AI for Government RFPs with Vishwas Lele
Episode #1947
Thursday, April 24, 2025
How can a large language model help your organization answer government RFPs? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his startup pWin, as in proposal win. Vishwas talks about being a year into the startup and his deeper understanding of how AI technologies can augment skilled operators to produce better quality products in less time, including responding to RFPs. The conversation digs into tuning the LLM to focus on the data relevant to each section of the RFP so that the operator can interact with the tool and build better responses!
Guests:

Vishwas Lele
Vishwas Lele serves as cofounder/CEO at pWin.ai. A noted industry speaker and author, Mr. Lele is the Microsoft Regional Director for Washington D.C.
Links:
- KrillianAI https://github.com/krillinai/KrillinAI
- pWin.ai https://www.pwin.ai/
- Shipley Proposal Writing https://www.shipleywins.com/courses/proposal-writing/
- Retrieval Augmented Generation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/retrieval-augmented-generation-overview?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953
- CMMC2 https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cybersecurity-maturity-model-certification-20-program
- Anthropic Paper on LLMs https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-model