The Proposal Stack is a newsletter for technical GovCon professionals (e.g., cloud architects, engineers, IT project managers, and cybersecurity professionals) who get pulled into proposal support and find the process opaque and frustrating.
Most proposal advice is written for proposal professionals. This newsletter is written for people who aren’t.
Each issue tackles a specific pain point: a misread solicitation section, a rewritten technical approach, a compliance trap nobody warned you about. My goal isn’t to turn you into a proposal writer. My goal is to help you contribute more effectively without losing weeks of your life to a process that wasn’t designed with you in mind.
Jerome Bridges is a transparent pseudonym for a working GovCon professional writing anonymously to speak candidly. The name is a nod to Saint Jerome, the 4th century translator who argued for sense-for-sense translation over word-for-word. That’s more or less what this newsletter tries to do.
Issues are published biweekly. Each one stands alone.