Time drain
Proposals eat senior time
They’re unbilled, they fall to your most senior people, and most firms can’t say which ones actually win work.
The operating system for firms that run on knowledge
ARC connects to your firm’s past proposals, case studies, and methods, and helps your team turn them into new proposals, interview syntheses, and client decks.
One workspace for the whole engagement
- Pitch
- Proposals & SOWs
- Research
- Benchmarking
- Interview synthesis
- Kickoff
- Delivery
- Case studies
Your senior people spend their evenings on proposals
Proposal work lands on the people you can least spare. The case study you need is somewhere on a shared drive. And every AI tool on the team starts from scratch.
Knowledge loss
Past work is hard to find
It’s spread across personal drives and old email threads. Finding the right case study takes longer than rewriting it. Some firms even delete their own gold.
Context gaps
Every AI chat starts over
Each consultant has their own ChatGPT tab. Nothing carries over between people, projects, or proposals, so everyone re-uploads the same files.
ARC puts all of it in one place.
How it works
ARC runs as a loop. Finished work goes back in once you approve it, so each new proposal starts from everything the last one produced.
What ARC does
Interview synthesis
Load a batch of transcripts. ARC groups the themes, pulls the quotes behind them, and flags where interviewees contradict each other.
Proposals and SOWs
Upload the RFP and your supporting material. ARC builds an editable proposal section by section, ready to export. In user testing, proposal work went from four weeks to two days.
Firm knowledge base
Connect the folders you choose. ARC remembers where each file came from and suggests the case studies, templates, and methods that fit the work in front of you.
Internal benchmarking
Turn the questions clients keep asking into answers backed by data.
Case studies
When a project wraps, ARC turns the final deliverables into a draft case study or method write-up. Once you approve it, it goes back into the knowledge base.
Your templates
Set up your fonts, colors, and slide layouts once. Exports come out as editable Word and PowerPoint files in your house style, or as a ready-made prompt for Claude, Gamma, or PlusAI.
Tested on real proposals first
Based on user testing and 10 years of proposal work. Results vary by proposal.
“This is consulting in a box. I can spend less time on tactical formatting or finding case studies, and focus more on client delivery.”
ARC, ChatGPT, or building your own
Best for
ARCProposals, research, and delivery across a firm
ChatGPTQuick one-off drafts and questions
Build it in-houseFirms with engineers and time to spare
Shared context
ARCOne workspace the whole team shares
ChatGPTEach person’s own chats; files re-uploaded each time
Build it in-houseWhatever you build and maintain
Checking the work
ARCCitations where available
ChatGPTYou verify answers yourself
Build it in-houseDepends on what you build
Model and data
ARCFirm-chosen provider; content stays in your firm’s account
ChatGPTOpenAI’s workspace terms apply
Build it in-houseFully under your control
Setup
ARCConsulting workflows ready to use
ChatGPTNothing to set up
Build it in-houseAn internal build program
Where your data goes
Your admin chooses which AI providers ARC can use and enters the firm’s own credentials. Your files, and anything ARC learns from them, stay inside your firm’s account. When ARC sends text to a model provider, that provider’s terms cover how it’s processed and stored.
Citations you can check
In supported workflows, drafts carry citations back to the documents they came from, so you can check the basis before using them.
SourcesYour choice of AI provider
Credentials and allowed models are set by the firm, not by ARC.
Firm settingStays in your firm
Your content and what ARC learns from it stay in your firm’s account. Any broader use would need a separate agreement.
Data
Why I built ARC
Ken Lam
Founder, ARC
After spending close to a decade in management consulting, I realized that the industry is on the precipice of evolution. Senior consultants undergo immense pressure to deliver top quality client service while at the same time, bringing in new business.
Solutioning a unique client problem often involved hours wasted gathering materials when AI can do it in minutes. Knowledge management should be a frictionless process.
ARC is the tool I wanted then: one workspace where a firm’s proprietary methodologies, deliverables, and case studies are easy to find, and where the next draft starts from them instead of a blank page.
Book a walkthrough with KenQuestions
A shared workspace where your firm’s past work, proposals, projects, and reusable knowledge live together, with AI doing the first draft and your consultants doing the rest.
See it on one of your own proposals
Join the waitlist for early access and founder pricing, or book a walkthrough and we’ll run ARC on one of your engagements.