How much does Inventive AI cost?

Published structure: one plan with every feature, a fixed platform fee plus payment per RFP or security questionnaire worked on, unlimited users and no seat licenses, starting at $10,000 a year. The exact quote comes from a 15 minute pricing call or the quote calculator on inventive.ai/inventive-ai-pricing.

What are the best alternatives to Inventive AI?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Inventive AI among GTM and revenue agents are Loopio, SiftHub, CommerceIQ, Connected-Stories. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Inventive AI have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Inventive AI publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: The security page documents SAML SSO with Google, Microsoft and Okta, user roles from administrator to general user with matching access levels, SOC 2 Type II with the audit carried out by an independent firm, and encrypted, scrubbed audit. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Inventive AI give you tracing and observability into agent runs?

Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. Inventive AI publishes some public evidence of logging or observability, but narrower than full tracing and auditability across agent runs. Evidence basis: Traceability on each answer, nothing on the agents' runs. Answers carry citations and confidence ratings, and the security page describes encrypted logs with sensitive information scrubbed, without saying they record agent actions. No run h. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Inventive AI require human approval before an agent acts?

Partial under the Agentic Index verification standard. Inventive AI publishes some public evidence of guardrails or oversight, but narrower than a documented human approval step before an agent acts. Evidence basis: Drafts go to the team, who edit suggestions or flag inaccuracies, user roles set who can do what, and folder permissions limit what the system reads. No approval step with states, confidence threshold or block before a response leaves is do. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Inventive AI

Q: Who is Inventive AI for?

lean RFP teams, solutions engineering, mid market

Also known as: Inventive AI Content Manager, Inventive AI Context Engine

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GTM / revenue agentindependentVerified 2026-10-01

Entry priceFrom $10,000 a year: a fixed platform fee plus payment per RFP or questionnaire; custom quoteFull pricing detail

AI native RFP and questionnaire response platform built around conflict detection, continuously flagging stale, duplicate and contradictory content across live connected knowledge sources before a response ships.

Inventive AI is a Y Combinator W24 company building AI response automation for RFPs, RFIs, DDQs and security questionnaires.

Its knowledge hub reads live from SharePoint, Google Drive, Notion, Confluence and uploaded documents, respecting source folder permissions, and the AI Context Engine assembles deal context so answers reflect the buyer and the deal. Answers carry citations and confidence ratings.

The AI Content Manager's agents check the connected sources for outdated, duplicate and conflicting content and, the vendor says, eliminate it automatically, with a Self-Updating Knowledge Base in beta. Intake parses Word, PDF or Excel RFPs into a structured workspace with requirements extracted, and helper agents cover competitor research, win themes and compliance. The team edits drafts and flags inaccuracies, which the system is said to learn from.

The security page states SOC 2 Type II, SAML single sign-on with Google, Microsoft and Okta, user roles, AWS hosting with tenant isolation and zero data retention agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic. Connections are read side only, with nothing written back into the CRM or repositories, and no API, SDK, webhook or MCP server is published. Pricing starts at $10,000 a year: a fixed platform fee plus payment per RFP or questionnaire worked on, with unlimited users.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.inventive.ai

Subcategory

RFP and questionnaire response automation

Funding status

Independent, a Y Combinator W24 company. No funding figure is published on the vendor's pages read.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

RFP and RFI response automationsecurity questionnaire and DDQ responsecontent conflict and staleness detectionwin theme and competitor research

Target customers

lean RFP teamssolutions engineeringmid market

Deployment options

SaaScloud

Integrations

Read side connections into the knowledge hub: Google Drive, Google Workspace, SharePoint, OneDrive, Notion and Confluence for documents, Salesforce and HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack and Microsoft Teams, plus Okta SSO over SAML. Sources sync live and folder permissions carry through. Nothing documents an action written back into those systems, and no public API, SDK, webhook surface or MCP server is published.

In practice

Two of your source documents give different answers about the same certification and nobody knows which is current. The AI Content Manager flags the contradiction across connected sources before the response is submitted rather than after an evaluator spots it.

Your team maintains no vetted answer library and does not want to build one. Inventive reads from Google Drive, SharePoint, Notion and Confluence at generation time, so an edit in the source file carries into the next draft.

You need a differentiator angle for a competitive bid. The research agents pull competitor context and brainstorm win themes alongside the drafting work rather than requiring a separate tool.

Sources & related URLs

Related / legacy domains

https://www.inventive.ai/features https://www.inventive.ai/solution/rfp-platform https://www.inventive.ai/solution/healthcare-rfp-response-software

Research sources

https://www.inventive.ai/ https://www.inventive.ai/features https://www.inventive.ai/solution/rfp-platform https://www.inventive.ai/solution/healthcare-rfp-response-software

