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Solicitation to letter of interest

The solicitation comes in. A first draft is ready for your team.

Gonzalez's job postings say engineers and business development leads write the proposals. This demo starts where that time goes: reading a MoDOT solicitation and turning it into a scoring checklist, a pick of past projects, a three-page letter of interest and a compliance check. Your people still make every call. They start from a draft instead of a blank page.

1 real solicitation
MoDOT Southeast District, June 2026
6 criteria
100 points, weighted 25 to 10
3 pages
MoDOT's limit for the letter
2 tripwires
Misses that make a letter non-responsive
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How a letter of interest comes together today, and with this

Typical today

How a mid-size engineering firm usually runs it
1
Read the solicitation
The cover letter, the district attachment, the project summary reports, the scoring weights.
2
Find past projects that fit
Search old proposals and project sheets for work that matches this scope.
scattered
3
Gather the team
Pick key personnel, pull and trim their resumes, line up subconsultants.
4
Write the letter
Start from the last letter that felt close and rewrite it to three pages, between billable work.
5
Check it before it goes
Every criterion covered, the workforce statement in, prequalification current.
easy to miss
The work lands on the same engineers who bill the hours

With an AI assistant behind your team

Same people, same judgment, less assembly
1
Drop in the solicitation
The assistant reads all of it and turns the scoring weights into a checklist.
2
Past projects picked and ranked
Each one matched to the criterion it supports, with the gaps called out.
gaps up front
3
Team slots laid out
The roles this scope needs, ready for your names and resumes.
4
Letter drafted to the scoring
One section per criterion, using Gonzalez's own facts, inside the page limit.
5
Compliance checked, then a person signs off
Anything missing is listed before the deadline, not after it.
nothing missed
Pilot goal: fewer engineer hours per letter, measured on real pursuits
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Try it on a real MoDOT solicitation

This is a real request for letters of interest from MoDOT's Southeast District, issued June 10, 2026 and now closed: three bridge replacements in Butler County. The solicitation is on the left. Press a button on the right to see the draft.

The solicitation (excerpt)Issued June 10, 2026

Butler County Bridge Replacements
Job Nos. JSE0210, JSE0211 & JSE0226 · MoDOT Southeast District
Contact: Seiji Shimbo, Project Manager

Letters due 3:00 pm, June 29, 2026 by email · Selection about July 15, 2026 · Letting about Oct. 1, 2028 · No interviews

The three bridges
  • P0256: Route HH over Stilcamp Drainage Ditch
  • P0258: Route HH over Ackerman Drainage Ditch
  • S0523: Route 142 over Cane Creek

Approximate construction cost $2,587,000 · DBE goal 0%

Consultant services
  • Right of way: title commitments for affected properties.
  • Environmental: RES submittals at milestones.
  • Surveying: all survey pickup, land corners, new right of way monumented, boundary surveys, deeds.
  • Roadway design: preliminary through final PS&E; hydraulic analysis of all drainage structures; coordination with drainage districts, municipalities, railroad.
  • Bridge (tentative, by supplemental agreement): preliminary and final bridge design and PS&E.
The letter
  • No more than three pages.
  • Your understanding of the project; key personnel and their backgrounds; any subconsultants; your approach to promoting and developing a diverse workforce.
  • Attach one page on similar projects your key personnel worked on, with their roles and reference contacts.
  • No general company information: MoDOT uses what it already has on file.
Rating criteria
  • Project Understanding & Innovation, 25
  • Past Performance, 25
  • Qualifications of Personnel Assigned, 20
  • General Experience of Firm, 10
  • Familiarity/Capability, 10
  • Accessibility of Firm & Staff, 10

"Firm's not providing a response on approach to workforce diversity will be considered non-responsive." Firms not current on every required prequalification category at the deadline are also non-responsive.

Pick a button above to see the draft.

The solicitation is real: MoDOT, June 10, 2026, now closed. We don't know whether Gonzalez responded to it, and nothing here assumes it did. The project write-ups come from gonzalezcos.com. Staff names, references and anything else that isn't public are left as highlighted slots instead of being made up. In a real setup the drafts come from Gonzalez's own past letters, resumes and project records.

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What a pilot looks like

Next step: a 30-minute call to walk through how one of your letters of interest actually gets built, and whether this fits it.