How it works
No waiting on us, no demo, no "a consultant will be in touch". You open it, you work through it, you close it with a submission pack in your hand. Then the vault does it again for every quote you send.
The sitting
Whether Ben emailed you about a tender we'd already started, or you picked one from the list in your own workspace — it's the same six steps. About an hour the first time; a lot less once the vault knows you.
From Ben's email or from your own workspace. The tender's already in there — plain-English brief, closing date, what the council actually wants, what would get you knocked out.
Every requirement is green, amber or red. Green we've covered. Amber needs strengthening. Red we need from you. Answer honestly — the gaps are the point.
A short run of questions. Licence number, insurance certificate, a referee's name. Lights flip green as you go, and the answers write themselves into the draft while you watch. The more you've done with us, the fewer there are — the vault remembers.
The council's pricing schedule, filled in with your numbers. We never suggest a price and we never take a cut of one.
Every answer under the council's own question, your logo on the cover, attachments lettered and indexed, files named the way the council named them. $149 the first time, on screen from the first click; on a plan it's one job off this month's allowance.
Always you. You log in to the council's tender portal, upload the pack and press submit — with our checklist beside you, step by step, and the receipt filed against the job. We never lodge a bid in your name and we never speak to the buyer. That's your name on the front page.
Afterwards: forward the council's emails to your workspace and every question and addendum gets filed against the job. If one's due and hasn't arrived, we nag. Nothing lands in a void.
Strong evidence on file. Nothing more needed from you for this one.
We've got something, but the council will want more. It says what, and how to fix it.
Can't be drafted without you. Usually a document, a number, or a name.
The vault
Blisters is the vault for everything worth knowing about your business. Licences, insurances, safety system, referees, past jobs, the way you actually do the work — saved once, kept current, never asked for again. Every tender, quote and proposal you send draws on it.
The first one's the hard one. By the tenth, the message reads “ready — we need one insurance cert and your price.”
We know what's public. You fill most of the gaps — an hour, honestly answered.
Most of it's already there. Twenty minutes, mostly checking.
“Ready — need one insurance cert and your price.” Ten minutes.
The same vault behind every quote and proposal — so a $40k strata job gets the same certificates, referees and methodology as a $400k council contract.
Proposals and quotes
Most of the work you win won't come through a tender portal. It's the strata manager, the school, the builder, the aged-care home — someone who wants a document, not just a price. That's where the vault earns its keep every week, not a few times a year.
Same three paragraphs about "our commitment to quality". Insurance certificate from last year, if it's attached at all. The client emails back asking for the licence number, the referees and whether you've got a safety plan. Three days go by. Someone else gets the job.
Written for this job, in your voice, from what's in the vault. Current certificates, licences, referees and safety system already attached. Scope, method, price, next step. Out the door the same day, and nothing left for the buyer to chase.
more likely to reach a decision-maker when you respond within the hour — and the average business takes 42 hours. Harvard Business Review audit of 2,241 companies
close rate when the summary is actually written for the client rather than pasted. Proposals built to that standard close at 36% against a 20% average. Published analysis of 1.3 million B2B proposals, 2025
of teams that win more than half their bids run a go/no-go check before they start. Blisters does it for you, free, on every job. Loopio & APMP, 1,500+ teams
points for methodology if the bid is non-conforming. Council conditions of tender say it plainly: a missing certificate or unsigned declaration can be set aside before anyone reads a word. Standard conditions of tender
None of that is about writing prettier. It's about arriving complete, on time, with nothing left to ask — which is exactly what a vault of your own evidence makes routine.