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Hosted by Christina Godfrey Carter · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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We speak to proposal and revenue leaders about how to win competitive Requests for Proposals. We’re the intelligence network for modern proposal and capture professionals, bringing clarity, community, and competitive advantage to a space overloaded with bad advice.
Christina Godfrey Carter hosts The Stargazy Brief: Proposals & RFP Win Strategy, a business show with 29 episodes published.
You can't blame a solution consultant for losing an RFP they never had the power to win. Tom Josephson, Director of Solution Consulting at Braze, joins Christina Carter to explain how he runs enterprise RFP responses wit
Christina Carter talks with Philip De-Bodene, a federal and SLED proposal consultant behind more than $8 billion in pursuits and a 65% win rate on priority bids. They get specific about how evaluators actually score a su
Winning bids are decided before the RFP arrives, and again by whether the buyer trusts you enough to call you back. Chris Carter sits down with Simon Cuthbert, founder of Arthurian Labs (Bid Manager Pro), a sales leader
The bid you win was decided long before you opened the document. John Witt, Co-Founder and CEO of Stotles , audited government procurement for six years before building a platform that reads the public sector market for
We cover where the human in the loop is disappearing, when buying software beats running on Claude and a spreadsheet, how to answer a CISO who has banned AI, and what happens to win rates in 2027 when every team automate
What are enterprise buyers actually scoring during a proposal, beyond the document itself? Greg Ellis, Senior Solution Consultant for enterprise deals at Zendesk, ran proposal operations at Fujitsu, Freshworks, and OneTr
What an RFP reveals about a buyer often hides in plain sight. Kristina Nolan, Proposal Strategy Manager at HubSpot, knows what to look for. In this episode of the stargazy brief, Kristina draws on a career spanning opera
Bid and proposal teams generate up to half of all organizational revenue. So why are most of them still treated like admin? Matt Light is Director of International Proposals at Acela Health and Deputy CEO of APMP UK. He
The biggest fear pre-sales leaders have about AI isn't job loss. It's being blamed when the AI is confidently wrong and nobody catches it. Manisha Raisinghani, Co-founder and CEO of SiftHub, interviewed over 200 sales an
Most GovCon leaders treat bid protests like a panic button. David Timm, partner at Bernd Foreman and chair of the Federal Bar Association's Bid Protest Committee, explains why that instinct costs money. In this conversat
If you lead an RFP team in a highly regulated market, proposal strategy starts with defensibility: where data goes, what’s provable over time, and how approved messaging stays differentiated. Perry Robinson (CEO, RocketD
Proposal teams sit on a goldmine of revenue intelligence. But most organizations don’t realize it. In this episode of the Stargazer Brief, we explore why bid and proposal teams are still treated as cost centers, and how
In professional services firms, CVs and experience sections are often treated as administrative documents. In reality, they directly influence RFP evaluation scores, perceived delivery risk, and ultimately win rates. In
In this episode of The Stargazy Brief, Christina Carter speaks with Ray Meiring, CEO of QorusDocs, about how AI is changing the role of proposal teams across AEC, legal, GovCon, and professional services. Ray shares insi
What are GovCon hiring managers really looking for in proposal and capture talent right now, and how is AI changing who gets hired, promoted, or passed over? In this episode of The Stargazy Brief, Christina Carter talks
In this episode of The Stargazy Brief, Christina Carter sits down with Gareth Meredith (Softcat; formerly RingCentral, 8x8, Inventive AI), a bid leader known for building 60–70% win-rate systems through disciplined proce
✨ Explore 1up on Stargazy: https://stargazy.io/proposal-tech/1up...What if proposal and questionnaire software were designed for a world where AI reads your RFP before a human ever does?In this episode of The Stargazy Br
✨ Explore Turingon on Stargazy: https://stargazy.io/proposal-tech/proposal-pilotWhat if proposal software were built not by generalist engineers, but by people who have lived through GovCon deadlines, FAR audits, and pri
✨ See mytender.io on stargazy: https://stargazy.io/proposal-tech/mytender-ioWhat if bid-writing software actually understood your past tenders, subject-matter experts, case studies, and evaluation criteria...and drafted
🌟 Trampoline on Stargazy: https://stargazy.io/proposal-tech/trampoline-aiWhat if proposal software actually understood your documents, your experts, your case studies and your procurement evaluator?In this episode, Edou
Christina Carter
Conscious Parenting Coach and Relationship Specialist · Intu It Parenting and Wellness
1 appearance on this show
Matt Light
Director of International Proposals · Acela Health
1 appearance on this show
David Timm
bid protest attorney · Bernd Foreman
1 appearance on this show
Ray Meiring
CEO · QorusDocs
1 appearance on this show
Simon Cuthbert
Arthurian Labs
1 appearance on this show
Kristina Nolan
HubSpot
1 appearance on this show
Manisha Raisinghani
SiftHub
1 appearance on this show
Perry Robinson
RocketDocs
1 appearance on this show
Erling Linde
Flowcase
1 appearance on this show
Al Vega
US federal GovCon recruiter
1 appearance on this show
Gareth Meredith
Softcat
1 appearance on this show
George
1up
1 appearance on this show
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