About Stepscale

Helping Canadian AEC firms win more business.

Stepscale is the complete RFP response platform for architecture, engineering, and construction firms across Canada. We help your team find the right opportunities, draft proposals grounded in your past projects, and submit with confidence.

500+

Proposals run through Stepscale

20+ hrs

Saved per RFP, on average

100%

Mandatory requirements verified

Why we exist

RFP work deserves better tools.

Responding to RFPs is some of the highest-leverage work inside an AEC firm. Every bid shapes backlog, hiring, and the kinds of projects your team gets to do next.

Stepscale exists to make that work faster and stronger at every stage, whether you have a full proposals team or a few leads running bids alongside billable work.

What we do

One platform for the full RFP response workflow.

Stepscale brings RFP search, proposal drafting, and pre-submission review into a single workspace built for Canadian AEC teams.

Pipeline

Find relevant RFPs

Stepscale helps your team stay on top of relevant RFPs, RFQs, and tenders across Canada, matching opportunities to your firm’s services, past work, and target sectors so the right bids reach the right people.

Proposals

Draft winning proposals

Stepscale writes first drafts grounded in your past projects, code standards, and firm voice, so your team starts from substance instead of a blank page and finishes stronger proposals in hours, not days.

Review

Review before you submit

Every submission is checked against the RFP’s mandatory requirements, formatting rules, and internal standards, so you catch costly errors before procurement does.

Who we build for

Built for Canadian AEC teams that bid to win.

Canadian architecture, engineering, and construction firms, from boutique studios to multi-discipline practices, use Stepscale to respond to public and private sector RFPs, RFQs, and tenders. Whether you have a dedicated proposals team or principals running pursuits between billable hours, Stepscale fits the way your firm already bids.

The result: proposal turnaround measured in hours instead of days, stronger win rates on the pursuits that matter, and senior staff who get their evenings back. You stay in control of strategy, voice, and final sign-off, while Stepscale handles opportunity search, first drafts grounded in your past projects, and compliance review before submission.

Your Proposals Are Safe With Us

We take the security of your data seriously. Here’s how we protect it.

End-to-End Encryption

AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit. Your proposals never leave a secure environment.

Access Controls

Role-based permissions, SSO support, and comprehensive audit logs for every action taken on the platform.

Data Isolation & Privacy

Strict tenant isolation ensures your data is never accessible to other organizations. GDPR-ready by design.

Where to from here

The complete business development platform for Canadian AEC firms.

Share a recent opportunity, and see every step from search to first draft using your past projects.