How Unbound Made Proposal Planning More Repeatable with Bidaya

The Challenge

When Khatereh Baharikhoob launched Unbound, she was delivering client work while building the operational side of a new practice. Competitive planning proposals added another heavy lift. Their detailed time-task matrices had to connect phases, tasks, team members, hours, fees, and schedules. Khatereh described this as the most time-consuming part of proposal development. She needed a faster way to create a credible first version without lowering the quality of her review.

How Bidaya Helped

Unbound loaded past proposals, CVs, and a reference time-task matrix into Bidaya. For a complex planning pursuit, Bidaya generated a formatted workbook with project phases, task details, formulas, team hours and fees, a fee summary, hourly rates, and a schedule foundation. Khatereh also used the strategy workspace to consolidate changing email correspondence into an up-to-date proposal strategy. Once the initial matrix was refined, it became a reusable reference for future proposals.

It’s been life-changing. I don’t know what I would do without it.

Khatereh B.Founder

The Result

Instead of starting from a blank spreadsheet, Unbound now begins with a structured, editable foundation generated in minutes. Khatereh still validates sequencing, task types, rates, budget allocations, and project-specific assumptions. Expert judgment remains essential, but Bidaya handles much of the setup work. That allows her to spend more time on the team, strategy, and details that make a proposal competitive. In her first month on the platform, she submitted two proposals on overlapping deadlines, both on time. The improved workflow now carries forward from one pursuit to the next.