{"id":156011,"date":"2025-03-25T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/angel-investor\/how-ai-software-may-help-msps-to-automate-request-for-proposal-rfp-responses-and-more-channel-angels\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:08:28","slug":"how-ai-software-may-help-msps-to-automate-request-for-proposal-rfp-responses-and-more-channel-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=156011","title":{"rendered":"How AI Software May Help MSPs to Automate Request for Proposal (RFP) Responses And More \u2014 Channel Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5d51cedb1d3e9e0001c64b1b\/1742918775091-6YOPU8K5K45WQQJ819XJ\/Iris.png?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Still, there are signs of progress in the startup software market. Chief among them: <a href=\"https:\/\/heyiris.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Take a look at IRIS<\/strong><\/a>, a \u201ccollaborative platform that gets more useful the more often that people use it,\u201d according to the New York-based startup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In some ways, IRIS sounds like an AI documentation platform that could potentially disrupt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itglue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>IT Glue<\/strong><\/a> (owned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaseya.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kaseya<\/strong><\/a>). But take a closer look, and IRIS could be so much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">How so? The software allows you to create content or upload existing content into a so-called Knowledge Map. <a href=\"https:\/\/heyiris.ai\/about-iris\/how-to-launch-iris-ai-enterprise-ai-platform\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Example Knowledge Maps<\/strong><\/a>, according to IRIS, include:<\/p>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Procurement resources:<\/strong> Contract templates, RFP responses, Security documentation (i.e SOC2 report), Privacy Policy, GDPR statement<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marketing content:<\/strong> webinar transcripts, blog posts, email copy, attribution data<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Product requirements:<\/strong> User stories, acceptance criteria, QA checklists, user feedback<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Sales collateral:<\/strong> Proposals, pitch decks, RFP responses, meeting transcripts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Once you create and populate a Knowledge Map with your content, you can ask questions by chatting with tagged content, generate new documents, and create presentations, IRIS asserts. Among the prime use cases: <a href=\"https:\/\/heyiris.ai\/save-time-by-automating-security-questionnaires-with-ai\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Iris allows users to respond to RFPs<\/strong><\/a> (requests for proposals) and security questionnaires in an automated and rapid way, according to early adopters such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.class.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Class Technologies<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Iris Raises Funding, And\u2026<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">True believers in Iris include <a href=\"https:\/\/rewst.io\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rewst<\/strong><\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aharon-chernin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Aharon Chernin<\/strong><\/a>, along with investment firms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridafunders.com\/resources\/news\/florida-funders-invests-in-ai-powered-rfp-automation-platform-iris\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Florida Funders and Naples Technology Ventures<\/strong><\/a>. Through Florida Funders, multiple Channel Angels participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/inno\/stories\/fundings\/2025\/02\/11\/florida-funders-iris.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Iris funding round<\/strong><\/a>, which was announced in February 2025. Fast forward to March 2025, and Iris CEO Ben Hills celebrated an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/benjaminhills_absolutely-incredible-week-cutting-the-ribbon-activity-7306388707379458048-1MD7?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAB09SIBUvVVuA1fFixlK9O6AI9P00Q8eyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>office ribbon cutting<\/strong><\/a> in Manhattan, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, there are signs of progress in the startup software market. Chief among them: Take a look at IRIS, a \u201ccollaborative platform that gets more useful the more often that people use it,\u201d according to the New York-based startup. In some ways, IRIS sounds like an AI documentation platform that could potentially disrupt IT Glue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12034],"tags":[2214,11289,4552,48178,2596,14003,33529,64436,11345],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-156011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angel-investor","tag-angels","tag-automate","tag-channel","tag-msps","tag-proposal","tag-request","tag-responses","tag-rfp","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How AI Software May Help MSPs to Automate Request for Proposal (RFP) Responses And More \u2014 Channel Angels - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=156011\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How AI Software May Help MSPs to Automate Request for Proposal (RFP) Responses And More \u2014 Channel Angels - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Still, there are signs of progress in the startup software market. 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