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Bonsai Proposals
IntakeAI is an AI-powered proposal generator built for freelancers, consultants, and small service businesses.
Paste a client email or project brief and IntakeAI generates a complete, professional proposal ready to send โ in under 60 seconds.
What's included in every proposal:
- Personalized scope of work based on the client's request
- Professional formatting and language
- Built-in e-signature collection
- Stripe deposit/payment collection
- Automated follow-up reminders
Additional features:
- AI Brain โ teach IntakeAI your services, pricing, and voice so proposals sound like you
- CRM to track clients and proposal status
- Calendar .ics generation for project kickoffs
- QuickBooks CSV export for bookkeeping
- File parsing โ upload documents for AI context
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IntakeAIIntakeAI's answer:
Most proposal tools make you fill out templates from scratch. IntakeAI works the opposite way paste a client's actual email or drag in an .eml file, and AI writes the entire proposal for you. It also learns your services, pricing, and tone through the AI Brain feature so every proposal sounds like you wrote it.
IntakeAI's answer:
HoneyBook, Dubsado, and Bonsai charge $24-36/mo and still make you write proposals manually. IntakeAI generates a complete
proposal from a client email in under 60 seconds, with built-in e-signatures and Stripe payment collection. One tool replaces
your proposal writing, contract signing, and deposit collection.
IntakeAI's answer:
Freelancers, consultants, and small service businesses. Web developers, graphic designers, photographers, personal trainers, hair stylists. Anyone who gets client inquiries by email and needs to turn them into professional proposals fast.
IntakeAI's answer:
I lost my tech job during the economic downturn and went back to freelancing as an indie developer. I needed a way to send
professional proposals fast without paying $36/mo for bloated tools I'd barely use. Everything out there was either too
expensive or too complicated for a solo freelancer. So I built IntakeAI for myself. Paste the client email, get a proposal, send
it, collect the deposit. That's it. No bloat, no learning curve, no features you'll never touch. So its a tool I use daily and continue to upgrade it.
IntakeAI's answer:
Next.js, React, TypeScript, OpenAI, Stripe Connect, Prisma, Neon Postgres, Clerk authentication, Vercel hosting.
Python - Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
HoneyBook - Business management reinvented.
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Smith.ai - Smith.a is one of the best virtual receptionist and chat services that offer phone calls, answer chats and take messages for you and your staff.
PHP - A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
Ruby - A dynamic, interpreted, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity