Precision Writing
Helping Organizations Turn Expertise into Winning Proposals

Alexandra Harrison, Founder

The challenge is compounded by the growing workload. Subject matter experts are often spread too thin to dedicate the necessary time to proposals, while many organizations lack the budget or staffing for internal proposal teams. Even when teams understand how to deliver the work, they may not have the time or expertise to shape the narrative, address every requirement, and maximize their score.

This shift is where Precision Writing has found its purpose.

Founded by Alexandra Harrison, the company works with organizations that understand their industries but need support translating their knowledge into compelling, high-scoring proposals. Over the past two years, Precision Writing has helped clients secure more than $500 million in awarded work and has achieved a 78 percent win rate on government-funded pursuits.

According to Harrison, many companies are facing a challenge they did not experience years ago. The proposals that once delivered success may no longer achieve the same results because evaluation processes have evolved.

“The days of recycling boilerplate and expecting to win are over,” says Harrison. “Evaluators are becoming more sophisticated, scoring is more precise, and every point matters. A winning proposal needs to be built around the opportunity.”

Precision Writing helps organizations understand these changes and adapt their approach so their proposals reflect both compliance requirements and the unique value they bring to a project.

Bringing Structure To The Proposal Process

Many of Precision Writing’s clients have highly skilled technical teams, but proposal development often becomes difficult because those same experts are balancing demanding project responsibilities. Developing a strong submission requires time, strategy, storytelling, and an understanding of how evaluators assess responses.

The challenge is rarely a lack of technical expertise. Clients already know how to do the work. The challenge is extracting that knowledge, identifying what differentiates the team, and translating it into a clear, persuasive response that makes it easy for evaluators to award points.

Precision Writing addresses this challenge through a structured process that begins with understanding a client’s goals, target opportunities, and previous proposal performance. The company conducts cold-eye reviews of past submissions, examining them objectively to identify where points may have been lost and where improvements can be made.
From there, Precision Writing builds a roadmap for each pursuit. Through compliance matrices and detailed planning, the team ensures every requirement is addressed while helping clients present their expertise in a way that resonates with evaluators.

The company works closely with subject matter experts because they hold the technical knowledge needed to deliver projects.

Precision Writing’s role is to draw that knowledge out efficiently and turn it into responses that are clear, strategic, evidence-based, and aligned with scoring expectations. By managing the pursuit process, developing win themes, maintaining compliance, and shaping technical information into evaluator-focused content, Precision Writing allows subject matter experts to contribute where their knowledge adds the greatest value without requiring them to become proposal specialists themselves.

More Than Proposal Writing

Precision Writing’s scope extends beyond writing the final document. For organizations without dedicated proposal staff, the company can function as an extension of the internal team, managing the pursuit process from kickoff through submission while allowing technical experts to focus their time where it adds the most value.

Clients receive customized responses and materials that can support future submissions. Precision Writing also helps build internal capability through guidance, training, templates, and reusable content resources. The process helps internal teams better understand proposal management, allowing them to approach future opportunities with greater confidence.

For organizations that require a more polished presentation, Precision Writing provides design support through both Word-based proposals and more visually refined InDesign submissions. This combination allows clients to create documents that are not only accurate but also easier for evaluators to navigate.

Understanding How Procurements Are Built and Scored

A major differentiator for Precision Writing is its experience not only responding to procurements, but also helping owners develop them. The company has developed RFPs and scoring frameworks and advised owners on procurement strategy, providing insight into how requirements and evaluation criteria are structured before a proposal ever reaches an evaluator.

That perspective directly influences how Precision Writing approaches a submission. Rather than simply answering each question, the team considers how an evaluator will find the information, interpret the evidence, and ultimately assign points. Responses are structured to make compliance clear, substantiate claims, and connect a client’s strengths directly to the evaluation criteria.

Helping Clients Achieve Growth

One client success story highlights the company’s impact. A smaller Saskatchewan organization with significant technical expertise was pursuing a major mining contract but lacked confidence in its proposal capabilities. Precision Writing reviewed its previous submissions, identified communication gaps, and guided the team through the entire process.

Precision Writing supported the pursuit from proposal development through presentations and interview preparation, helping the organization communicate its technical strengths and compete effectively for an opportunity of significant scale. The result was a successful award of a $250 million mining contract, creating a major growth opportunity for the client and establishing a long-term partnership with Precision Writing.

Building For The Future

Precision Writing continues to grow carefully, focusing on expanding capacity while maintaining the quality standards that define its work. The company’s future plans include supporting more organizations across Canada and expanding further into U.S. procurement markets.

For Precision Writing, growth is not simply about handling more proposals. It is about helping organizations compete more effectively in an environment where every point matters and where exceptional proposals can create exceptional opportunities. Whether an organization needs support on a must-win pursuit, wants to improve an underperforming proposal process, or simply does not have the internal capacity to manage increasingly complex submissions, Precision Writing provides the strategy, structure, writing, and guidance needed to compete more effectively.