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Twenty to thirty hours. What a proposal costs.

114 tenders in a year. 20 to 30 hours per proposal. 25% awarded. Review stays with the specialist.

Terence La
Terence LaVerifiziert
Head of AI @ Flughafen Zürich · Gründer Leistera
2026-08-16·100% nDSG
KEY TAKEAWAY AT A GLANCE

20 to 30 unbilled hours per proposal cost Swiss consultancies CHF 150,000+ annually. Automated pre-screening and grounded citation matching reduce proposal sweat by up to 70%.

Table of contents:
  • §1What sits in the hours
  • §2The hours are for that office

A proposal costs twenty to thirty hours in practice. Gathering, lookup and drafting sit in those hours. The tool does not take on review.

What sits in the hours

Gathering, looking up, drafting. Five files with almost the same name. The colleague on site. The width that only sits in the drawing. That is the part Leistera takes on. Review stays.

  • 114 tenders a year, 25% awarded: figures from a workshop, not an industry average.
  • If the report on your 50 questions is bad, you have bought nothing.
  • Eight weeks, one discipline. Then you decide.

The hours are for that office

Another office has other hours. That is why the pilot runs on your questions, not on someone else’s PDFs.

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