Yesdraft: Proposals an approver can say yes to

A proposal can be accurate and still stall: the ask is buried on page six, exclusions are never written down, and the approver cannot tell what they must provide. Committees approve plans they can read once. Yesdraft structures proposal and scope documents so the decision-maker can say yes.

What it does

• One-line objective: "After reading, [role] approves [ask] by [date]." No drafting until that line can be written.
• Spine before prose: the section list, evidence and ask agreed before any paragraph.
• Scope as tables with item, buyer-language description, included or excluded, phase and acceptance check.
• Annexes A to F: budget copied from your existing quote (never recalculated), timeline, team roles, risk, capability evidence, sample materials.
• Value language instead of stack and feature names.
• Delivery note at handover: each proposal item with status (shipped, partial, deferred, dropped by agreement) and evidence.

How it works

1. Audience and objective: the decision-maker's role, approval path and deadline.
2. Angle: institutional or commercial, one primary.
3. Spine, scope tables and annexes, with annex references numbered from the main paper.
4. Fresh-reader test: can the approver state the ask, cost, timeline and their obligations after one pass?
5. Sweep: em dashes, internal codenames, placeholders, other clients' names and old brands removed before the PDF render.
6. Delivery note issued at the end of the job.

Frameworks & tools

No software is required beyond your agent. It works from your brief, your quote and evidence that exists. Variants cover partnership papers, concept notes, scope documents, capability profiles and training proposals.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

"Write a proposal" tends to give long prose with outcomes nobody can prove. Yesdraft agrees what the reader must approve first, removes any claim without evidence, keeps budget figures copied from the quote, and puts exclusions in writing so silence does not become scope creep.

Use cases

• Proposals to schools, universities, agencies or funders.
• Partnership and MoU concept papers.
• Scope documents attached to a quote.
• Delivery notes that close a project.

Known limitations

Does not set the price, tiers or payment phases; it cites a quote you already have. It does not fill an institution's own template or render the final PDF. Staff and student names stay as roles until each name is approved.