Hi there,
When we founded PERSUIT back in 2016, I had no idea the many ways people would eventually use our platform.
My first attempt was a platform that only managed requests for and placement of secondments.
Let’s just say that version of PERSUIT never caught on. Talk about an epic fail 😬.
And a whack to the ego.
But then we hit upon the need to help in-house teams elicit and compare firm proposals in an “apples-to-apples” comparison.
That’s when we started to get traction. 🏎️
In an industry where work was awarded almost entirely on existing relationships, with all the inherent biases that exist in those relationships, we started to bring rigour, transparency, objectivity, and choice to the process.
And then, in time, we saw people start using PERSUIT in ways I hadn’t anticipated.
Today, there are multiple use cases we see performed on a regular basis on PERSUIT.
(One of them — that my very fragile ego is grateful for — is secondments. 😆)
Our seven most popular use cases are:
- Single-matter/project RFP (manage risk by selecting the right firm ✅)
- Portfolio/multi-matter RFP (control costs by bundling work 💼)
- Hourly rate negotiation (that painful time of year again! 😩)
- Panel or preferred firm/vendor RFP (time for a panel refresh? 🤔)
- Secondment/temporary staffing (Yippee!! 💜)
- Negotiate an AFA for existing matters (surprised? 😯)
- RFI or survey (ask your firms anything 📝)
Just this week, our product team completed a design refresh of PERSUIT’s product homepage to make it easier to access all seven of these use cases.
We did a little write-up here showing off the new process:
