I’m using GPT as a real-time copilot for small business dealmaking

[gusty linden]

Primarily around:
• real estate selection
• financing / fundraising (including SBA)
• lease negotiation

It’s not just drafting. I’m using it to reason through incentives across stakeholders like landlords, lenders, investors, and pressure test positions before I take them into a negotiation.

It’s also become my primary tool for producing business documents at speed:
• LOIs
• investor memos
• proposals and sales decks
• communications tuned to different personalities (bankers vs brokers vs partners)

The biggest shift for me over the last couple model/tooling iterations is the ability to work with large, messy, real-world inputs. Leases, budgets, deal structures and the like, and iterate quickly with full context.

The result is a meaningful increase in both the quality and velocity of professional work I am able to accomplish, at a cost that’s trivial relative to the decisions being made.

Another:

Using GPT to produce high-quality, fully customized RFP responses and proposals (strategy, narrative, and structure — not just writing).

The recent model improvements + large context window make it possible to:
• ingest the full RFP + internal materials
• synthesize relevant capabilities and case studies
• maintain a coherent narrative across the entire document
• iterate on positioning (not just wording) in real time

It’s effectively collapsed what used to be a multi-person, multi-cycle process into a single continuous workflow — without sacrificing quality.

[somber holly]

Nice job, OP! Sounds like our fields have a lot of overlapping "headaches", if you will. Always wanted to create something along the lines of what you're talking about, because it's impossible to ignore how painstaking the RFP writing process always is; I just never had the bandwidth to see it through. Makes me happy to see someone made it happen!

[gusty linden]

Yeah it’s not something that necessarily translates to an app nor agentic but is a good use of sessioning with the tooling and window available.