Companion to The AI Proposal System

Find the one stagethat's leaking the work.

Enter your own 30-day numbers. The Map computes the book's seven metrics, scores your funnel stages against the book's benchmarks, and names the constraint — the earliest stage that's leaking — then routes you to the fix. A funnel only flows as fast as its tightest stage.

Get the Map — $79one-time · instant download · yours to keep
Five deliverables · runnable
Funnel Map engine
python
Metrics workbook
xlsx
Diagnosis playbook
docx
Constraint runbook
docx
Sample periods
csv
Works alongside
Proposal Quality Probe · scores each proposal the Map says to fix
01.The Problem

More proposals won't fix the wrong stage.

7

numbers tracked over 30 days locate the exact point a proposal funnel is bleeding revenue — most freelancers track none of them.

1

stage is almost always the constraint. Fixing any other stage first is wasted effort while the real leak stays open.

$103

revenue per proposal can look healthy while the funnel is still leaking upstream — the average hides the binding stage.

02.See It Work

Enter your numbers. Read the constraint.

Your last 30 days
Visibility & Openconstraint55
Evaluate64
Hire49
LEAKING
constraint 55 · mean 56
Tightest stage: Visibility & Open. Fix it first with Proposal Quality Probe.

Every number comes from your own inputs and the book's benchmarks. Grades the funnel, not any person.

Each stage scores 0–100 against the book's benchmark for your niche. The verdict is set by the constraint — the earliest stage below healthy — not the average, because the average hides the leak.

The funnel is sequential, so a low win rate is usually a symptom of a weak opening upstream, not a hiring problem. The Map names the first stage that leaks and routes you to the drop that fixes it — Visibility & Open to the Proposal Quality Probe, Evaluate to the Battlecard Builder, Hire to the Pricing Kit.

The sample is the book's own example: 62 proposals, $6,400 in revenue, an 11.6× ROI — and the funnel still reads LEAKING, because the response rate is the weakest stage against the focused-niche benchmark.

03.The Engine

The same diagnosis, offline and runnable.

The zero-dependency Python engine scores one month or a year of months from a CSV and produces the identical verdict to the demo and the workbook — verified across the input space. Here it maps a strong-revenue month that is still leaking:

PROPOSAL FUNNEL MAP
==========================================================
  Response rate           22.6%
  Interview rate          16.1%
  Win rate                6.5%
  Revenue / proposal      $103.23
  Cost / proposal         $8.94
  ROI                     11.6x
  Time to first response  10.8 h
----------------------------------------------------------
  Stage scores (0-100):
    Visibility & Open    55.2
    Evaluate             64.4
    Hire                 49.2
  Constraint stage        Visibility & Open (55.2)
  Mean (context only)     56.2
  VERDICT                 LEAKING
  Fix first               Proposal Quality Probe
                          (Profile, preview text, and the problem-first opening)
04.The Standard

Three rules the Map never breaks.

The constraint, not the average

The verdict is set by the binding stage, never the mean. A healthy-looking average that hides one leaking stage is exactly the failure the Map exists to catch.

Earliest leak, not lowest score

Because the funnel is sequential, a low downstream number is usually a symptom. The Map names the first stage that leaks — the cause, not the symptom.

Your numbers, the book's benchmarks

Every score comes from the numbers you enter and the book's published benchmarks. No industry multiplier, no invented lift, no people scored.

05.What It Is — And Isn't

A funnel diagnostic, not a forecast.

It is
  • The book's seven-metric dashboard as a monthly instrument.
  • A constraint-finder that names the one stage to fix first.
  • A router from the leaking stage to the drop that fixes it.
  • A batch tool — score a year of months from one CSV.
It isn't
  • A forecast — it diagnoses the last 30 days, it doesn't predict the next.
  • A scorer of people — it grades the funnel as a system.
  • A guarantee of any win rate or revenue figure.
  • A replacement for the book; it is the companion to it.

Scope. The Map grades a proposal funnel as a system from the numbers you enter; it does not score, rank, or assess any person, and it is not legal, financial, or career advice.

06.Who It's For

For the freelancer who tracks the numbers.

  • Freelancers and independents who send enough proposals to have 30 days of data.
  • Readers of The AI Proposal System who want the dashboard as a monthly ritual.
  • Anyone tired of guessing whether the fix is the opening, the proof, or the price.
  • Not for fewer than ~20 proposals — too little data to diagnose a stage reliably.
  • Not for scoring or ranking people — it grades a funnel, not a candidate.
  • Not an enterprise pipeline tool; it is built for the individual proposal funnel.
08.Common Questions

Answers before you ask.

It is a deterministic diagnostic for your proposal funnel, built on the seven-metric Analytics Dashboard and the six-stage Proposal Funnel Map from The AI Proposal System. You enter your own 30-day numbers — proposals sent, responses, interviews, wins, revenue, cost, and response time — and the Map computes the book's metrics, scores your funnel stages against the book's benchmarks, and names the one stage that is costing you the work.

Stop guessing which fix.
Find the leak.

One purchase, lifetime access, 12 months of updates. $79, once.

Scope. The Map grades a proposal funnel as a system from the numbers you enter; it does not score, rank, or assess any person, and it is not legal, financial, or career advice.

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