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post-mortem.

7 posts in this archive.

Engineering

Shipped: auto-generated post-mortem themes

After 200 debriefs the themes cluster predictably. The clustering is now automatic — here's what ships, what it does, and what it refuses to do.

PursuitAgent
Category

Win-loss intelligence starts on day one

Most teams collect the wrong signals after a bid, and the wrong signals compound. An opinion piece on what to capture from the moment the RFP lands, not the day after the award email.

Bo Bergstrom
RFP Mechanics

The annual proposal-team retro template

The questions we ask at year-end and the format that surfaces what monthly retros miss. A 90-minute meeting that produces a durable artifact instead of a slide deck that gets archived and forgotten.

Sarah Smith
RFP Mechanics Long read

Proposal post-mortems: the discipline, the template, the follow-through

The canonical long-read on proposal post-mortems. What a post-mortem actually accomplishes, the template that makes the discipline sustainable, how to get a debrief from the buyer, and the three follow-through patterns that work.

Sarah Smith
Engineering

In preview: the post-mortem pipeline at submit close

The moment a proposal marks won or lost, PursuitAgent opens a structured post-mortem against the captured pair. In preview while the post-mortem template, reflection, and write-back loop mature toward general availability.

PursuitAgent
RFP Mechanics

The proposal post-mortem template: preview

A Wednesday teaser for next week's pillar. The fields that matter in a post-mortem template, and the one section most teams skip.

Sarah Smith
Team & Workflow

The 20-minute proposal retro

The ritual we run after every submit. Five questions. One owner per action item. Twenty minutes. Why most proposal post-mortems don't happen and what makes this one stick.

PursuitAgent

See the proposal workflow

Take the 5-minute tour, then start a trial workspace when you're ready to run a real pursuit against your own source material.