly plans differentiated by seats, features, and support | Scale at $899/month and Accelerate at $1,299/month, billed annually; custom Enterprise |
| Evaluation | No-card 14-day trial at Starter level | Demo-led evaluation; published plans have annual billing terms |
| Integrations | CRM stage push configured by Gixo and team-managed outgoing webhooks | Published CRM, content, API, webhook, and MCP integrations |
Vendor information checked on : AutoRFP.ai pricing · AutoRFP.ai platform · AutoRFP.ai integrations. Check current vendor terms before purchasing.
Which workflow fits your team?
Evaluate AutoRFP.ai if response-platform collaboration and its published integrations fit your team. Evaluate Arc if you want source-based proposal drafting alongside requirement review and tracked buyer delivery. Test the same input, approval process, buyer file, and integration requirements before choosing.
Where a generated draft leaves a price as a bracketed placeholder, Arc keeps it visibly unresolved, as [commercial amount: to be confirmed] in an English proposal and in the proposal's own language otherwise, so the draft analyzer and the response-quality review flag it as placeholder text instead of it reading like a finished sentence. A price the draft writes out is not checked against your files, so confirm every figure.
Questions before you choose
AutoRFP.ai comparison FAQ
Answers describe Arc's current workflow and the linked vendor information.Does AutoRFP.ai publish pricing?
Yes. AutoRFP.ai publishes Scale at $899 per month and Accelerate at $1,299 per month, billed annually, with unlimited users. Enterprise has custom pricing. These are annual billing terms, not month-to-month prices. Gixo Arc has monthly plans based on seats, features, and support; its Enterprise purchasing route is separate.
Can Arc return a buyer questionnaire?
When the buyer issues a structured questionnaire as an XLSX or DOCX file, Arc deterministically writes the answers from your response workspace into a copy of that file, leaving the file you uploaded unchanged and preserving the workbook formulas, styles, and layout as well as Word content controls and response-table cells. A direct export writes each answered requirement whatever its review status; only an approved release requires every answered active requirement to be approved first. A preflight previews every target before writing and blocks on protected sheets, formula cells, merged cells, dropdown values the buyer does not allow, missing required or scored answers, and conflicting requirements, so a person still runs the final check and submits.
Do all Arc exports require approved answers?
No. A direct questionnaire export can include answered requirements that have not been approved. An approved release requires every answered active requirement to be approved and each approved review gate to match the current revision. Your team checks the buyer file and owns submission.
How does proposal acceptance differ from signing?
On a tracked link, the buyer can accept the proposal by entering a full name and a business email. The acceptance appears in your delivery history, and the proposal workspace keeps an acceptance record of that name and email, the time, and the proposal revision it covers. Where electronic signature is enabled, the buyer can choose Accept and sign instead, and Arc then emails them a request to sign the accepted proposal. When the link shares a reviewed proposal edition, the buyer can also record a question or next-action suggestion for your team without changing that edition. Acceptance on its own is a recorded response, not a signature.
What kind of electronic signature does Arc support?
Arc includes native simple electronic signature: a frozen PDF snapshot, named signers on tokenized links, typed-name adoption, and a sealed PDF with an audit certificate. It is not a qualified or certificate-based digital signature.
Can my team connect a CRM itself?
Arc can push the stage, close date, and amount of a proposal to a linked Salesforce opportunity, HubSpot deal, or Pipedrive deal once Gixo has configured a connection for your organization on its servers. Your team cannot connect a CRM itself, so Arc does not provide self-serve automated CRM sync. Your team can add outgoing webhooks from the proposal workspace, which send signed proposal events to Zapier, Make, or your own endpoint.
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