For buyers
The confidence of a formal process, in an afternoon.
No procurement training required. TinyRFP teaches you to buy well, does the legwork, and hands you a shortlist you can defend to a CFO or a board.
Who it's for
Built for the people who actually run the decision
The Sponsor
VP, director, or owner who owns the budget and the outcome
Speed, defensibility, and confidence they didn't miss an obviously better option. Will spend an hour up front — not three weeks.
The Delegate
Chief of staff or ops manager running the process
Wants the tool to teach them what to ask. The industry modules exist mostly for them.
The Reviewer
CFO, board member, or partner scrutinizing the decision
Provenance, methodology transparency, and a paper trail they can audit.
What you get
Three things, in order
An authoring skill, an autonomous research agent, and a report that stands up to scrutiny.
- 01
A high-quality brief in under an hour
An interactive authoring skill interviews you, loads an industry module so it asks what you wouldn't know to ask, and pushes back on all-must-have requirement lists and unrealistic budgets.
- 02
Autonomous research, end to end
From a finalized brief, the research agent discovers candidates, gathers evidence, interviews provider endpoints, verifies claims, and scores everyone against your rubric — with optional human checkpoints.
- 03
A defensible, cited shortlist
Every claim traces to a source, and every source is labeled by how trustworthy it is. The report is the deliverable a Reviewer can actually audit.
The deliverable
A shortlist report, not a list of links
The report is the product. Every score cites the evidence behind it, and every piece of evidence is labeled by how trustworthy it is.
Executive page
Top three to five providers with one-paragraph rationales, weighted scores, and decision-ready next steps.
Comparison matrix
Every criterion against every candidate, with inline citation markers.
Candidate dossiers
Per finalist: profile, strengths and risks, verified evidence, pricing intelligence, and any integrity flags.
Methodology & appendices
The rubric and weights, the queries used, the full longlist with elimination reasons, transcripts, and a disclosure log — exportable as machine-readable JSON.
Provenance, encoded throughout
A reviewer can judge the strength of any claim at a glance. Vendor-side claims alone can never satisfy a criterion that requires independent proof.
- Independently verifiedConfirmed against an authoritative registry or primary source.
- Third-partyPublished by someone other than the provider — reviews, news, analysts.
- Vendor-publishedOn the provider's own public website or materials.
- Vendor-claimedStated interactively via an endpoint or contact — unaudited, per-session.
Your privacy
Qualified, but pseudonymous by default
The old trade-off: stay anonymous and providers won't take you seriously, or identify yourself and your inbox pays for it. TinyRFP's answer is qualified pseudonymity.
By default a provider sees your category, sanitized requirements, and a rough size band — not your company name, your contact details, or your exact budget. The agent proves the session is serious (it commits to a specific brief) without proving who you are.
Your identity only ever transfers by a single explicit action you take. Until then, the provider has a pseudonymous session and a transcript, nothing more — and everything sent on your behalf is recorded in the report's disclosure log.
You stay in control
Buyer tools are coming soon.
The authoring skill and research agent will ship as portable skills you run in the AI assistants you already use.