Agentic Index coverage score

7.0 / 14 capabilities · 50%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Partial
A wide read side estate with no action written back. The integrations page lists Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Workspace, Confluence, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Okta SSO, each described as syncing content into the knowledge hub or controlling sign in. No page documents the agents creating or updating anything in those systems, and no API, webhook or Zapier route is offered. Sourceinventive.ai/integrationsread 2026-10-01
Workflow Orchestration	Full
Multiple agents run a multi step response flow. Intake parses an RFP into a structured workspace with requirements extracted, the AI Context Engine assembles deal context, the Knowledge Agent drafts against the connected hub and the AI Content Manager's agents check content across sources, with project tasks, comments and permissions around them. Sourceinventive.ai and inventive.ai/solution/rfp-platformread 2026-10-01
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Full
A maintained hub over the customer's own content. Live syncs from SharePoint, Google Drive, Notion and Confluence plus uploaded documents and historical RFPs feed a unified knowledge hub that respects source folder permissions, answers carry citations and confidence ratings, and the AI Content Manager keeps the hub current by flagging stale, duplicate and conflicting content. Sourceinventive.ai and inventive.ai/integrationsread 2026-10-01
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Partial
Drafts go to the team, who edit suggestions or flag inaccuracies, user roles set who can do what, and folder permissions limit what the system reads. No approval step with states, confidence threshold or block before a response leaves is documented. Sourceinventive.ai and inventive.ai/securityread 2026-10-01
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
The security page documents SAML SSO with Google, Microsoft and Okta, user roles from administrator to general user with matching access levels, SOC 2 Type II with the audit carried out by an independent firm, and encrypted, scrubbed audit logs. Sourceinventive.ai/securityread 2026-10-01
Observability & Auditability	Partial
Traceability on each answer, nothing on the agents' runs. Answers carry citations and confidence ratings, and the security page describes encrypted logs with sensitive information scrubbed, without saying they record agent actions. No run history, trace or activity view of what the agents did is documented. Sourceinventive.ai and inventive.ai/securityread 2026-10-01
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
Content and records, not memory. Historical RFPs, approved answers and synced documents make up the knowledge hub, and the system learning from user edits and flags is an asserted loop; no memory the agents write and read back as their own state, and no scope, lifetime or delete path for one, is documented. Sourceinventive.airead 2026-10-01
Deployment & Data Residency	Not documented
Vendor hosted on AWS with nothing selectable. The security page describes AWS infrastructure with separate production and staging VPCs and strict tenant isolation, which are the vendor's own topology; no region choice, customer VPC, single tenant or on-premises option is offered. Sourceinventive.ai/securityread 2026-10-01
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Partial
Agents that are parts of one response workflow, not a set the buyer picks from. The Context Engine, Content Manager, Knowledge Agent and the research, win theme and compliance helpers all work inside a single RFP plan with every feature included. None is offered as a product doing its own job apart from the others. Sourceinventive.ai and inventive.ai/inventive-ai-pricingread 2026-10-01
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
The home page says the AI Content Manager's agents automatically detect and eliminate outdated or conflicting information across connected sources, with a Self-Updating Knowledge Base in beta, so work starts on content changes without a person initiating it. Response work itself still starts when a person imports an RFP, and Slack carries notifications. Sourceinventive.airead 2026-10-01
Model Flexibility & Routing	Partial
Several makers, chosen by the vendor. The security page names zero data retention agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic, and the home page describes a blend of LLMs and proprietary agents for specific tasks. No customer selection, routing policy or bring your own model is offered. Sourceinventive.ai/securityread 2026-10-01
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Not documented
Nothing lets an outside system call the platform. The home page, integrations page and security page name no API, SDK, webhook, MCP server or developer documentation; the connectors are inbound. Sourceinventive.ai/integrationsread 2026-10-01
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Partial
Checks on the content and an asserted loop, no evaluation of the agents. Confidence ratings mark weak answers, the AI Content Manager checks the corpus for conflicts, and the system is said to learn from user edits and flagged inaccuracies with no mechanism documented. No scored test set, benchmark or regression check on agent output is offered. Sourceinventive.airead 2026-10-01
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
No browser, desktop or computer control. Content arrives through authenticated connectors and uploads and responses leave as documents; no extension, portal autofill or page navigation is documented. Sourceinventive.ai/integrationsread 2026-10-01

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Pricing

From $10,000 a year: a fixed platform fee plus payment per RFP or questionnaire; custom quote

fixed platform fee plus pay per RFP or questionnaire; unlimited users

What is public

The pricing page publishes the structure and a $10,000 a year starting point; the per RFP rate and the platform fee are quoted.

Billing mechanics

Annual plan: fixed platform fee plus usage priced per RFP or security questionnaire, unlimited users.

Cost watchouts

Cost tracks the number of RFPs and questionnaires worked on above the platform fee, and the per item rate is not published.

Variable cost rationale

Volume linked: the bill moves with the number of RFPs and questionnaires worked on, at a rate that is quoted rather than published.

Additional watchouts

Size the expected RFP and questionnaire volume before the pricing call, since it drives the quote.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

No free tier or trial; pricing call or quote calculator

Lowest paid plan

One plan, starting at $10,000 a year

Commercial notes

One plan includes the full RFP and security questionnaire workflow, the AI Content Engine, the knowledge hub, project management, integrations and support, with no add-ons.

Key ambiguities

The per RFP or per questionnaire rate and the size of the platform fee, which together set the cost above the $10,000 a year floor.

Missing data

Per item rate and platform fee.

Agentic Index verified 2026-10-01

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Data confidence: high