How Event Agencies Can Use AI to Win More High-Stakes RFPs

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July 1, 2025
How Event Agencies Can Use AI to Win More High-Stakes RFPs
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For a global brand experience agency, the most important event is often the one that happens before the event: winning the business. The competitive RFP process for a Fortune 1000 account is a full-scale production of its own. It consumes hundreds of hours from an agency's most valuable assets—its senior strategists, top creatives, and business development leaders. The traditional process is a manual grind of research, brainstorming, writing, and design, all on a tight deadline and often with no guarantee of winning. This operational drag becomes a major barrier to an agency's sustainable growth. 

But there’s a smarter, faster way forward. 

AI as a Strategic Accelerator—Not a Shortcut

While some agencies dabble in AI for flashy on-site event activations, the true game-changer lies in applying AI to your business development process. Imagine being able to automate the most time-consuming parts of an RFP—gaining speed, insight, and strategic firepower where it matters most: building the client relationship.

AIBuilder helps agencies like LEO Events streamline the heavy lifting of RFP response development so your team can focus on what truly differentiates you: world-class strategy and creative execution.

Here's How It Works:

Instant (Deep) Intelligence Gathering: Forget days of research. AIBuilder rapidly analyzes news, financials, industry trends, and public statements to generate a detailed profile of your prospective client. You get a snapshot of their top challenges, strategic goals, brand voice, and even executive sentiment—all in minutes. You get an intelligence dossier on your prospective client in minutes.

Strategy Starters Built from Real Data: Then, it can synthesize this intelligence to produce ready-to-use strategic assets: detailed audience personas for the client's event, a library of their specific pain points, and tailored messaging frameworks that speak directly to their needs. Your strategy team no longer starts with a blank page; they start with a data-driven foundation on day one.

Proposal Content at Scale: From this strategic base, AIBuilder can generate high-quality draft content for the proposal itself—from executive summaries to descriptions of proposed activations that are aligned with the client's documented goals. It can even take a successful past event, like a complex national sales meeting, and instantly generate a compelling new case study formatted and customized for the proposal.

More Bids. Better Work. Less Burnout.

By integrating AI into your proposal development workflow, LEO Events can:

  • Respond to more RFPs with less lift
  • Deliver sharper, more relevant proposals, faster
  • Reduce creative fatigue and free up senior talent for high-impact work
  • Accelerate growth without scaling headcount

In a competitive space where every pitch counts, this isn’t just a productivity boost—it’s a strategic edge that helps you win more of the work you want. The ultimate unfair advantage!

Ready to Elevate Your Next Pitch?

Let’s talk about how AIBuilder can help LEO Events scale smarter, pitch stronger, and grow faster—starting with your next big opportunity.


Disclaimer: This article was created with some help from AI, but thoroughly edited, reviewed, and fact-checked by a living, breathing, coffee-drinking human writer.

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