From Claude’s First Version to a Proposal Your Client Signs

Claude is most helpful with proposal writing when it has plenty to work from, like the client’s brief, your notes from the discovery call, and proposals your clients have signed before. Use it to work through the brief and draft your sections, and with our integration, let it put together the first version of your proposal inside your account.

Better Proposals is specifically designed to help you create proposals that impress clients, from templates with your branding to interactive pricing tables, eSignatures, and payments on the same page. Claude is a great place to start but Better Proposals is where you turn that start into a signed deal.

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Why Claude's proposals read so well

Claude is good at the parts of proposal writing that take care and patience, which is why its drafts can look perfect at first glance. Here is where Claude shines:

It keeps to your house style 

A Claude Project holds files and instructions that apply to every chat inside it. If you upload a few proposals your clients have signed, along with notes on your tone and the phrases you use, Claude uses them as a guide for structure and wording each time you start a new proposal. 

It works through long briefs

Upload an RFP, tender, or client brief and Claude can list the requirements, deadlines, and evaluation criteria for you to write against, along with the questions you still need to ask the client.

It follows detailed instructions

Claude handles long, specific instructions well, like keeping to a word count, avoiding certain phrases, or explaining technical work to a reader who isn't technical.

It can put the proposal together inside Better Proposals

Our Premium and Enterprise plans include an integration that connects the AI tool you already use to your Better Proposals account. Claude Desktop and Claude Code are among the tools that can connect, along with Cursor, Antigravity, and any other AI tool that supports MCP.

Tell Claude which template to use and who the proposal is for, and it puts together the first version of your proposal inside Better Proposals, with your logo, fonts, and brand colors already in place. From there, you fact check, edit, and refine before you send it off.

Find out more about how the integration works on our AI proposal generator page.

 

 

Even a polished draft can be filled with errors

It helps to think of Claude as an idealist. It looks for areas to improve and fills them in with the best-case scenario, whether you asked it to or not. Although this is great for helping you include things you may have missed, it can also overpromise while you unknowingly underdeliver.

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Assumptions written as facts

Leave a gap in your notes, like a date or what the price includes, and Claude may fill it with guesses that sound reasonable, then state it with the same confidence as everything else.

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Prices and services from old files

Claude works from whatever you last uploaded to a Project, so if your prices or services have changed since then, the draft can quote the old ones.

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Scope that grows without you noticing

Claude may add deliverables that sound helpful, like an extra round of revisions or a monthly report, that you never agreed to with the client.

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Client details that sound tailored but aren't

Claude can reuse the words from your notes to describe your client's goals and still miss what they care about most. Would your client recognize their own situation in these sections?

How Claude supports Better Proposals

What you need to do
How Better Proposals handles it
How Claude can support it
  Start a new proposal
Start a new proposal

260+ templates, with your logo, fonts, and brand colors already applied

Puts together the first version inside Better Proposals from the template you choose, through our integration

  Keep your wording consistent across proposals
Keep your wording consistent across proposals

A Content Library of approved sections anyone on your team can add to a proposal

Drafts new sections in the same style as the signed proposals and notes in your Claude Project

  Present your pricing
Present your pricing

Interactive pricing tables with optional extras, and a total that updates as your client selects them

Writes a short description for each line item and optional extra, to the length you ask for

  Make sure the proposal isn't signed after a deadline
Make sure the proposal isn't signed after a deadline

Automatic expiry dates, so the proposal can't be signed after the date you set

Reads the RFP or brief and lists its deadlines, so you know which date to set

  Fit proposals into the rest of your tools
Fit proposals into the rest of your tools

Our API and Zapier integration

Creates proposals from your templates in Claude Code, alongside the rest of your work in the terminal

Checking a proposal before your client sees it

Even with the integration, Claude can’t edit a proposal once it’s been created. Your checks happen in the Better Proposals Editor, where you add what’s missing, correct anything that’s off, and personalize it before you send it off.

