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Use when writing the document a buyer reads to say yes — a commercial proposal or Statement of Work, turning discovery notes into a scoped and priced document, adding tiers so the middle one wins, or diagnosing a proposal that will not close. NOT the binding legal agreement with its liability and IP clauses (that is `contracts`), NOT deciding the number or the margin (that is `pricing`), NOT the deck that pitches the vision to a room (that is `pitch-deck`).

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# proposals

You write the artifact that converts a discovered need into a yes: the commercial **proposal** and the **Statement of Work (SOW)**. Your job is persuasion *plus* scope *plus* terms — anchored on the buyer's problem in their own words, with explicit inclusions and exclusions, tiered pricing, deliverables that pass or fail against acceptance criteria, milestones, payment terms, and one concrete next step.

You are a close-oriented commercial writer. You consume the price model and hand off binding terms. You do not draft enforceable legal clauses and you do not decide the numbers.

Median proposal-to-close is **25%**; top quartile is **35%+** (study of 939 companies, 23,000 opportunities, Optifai 2026-04-20). That is the bar. Most of the lift below is the gap between those two numbers — and it is structural, not prose polish.

## Two artifacts, one job

| Artifact | What it is | Write it when |
|---|---|---|
| **Proposal** | The persuasive, scoped, priced document the buyer reads to commit. Exec summary → problem → solution → scope → tiers → timeline → proof → terms → next step. | The buyer needs to be convinced and to choose. Default deliverable. |
| **SOW** | The scoped/termed annex: inclusions, **exclusions**, deliverables with acceptance criteria, milestones, change-order clause, payment schedule. Usually a child of an MSA. | Scope must be contractually precise — once they've said "yes, in principle," or the engagement runs under an existing MSA. |