Terms of use

RFP Lift helps small firms prepare public-agency cost proposals: it reads RFPs you upload, keeps a roster of rates, builds budgets and timelines, and exports Word and Excel files.

RFP Lift is in early access. It is provided "as is" and "as available". Features, limits and prices may change, the service may be unavailable or contain errors, and we give no warranty. It is free during early access, and we will announce pricing before any charge. We will not charge you without your agreement.

• Information that RFP Lift extracts from a document with AI can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. So can any date, requirement, total or other figure it shows.
• The RFP, its addenda and the agency's written communications are the authoritative source. If anything here differs from them, they control.
• You must check every item, calculation, export and requirement against those documents before you submit a proposal. You are responsible for what you submit, including whether it is complete, accurate and on time.

RFP Lift, its glossary, its help pages and its checklists are general information. They are not legal, financial, accounting or compliance advice. That includes rates, indirect cost rates, escalation, cost principles, procurement rules and whether your firm is eligible for any certification or program, such as DBE, SBE or local business status. Ask the agency, or a qualified professional, about your situation.

You own your content: your roster, rates, proposals, budgets and uploaded documents. You give us permission to host, copy, process and display it, and to send uploaded documents to our AI provider, only as needed to provide RFP Lift to you. We do not use your uploaded RFPs to train AI models. See the privacy policy.

You confirm that you have the right to upload what you upload and to enter other people's information. Do not upload Social Security numbers, federal tax ID numbers or signatures, and do not upload material you may not share.

You sign in with your email. Keep your email account secure, because anyone who can read your sign-in emails can sign in as you. You are responsible for activity under your account. Tell us at hello@rfplift.com if you think someone else has used it.

Do not break the law with RFP Lift, try to get into other people's accounts or data, overload or disrupt the service, send automated or repeated sign-up requests, or copy the service to build a competing one.

We own RFP Lift and its design and code. If you send us feedback, we may use it without owing you anything.

RFP Lift relies on other services for hosting, storage, email and AI. If one of them is unavailable or changes, RFP Lift may be too.

You can stop using RFP Lift at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account and data (see the privacy policy). We may suspend or end access if you break these terms or if we end early access, and we will give notice where we reasonably can.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we give no warranties of any kind, including that RFP Lift is accurate, error-free or fit for a particular purpose, or that it will help you win any contract or meet any deadline.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost contracts or a proposal that is late, rejected or disqualified. Our total liability for any claim about RFP Lift is limited to [LIABILITY CAP: for example, the greater of US$100 or what you paid us in the previous 12 months]. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Courts located in Alameda County, California will hear any dispute about them, and you and we agree to that venue. [DISPUTE RESOLUTION: decide whether to add an arbitration clause or other process.]

We may change these terms. We will post the new version with a new date, and email account holders about significant changes. If you keep using RFP Lift after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms.

Questions about these terms go to hello@rfplift.com.