Responsive Customer Reviews 2026 | Proposal Management

Responsive

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

7.8 /10

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What is Responsive?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is a cloud-based response management platform and an AI-enabled solution to share knowledge, collaborate, and digitally transform their response processes. Through robust and bi-directional integrations, with an open API, teams can connect their people and improve content quality and accessibility — enabling collaboration without boundaries.

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Awards & Recognition

Responsive won the following awards in the Proposal Management category

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7 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

2025

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Strategy and Innovation

2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

6 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2023

Responsive Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Responsive?

0% Negative

4% Neutral

96% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Generous Negotitation
Transparent

Feature Ratings

Average 88

Templates

Notifications

Content Residency

E-Signature

Share & Track

Project Management Workflow

Tasks and Workflow Management

Integrations

Proposals and SOWs

Redlining

Dashboard and Analytics

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 86

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Business Value Created

Responsive Reviews

Justin G.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Finance
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Submitted Sep 2024

Responsive is an effective tool for RFPs.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Responsive from other similar products?

It is intuitive and effective for RFP management.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It gives insightful answer recommendations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I enjoy the product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For RFPs it is incredibly effective and helps manage the process efficiently.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Inata F.

Role: Operations
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2026

Great with Structured Healthcare Grants

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Responsive from other similar products?

The centralized answer library that has all approved answers allowing quick retrieval of the approved responses and this improves consistency and speed Has a strong collaboration and integration capabilities improving coordination across healthcare departments and reducing delays in completing proposals

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It reduces errors and improves consistency due to availability of a centralized library with correct policy language and standardized terminology Allows small teams to handle large workloads since it allows such teams to maintain quality under pressure, increase output without the need for more staff and lastly, small teams can manage multiple proposal at once

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is less effective for narrative heavy grants writing as it is optimized for structured question and answers

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Combine it with string writing tools for narrative parts, rely on other tools for storytelling and program design while you use Responsive for compliance section and structured responses

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Yoel B.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2024

Good overall value, but tricky UX, ramp up in AI

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Responsive from other similar products?

The knowledge base and answer suggestions.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Answer suggestions, bulk AI answering, knowledge base addons

What do you dislike most about this product?

UX, long tech adoption

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Do a first project and you will quickly find all pros and cons.

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Caring
Respectful

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Responsive Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Responsive?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Templates Tool provides a set of pre-made templates you can use and distribute instead of creating new ones for every situation.

Notifications Tool alerts business of an application generated event.

Content Residency Vendor ability to store content via library to centralize, deduplicate, link, and manage answers to "common" RFx questions.

E-Signature Native e-signature capabilities and/or integrations to 3rd party e-signature solutions.

Share & Track Share proposals with prospects, tracking the engagement and activity, also offering audit trails.

Project Management Workflow Enabling tracking of end-end processes to complete an RFx response achieving import/export functionalities and automating project intake/delivery.

Tasks and Workflow Management Includes the ability to assign tasks to project personnel and automate workflow between users with control points and sign-offs.

Integrations The workplace platform integrates with common business applications in which users do their work, such as Office 365, G-Suite, Salesforce, and Zendesk.

Proposals and SOWs Management of monetary RFP proposals and statements of work that track and outline project deliverables between buyers and sellers.

Redlining Ability to redline agreements, with version control, and across various document formats.

Dashboard and Analytics Configurable, click though, real-time dashboards for in-progress and executed contracts.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Responsive Reviews

Justin G.

Responsive is an effective tool for RFPs.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Inata F.

Great with Structured Healthcare Grants

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Yoel B.

Good overall value, but tricky UX, ramp up in AI

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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