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Grab the price from your product list

Set up your products and services then simply add them to the pricing table from the list in your account. The numbers come from what you charge today rather than from the draft.

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Run the Document Checker

Our Premium and Enterprise plans include our Document Checker, which looks over your proposal before you send it and suggests changes based on what wins in your industry.

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Request a manager approval

Enteprise plan lets teams collaborate risk-free allowing you to send a proposal to your manager, get feedback and have an approval before it reaches the client.

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Lock what shouldn't change

Also on our Enterprise plan, you can lock sections like your terms and conditions so they stay exactly as approved and can't be changed by accident.

Teamwork in Better Proposals

What your client gets once you hit send

Once the proposal is correct, your client gets it as an interactive web link rather than a file, and everything they need to do happens on that page.

Opened your proposal on a phone

Reading it

Your client opens the proposal from a link and it reads comfortably on any device, with nothing to download.

Seeing the latest version

If the price or scope changes on a call, you edit the proposal and your client sees the update on the same link, so there's never an older version to sign by mistake.

Signing it

When they're ready, your client types or draws their signature on whatever device they're using. When more than one person needs to sign, our Enterprise plan lets you set the order they sign in.

Signed by drawing

Paying and getting started.

Straight after signing, they can pay a deposit or start a monthly subscription through Stripe, PayPal, or GoCardless without ever leaving the page.

Stripe PayPal GoCardless

Which plans you’ll need for Claude and Better Proposals

Our Starter plan gives one user up to 10 documents a month, with templates, interactive pricing tables, eSignatures, payments, and tracking. It suits you if you’d rather copy your work from Claude into Better Proposals yourself.

Premium includes the AI integration that connects Claude to your account, along with unlimited users, 50 documents a month, your own domain, and custom onboarding flows.

Our Enterprise plan adds unlimited documents, manager approvals, content locking, and advanced user permissions.

On the Claude side, you’ll need Claude Desktop or Claude Code. Claude’s free plan has usage limits you’ll reach quickly when you’re creating proposals through the integration, and Claude Code is only available on its paid plans, so if you plan to use Claude regularly, you’ll need a paid Claude subscription as well.

Whichever Better Proposals plan you’re considering, you can try it free for 14 days without a credit card.

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Starter

Perfect when just starting out.

$13

/user per month

$19 /user per month when paid monthly

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Core features:

  • Legally binding digital signatures
  • Interactive pricing tables
  • Payment integrations
  • Content Library
  • Notifications and analytics

Premium

Ideal for any small business.

$21

/user per month

$29 /user per month when paid monthly

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Everything in Starter, plus:

  • Custom domain
  • CRM integrations
  • Automatic expiry dates
  • API/Zapier
  • Custom onboarding flows and forms

Enterprise

Designed for sales teams.

$42

/user per month

$49 /user per month when paid monthly

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Everything in Premium, plus:

  • Content locking
  • Simultaneous editing
  • Inline commenting
  • Manager approvals
  • Advanced user permissions

FAQs

Can Claude write a business proposal from scratch?
It can draft one from a short description, but with nothing specific to work from, the result will be general and could apply to any client. Give Claude your call notes and the client's brief, then add the details that make the proposal about your client's business before you send it.
Can Claude check my proposal for me?
Claude can read a section and point out anything unclear or unanswered, but it can't confirm your prices, dates, or what you agreed with the client. That final check is yours.
Does Claude replace proposal software?
No. Claude helps you work out and write what goes into a proposal, while proposal software is where your client reads it, signs it, and pays.
What happens to client information I share with Claude?
On Claude’s free, Pro, and Max plans, you can choose in your privacy settings whether your chats are used to train its models, and on its Team and Enterprise plans, they aren’t used for training. If a confidentiality agreement with your client requires it, remove names, figures, and other sensitive details from anything you paste in. On our side, everything in your Better Proposals account is encrypted, and you can read more about how we protect your data on our security page.

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