PRESENDER FOR ARCHITECTURE

Win the project before the
first meeting.

Every architecture firm responds to the same RFP with the same portfolio PDF. Presender builds a proposal that shows the client you already understand their site, their program, and their vision — before you’ve even met.

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THE PROBLEM

Your portfolio is stunning.
Your proposals look like everyone else’s.

The shortlist isn’t decided in the interview. It’s decided when the committee opens your proposal and sees the same PDF every other firm sent.

Same portfolio, different cover page

You have 40 projects in your portfolio. The client sees all 40 — including the ones that have nothing to do with their brief. The residential work confuses the commercial client. The commercial work bores the cultural client.

Proposals eat design time

Your architects should be designing, not formatting InDesign proposals at midnight. Each RFP response takes 2–4 hours of layout work for content that’s 80% the same as the last one.

Submitted and silence

You submit the proposal and hear nothing for 3 weeks. Were you shortlisted? Did they compare your fee structure? Did the committee even open the PDF? You wait and wonder.

HOW IT WORKS

One template per project type.
Every proposal tailored to the brief.

STEP · 01

Build your practice profile

Upload your portfolio, team credentials, project sheets, awards, methodology docs. The interview captures your design philosophy, your differentiation, your best project stories.

~15 MIN · ONCE

STEP · 02

Create a template per project type

Residential template. Commercial offices template. Cultural + public template. Each one highlights the right projects and speaks the right design language.

~3 MIN PER TEMPLATE

STEP · 03

Tailor per client

TEMPLATE: Insert the client name, site location, program brief, budget range. Select the 3 portfolio projects closest to their brief. 2 minutes. Free.

SPOTLIGHT: Paste the client’s website or developer’s site. Presender reads their previous projects, their values, their aesthetic — and positions your firm as the match. 2 minutes. 1 credit.

~2 MIN PER PROPOSAL

STEP · 04

See who’s evaluating your firm

Know when the selection committee opens your proposal, which projects they study longest, and whether they forwarded it to the client’s board. Time your follow-up to peak interest.

LIVE · ALWAYS

THE DIFFERENCE

What committees see today
vs. what they could see.

Inbox · BEFORE

Portfolio — Waterfront Development RFP

Please find our portfolio and credentials for the Waterfront Development RFP.

PDF StudioName-Portfolio-2026.pdf · 12 MB

Same 40-project PDF for every RFP.

PREPARED FOR LIMINAL GROUP AFTER

Liminal Group · Waterfront Development

Three projects that share Liminal’s vision for mixed-use urban waterfront design.

Tracked link · 9 slides · Built in 2 minutes

Only the relevant projects. Built in 2 minutes.

SPOTLIGHT DEMO

Paste the developer’s website.
Propose like you studied their portfolio.

PASTED URL liminalgroup.dev

You run an architecture practice. The RFP came from a property developer. We pasted liminalgroup.dev. In 2 minutes, Presender:

✓ Identified their focus on sustainable residential
✓ Referenced their recent waterfront project by name
✓ Matched 3 portfolio projects with similar briefs
✓ Highlighted our sustainability credentials
✓ Framed our design approach using their own language about “community-centered living”

The right portfolio, for the right client. Without your team formatting at midnight.

PREPARED FOR LIMINAL · COVER 01

A waterfront proposal that extends Liminal’s community-centered work.

Mixed-use, sustainable, designed around the people who’ll live there. Same values you brought to Marina Quarter — at twice the scale.

Slide 1 of 9 · Cover Liminal Group

PORTFOLIO · MATCHED TO BRIEF 04

Three projects, all waterfront, all mixed-use.

Out of 40 projects we’ve shown you the 3 that share your program and your sustainability targets. The other 37 are in the appendix.

Slide 4 of 9 · Portfolio Liminal Group

CASE · HARBOUR ROW 07

1,200 homes. Net-zero operational. Delivered on schedule.

Harbour Row: same scale, same waterfront constraints. Same partnership model with the developer that you’d use here.

Slide 7 of 9 · Proof Liminal Group

PROPOSAL INTELLIGENCE

Know which firms
you’re competing against.

A 12 MB PDF disappears into the committee’s inbox. A Presender link tells you who opened it, which projects they studied, when forwarded copies are opened, and the moment the developer came back.

The shortlist signal

Your proposal was opened by 5 different people at the developer’s office. That’s not one person skimming — that’s a selection committee reviewing your firm. You made the shortlist.

The portfolio deep-dive

When someone spends 4 minutes on your residential project pages and skips the commercial ones, they’re validating that you can do their type of work. Your follow-up should lead with residential.

The fee check

The client returned to your proposal 3 times in one week — and spent the most time on the fee structure page. They’re comparing your rates. Call and discuss value before they decide on price alone.

Liminal Group · proposal shared with 5 viewers presender.app/p/liminal-waterfront

OPENS

committee

TIME ON FEES

4:02

returned 3x

FORWARDS

board

AVG. SESSION

6:18

per viewer

TIME PER SLIDE

01 · Cover