RFP response time
The planner is deciding while the average venue is still drafting.
The average venue takes three to four days to answer an RFP (Cvent planner-sourcing research). With your property loaded, CatchyProposals turns the same RFP into a reviewed draft in about 20 minutes — and what goes back is a live, branded proposal page, not an attachment.
Average venue
three to four days
Cvent planner-sourcing research
Here
about 20 minutes
RFP to reviewed draft — a person approves every send
Why it matters is not complicated: planners shortlist from the responses in front of them. An answer that arrives the same morning — complete, priced, on your brand — is read while the search is still open, and it frames every response that follows it.
Where the time goes
What “about 20 minutes” honestly means.
The drafting is automatic
Your spaces, menus, and rate rules are loaded once, during guided onboarding. From then on, an incoming RFP — forwarded email or dropped file — becomes a complete draft: offer lines, space assignments, and the interactive map plotted to the program.
The gate is mandatory
A pre-send quality gate checks that dollar amounts are present and property claims hold up before a planner can see the page. It cannot be skipped.
The approval is human
"About 20 minutes" is the RFP-to-reviewed-draft turnaround — your team reads it, adjusts if needed, and sends. It is not instant generation, and we would not want it to be.
The response is a live page
What the planner receives is not an attachment. It is a private, branded proposal page on your own domain, with open and view tracking and automatic follow-ups behind it.
The interactive map the draft plots — spaces assigned to the program, automatically — is shown up close on the mapping page. And if filling the top of the funnel is the bottleneck rather than answering it, that is what the prospecting add-on is for.
Straight answers
Common questions.
- Where does the three-to-four-days figure come from?
- From Cvent planner-sourcing research: the average venue takes three to four days to answer an RFP. It is the industry context for the turnaround this platform is built around, and the only external statistic on this page.
- Does the proposal send automatically?
- No. The platform drafts automatically, a pre-send quality gate checks the draft, and a person on your team reviews and approves before anything reaches a planner. "About 20 minutes" describes RFP to reviewed draft, not an unattended send.
- What has to be in place before the 20-minute turnaround works?
- Your property facts: spaces, menus, and rate rules, loaded once during guided onboarding. The drafting engine works from what your team has loaded and approved — it does not invent property details.
- What does this cost?
- The turnaround is part of the platform plan: $3,500 per property, per year at the founding rate, with unlimited proposals and unlimited users. The full price card is published on the pricing page.
See what a planner gets back.
Open a live demo proposal and click through the map, menus, and offer — the real output, on a composite demo brand. Then read how the whole platform works or the factual DIGIDECK comparison.