AI has long promised to make work faster, smarter, and more efficient. But too often, the reality falls short, locked behind black-box tools or solutions that demand heavy customization. At Responsive, we believe AI should be intuitive and accessible, built for every team to use and not just something only engineers can manage.
That’s why our Spring 2025 release is all about putting AI in your hands. With the debut of Agent Studio and a new generation of Responsive agents, we’re delivering on the promise of intelligent automation — on your terms.
These new capabilities aren’t just about writing faster or analyzing better. They’re about giving every team the power to shape how they respond, automate what matters most, and scale their impact with confidence.
Agent Studio: Build AI agents without code
Until now, automating response workflows required deep technical expertise or forced organizations to adapt to rigid, prebuilt tools. Responsive’s new Agent Studio changes that.
As the centerpiece of our Spring 2025 release, Agent Studio is a no-code environment where teams can build and deploy custom AI agents. Agent Studio gives you the power to design AI agents that work the way you need.
From sales to proposal management to IT, teams across the organization can now build intelligent agents that save time, reduce risk, and scale best practices — without writing a single line of code.
The possibilities are as broad as your imagination. Whether you’re automating content cleanup, tagging outdated entries, scheduling compliance checks, or building something entirely unique, Agent Studio gives you unprecedented flexibility and power. With automation at your fingertips, you unlock more time for strategy, creativity, and growth.
How Agent Studio works
Agent Studio walks users through a conversational interface to create agents step by step. Start from scratch or choose from prebuilt templates. Then, describe what you want your agent to do, watch it build the workflow on the fly, validate, and deploy.
Your agents can:
- Run on demand or on a schedule
- Trigger alerts for anomalies
- Operate in a review-first or fully autonomous mode
- Leave behind a clear audit trail so you’re always in control
Responsive will support customers using Agent Studio with Professional Services resources to assist in their creative needs.
Expanding the Responsive AI agent library
As part of this release, we’re expanding our library of out-of-the-box agents, which are now available directly in the tools teams already use, like Slack and Responsive Ask. These agents are designed to perform specialized, high-value tasks across the pursuit lifecycle, from fast first drafts to go/no-go analysis.
Together, they reflect our ongoing investment in practical, accessible AI that works wherever you do.
Answering Agent: First drafts in seconds
Creating first drafts is one of the most time-consuming parts of any response process. Answering Agent transforms that task into a seamless experience, delivering high-quality, fully sourced drafts in seconds.
Already embedded in key workflows across the Responsive Platform, Answering Agent now extends into the tools people use every day. Integrated directly into Responsive Ask and Slack, Answering Agent brings AI-powered drafting into the flow of daily work, making it easy for field teams and proposal pros alike to respond faster, stay accurate, and focus on personalization rather than blank-page drafting.
How Answering Agent works
Ask a question or upload a document. Answering Agent pulls from your Content Library, applies style and tone preferences, and produces a draft complete with citations. It’s like having a proposal writer on demand — inside the tools you already use.
Analysis Agent: Know what’s worth pursuing
Too often, teams waste time on RFPs that aren’t the right fit. Analysis Agent helps solve that by providing an instant, AI-powered assessment of opportunity fit so you can decide whether to proceed with confidence.
Rather than relying on gut feel or a manual approach, Analysis Agent extracts and summarizes key requirements so you can quickly assess the opportunity, surface potential risks, and accelerate confident pursuit decisions.
How Analysis Agent works
Upload an RFP, RFI, or questionnaire into Responsive Ask, which gives all teams fingertip access to trusted company content via conversational AI. Analysis Agent will then shred the document, identify crucial details – like scope, schedule, and technical requirements – and then compile a clear, actionable summary.
It’s the fastest way to determine fit, align teams, and pursue only what’s winnable.
Guided Projects: Power in the hands of the field
In large enterprises, proposal teams are often overwhelmed with the sheer volume of information requests, from RFPs and security questionnaires to DDQs and vendor assessments. With hundreds to thousands of field reps and limited central resources, responding to every request efficiently is a challenge.
Guided Projects helps solve this at scale. It’s a new way for field teams to independently run RFPs and assessments without compromising quality or consistency. By embedding best practices, task automation, and Responsive AI agents into every step, Guided Projects empowers more teams to independently manage the response process from start to finish.
Whether it’s an ad hoc questionnaire or a standard RFP, Guided Projects makes sure responses are complete, compliant, and credible.
How Guided Projects works
Guided Projects walks users through a step-by-step workflow, using Responsive agents to manage every stage of the response process. From identifying key requirements and generating first drafts to refining tone and ensuring compliance, Guided Projects brings automation and best practices together to help more teams create high-quality submissions — fast.
Behind the scenes, Responsive AI agents handle critical tasks like:
- Analyzing documents for fit and requirements
- Drafting responses using trusted content
- Refining responses for style, tone, and voice
Guided Projects is more than a workflow. It’s automation that scales pursuit excellence across your organization.
Quality Check & TRACE Score™: AI quality assurance
Even high-quality drafts can stumble in the final stretch — missing answers, broken links, or misaligned tone can all undermine your submission. That’s where Quality Check and TRACE Score™ come in.
Together, they form the final layer of quality assurance in your response process. Quality Check is an AI-powered pre-submission audit that flags content issues before they go out the door. TRACE Score™, Responsive’s proprietary scoring system, evaluates AI-generated responses for clarity, relevance, and completeness, so you’re never left guessing about quality.
These capabilities help teams ship responses that are accurate, polished, and pitch-perfect — every time.
How Quality Check and TRACE Score™ work
From any project, in the Responsive Platform, users can:
(a) Run a Quality Check to scan for:
- Missing or incomplete responses
- Invalid merge tags or URLs
- Sensitive or restricted content
- Negative or misaligned tone
(b) View a TRACE Score™ for AI-generated responses, with detailed breakdowns that highlight areas for improvement and help teams maintain high standards at scale. Learn more about it here.
From quick-turn questionnaires to complex proposals, these tools ensure every submission is complete, compliant, and ready to win.
What’s next starts here
The future of Strategic Response Management isn’t just AI-powered; It’s user-powered. This evolution of the Responsive Platform represents a major step toward that future, with tools built to democratize automation, improve accuracy, and accelerate how work gets done across the enterprise.
We’re incredibly proud of what’s launching, and even more excited for what it enables. Agent Studio and the new Responsive agents are now available for early access for existing customers. If you’re ready to start building smarter responses with less effort, request a demo or reach out to your Customer Success Manager.
Let’s build what’s next — together.